AACS starts sending take down notices over Processing Key
According to Chilling Effects the take down notices have started flowing in the latest round of battle over the HD format. More information about AACS can be found on Ed Felten’s Blog series:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Alex wrote on Thursday about the next step in the breakdown of AACS, the encryption scheme used on next-gen DVD discs (HD-DVD and Blu-ray): last week a person named Arnezami discovered and published a processing key that apparently can be used to decrypt all existing discs.
The notice will be posted here in its entirety
Sender Information:
Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA)
Sent by: [Private]
Proskauer Rose LLP
New York, NY, 10038, USA
Recipient Information:
[Private]
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy.
Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA
Sent via: express mail
Re: Illegal Offering of Processing Key to Circumvent AACS Copyright Protection
http://uscpwned.blogspot.com/2007/02/hol…
http://linuxnotes.blogspot.com/2007/02/0…
http://simonsta.blogspot.com/2007/02/los…
http://cronicasredux.blogspot.com/2007/0…]
Dear Google Inc.
We represent Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA), developer, proprietor and licensor of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS). AACS is an integrated set of technological protection measures that controls access to and prevents unauthorized copying of copyrighted motion pictures embodied on high definition DVDs.
It is our understanding that you are providing to the public the above-identified tools and services at the above referenced URL, and are thereby providing and offering to the public a technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that is primarily designed, produced, or marketed for the purpose of circumventing the technological protection measures afforded by AACS (hereafter, the “circumvention offering”). Doing so constitutes a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1). Providing or offering the circumvention offering identified above, and any other such offering that is primarily designed or produced to circumvent protection measures, or which has only limited commercial significant purpose other than to circumvent, or which are offered to the public with knowledge that it is for use in circumventing, violates the rights of AACS and any others harmed as well. See §§ 1201(a)(2), 1201(b)(1), and 1203.
In view of the foregoing apparent anti-circumvention violations, we demand that you immediately:
1) remove or cause to be removed the above-specified AACS circumvention offering and any other circumvention offering which is designed, produced or provided to circumvent AACS or to assist others in doing so, and/or any links directly thereto, from the URL identified above and from any other forum or website on which you have provided any circumvention offering; and
2) refrain from posting or causing to be provided any AACS circumvention offering or from assisting others in doing so, including by direct links thereto, on any website now or at any time in the future.
Failure to do so will subject you to legal liability.
Please confirm to the undersigned in writing no later than noon a week from the above-indicated date that you have complied with these demands. You may reach the undersigned by telephone at [private] or by email at [private]@proskauer.com. AACS LA reserves all further rights and remedies with respect to this matter.
Very truly yours,
[private]
Counsel for AACS LA
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zeroday wrote:
Interesting conversation taking place on wikipedia
Have you given thought to the fact that so many people are creating pages such as the one you just deleted, that maybe it is of relevance? –142.68.40.44 03:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Regardless if it is popular or not, we cannot host the key on here and the Foundation has asked us to remove it on sight. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:57, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I’m glad to know that the party line is just being towed. Would you mind stepping in Wikipedia:Deletion_review, subheading 09_F9_11… (i’m sure you’ll recognize it) and make it known that it won’t become undeleted? Thanks. –142.68.40.44 04:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
To be clear, rather than the “Foundation” per se, a pretty clear consensus of en-admins have concluded it likely runs afoul of the DMCA. That is, there is a reason Digg did what they are doing. — Fuzheado | Talk 04:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Well Digg’s doing nothing right now. However, wouldn’t the decision regarding the DMCA be left up to WP-OFFICE? Worse comes to worse Wikipedia gets a DMCA notice and it gets taken down. –142.68.40.44 04:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
We are not Digg, we are not slashdot and it was a decisions made by other admins that we should keep the code off until we speak to someone who knows about the DCMA. I do not want this site to go down over a string of text. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:09, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Any idea on an ETA for that? 142.68.40.44 04:10, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I have no idea. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:12, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Possible to ask the fellow admins in irc? –142.68.40.44 04:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Been doing that since 7 PM pacific time zone (and been on IRC for almost 3 hours). User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
The admins have been all on the same page (no pun intended) for this matter, given previous experience and brief evaluation of the law (even though they are not lawyers per se). WP:OFFICE is not an issue here. — Fuzheado | Talk 05:07, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Posted on 02-May-07 at 1:13 am | Permalink
Matt wrote:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 and What it Stands For…
What's so important about that 128bit hex string? Well that just happens to be the processing key…
Posted on 07-May-07 at 11:36 am | Permalink