I love all this hype about the magical number used for circumventing HD-DVD DRM. I'd love to see the faces on the big execs as these numbers fly onto every banner, blog, podcast, site etc... This moment was bound to happen sooner or later, and if Hollywood execs thought any DRM was immune to reverse-engineering, they were having a bad dream from the start. These cease & desist letters sent out by the AACS won't persist when every independent web content publisher & their brother posts this hexadecimal string on their site. Just keep smoking while we all shoot the bird >:)

For a full, detailed recap of the entire debacle concerning HD-DVD circumvention, visit ValleyWag or even Wired News . It's great to see such an established media firm like Digg.com, and its thousands of users that drive it, stand up to the DCMA and AACS. It's one thing to bet (**and possibly forfeit) the existence of a personal home server for a noble cause, but it takes a lot of gonads to take successful web startup like Digg and pit it against organizations like the DCMA & AACS. Kevin Rose has some balls...

The hex- code itself is published on the left, along with a warm hello from everyone's favorite friends, the Mooninites.