When a hacker unearthed the string of 32 digits and letters that comprise a new antipiracy code,

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When a hacker unearthed the string of 32 digits and letters that comprise a new antipiracy code, AACS, from his movie-playing software in February 2007, he posted it on a Web bulletin board. The code spread among tech-savvy users via blogs and technology Web sites.

When the code’s owner (the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator), sent notices to “cease and desist” posting the code in violation of the DMCA, the hacker community resisted. One 24-year-old musician improvised a melody to accompany his singing of the code and posted his song to YouTube. A Washington engineer created a Web page featuring the code, “obscured in an encrypted format that only insiders could appreciate.”

Is this, in the words of one news reporter, “a lesson in mob power on the Internet and the futility of censorship in the digital world”?

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Law And Ethics In The Business Environment

ISBN: 9780324657326

6th Edition

Authors: Terry Halbert , Elaine Ingulli

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