Incase you don't travel the tech-savy circles of the internet, there's currently some business going on with the key that has been used by most HD-DVD disks released thus far. The key was released accidentally, and it's all over the place now.
Apparently, someone in the know can use this key to get around all the encryption present on these HD-DVD's, and do what they like with them. Which I wholly support. A lot of sites, including Digg and Google are bending to get away from this number.
Anyway, the whole thing presents a plethora of angles for commentary, but the one I'm really interested in: Can you copyright a number? The answer, at least for now, appears to be "Yes, if you're an asshole." In light of this, while I've unfortunately found prior art for the number '9', there are several other numbers I'm currently applying for copyrights on.
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