Spread this number
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
What do those numbers mean, and why are they so important? That number is the HD-DVD processing key for most movies released so far.
This means that using this key, you can decrypt and watch movies on Linux (if you have software available). But that’s not the most important part. The Movie Industry is threatening a blog for publishing this number. They claim “copyright infringement” (no doubt, under some ridiculous abuse of the DMCA). I had no idea that a number could be copyrighted.
This information is out on the web and it is spreading fast. The Movie Industry doesn’t like this and is trying to threaten people into silence. Digg deleted the original story, and then censored a second submission on the same topic. But there is a very interesting story in the Health section of Digg that deals with training your memory by memorizing a string of 32 alphanumeric characters…
SPREAD THIS NUMBER.
Let the Movie Industry know that they cannot silence us. If one person or website goes down, ten others will spring up in its place. We cracked the copyright protection system on DVD’s and it’s only a matter of time before we do the same to HD-DVD’s and BlueRay discs. The fact that the encryption system was cracked on DVD’s is the only reason we can play DVD’s on Linux now. The Movie Industry will have you believe that we are a bunch of evil pirates. Nothing is further from the truth. In fact, DRM does nothing to thwart piracy. The existence of a large supply of pirated DVD’s is ample proof of that. Anything that can be seen or heard can be copied. Once I buy my DVD, or HD-DVD or BlueRay, I can do whatever the hell I want to do with it. It’s my property. I paid for it. I can make as many copies as I want for personal use. They can’t tell me what to do. And that’s what this is all about.
Once again. Spread this number.
Here are links with more information. I initially found out about this story from Slashdot.
- Slashdot Article: Censoring a Number
- Rudd-O.com: Spread this number (The original “Spread this number” – where the campaign started!)
- wired.com: The New HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Hack: What It Might Mean For Us
- Proof of concept code at doom9
- BackupHDDVD
Update
Ok, so check this out. They sent a cease and desist letter to Google for providing search results that show the key. I seriously wonder how much more retarded these people can get.
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How to get AimExpress working on Mozilla, running on a Linux Box
So, I was at work and I was using AimExpress on the Windows side. I have Exceed running and I was working on some scripts on the AIX box. I didn’t want to switch back and forth, so I tried running AimExpress on Mozilla. This is Mozilla 1.6, and the website says that it supports Mozilla 1.4 and up. So I try to run it, and of course, it doesn’t work! It says the browser is unsupported! I look all over for documentation on this, but can’t find any. I guess no one has tried to do this.
This bothered me a lot, so I tried getting past it. I closed AimExpress on the Windows side and restarted it. When the login screen came up, I looked at the properties and found the URL for it. I used that in Mozilla and the login screen came up! Schweet! I logged in, but then I got the unsupported browser error… I wasn’t sure what to do… I knew that AimExpress ran on IE as some sort of DHTML application… If I was just able to get the address of the page, I was pretty sure I could run it on Mozilla by accessing that page directly. But they had disabled the context menu on the app, so there was no way I could find anything. There wasn’t even a menu bar. So I looked to see if there were any shortcut keys to View Source or Properties, or anything like that. I saw F11 for Full Screen. So just for the hell of it, I tried it out. And Voila! There was an address bar on the top, and I could see the address!
I took the address and put it in Mozilla. I accessed the page and I got the sign-on thing again. I signed in and I got the stupid “Unsupported Browser” page again. Then I figured they are definitely using cookies (or sessions), so I accessed the AIM DHTML App page again and BINGO! I was logged in! 
Hehehe… I was so proud of myself!
Anyway, so here are the steps:
1. Fire up Mozilla and enter http://aimexpress.aim.com/BuddyList.svc in the address bar.
2. Log in. It will come up with an error page. Don’t worry. Enter http://aimexpress.aim.com/BuddyList.svc in the address bar again.
3. AimExpress should be up and running! Enjoy!
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. CRAAAAAP!