“Takedown This!”
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Thursday May 3rd, 2007 @ 10:32 AM
Filed under: Body Modification, Geek, News, Politics, Tattoos, Text
[see also: on ModBlog or on Digg if you don't get the context]
So… how do you DMCA a tattoo off of a person? Am I allowed to tell people that it’s a “09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 tattoo”? Is a magazine permitted to print photos of this tattoo? Can the tattoo artist or shop (Good Faith Tattoos, Boston) be sued? Can the person wearing the tattoo be sued? Can a corporation force a medical procedure (a tattoo removal)? Can they force him to always wear a shirt? Well, Rich from The New Freedom has decided to be the bait!
Edit: I’ve been told to submit this to Digg, but because (continuing in the “Digg loves censorship” meme) Digg has banned its users from linking to ModBlog because they find the content offensive, so it’s not gonna happen.
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62 Responses to ““Takedown This!””
that was quick, let’s see how it goes!
Melody on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 am2nd post in a historic thread
ted on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 amholy moly go son!
Snoogans on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 ami can almost imagine a judge ordering a tattoo removal these days… and did he just go out and get that done yesterday?
trailerparkray on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 amMay the Schwartz be with him.
VikingValkyrie on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 amgood luck to him, see how the feckers deal with that
the-tick on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:55 amhaha he is great :D
derkaiser on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:56 amSecret AACS numbers, the photoshopped edition…
Wired News has a gallery of the lovely photoshops of the notorious AACS “secret key,” a 16-digit number that is illegal to possess and disseminate. AACS is the anti-copying system built into HD-DVDs (and you’re out of your mind if you buy one of th…
Boing Boing on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:03 amis someone able to please explain this for me? huh whaaaatt???
mung on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 amfecking WONDERFUL! i officially love this guy, i hope he keeps us updated ;)
ladytwiglet on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 am#8. just scroll down till you come to the best riddle or ask dig.com.
the story of that number goes around the world. we will see where it will lead.
redredred on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:19 amhaha amazing!
u-lock justice on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 ami wonder how he’ll explain it in a year or two, either way legendary.
[...] Hehe.. if you havent been following the secret numbers fiasco.. it just moved up a notch.. someone had the magic numbers tattooed on their chest.. Gold.. pure gold [...]
Dunc Nuggets » Blog Archive » AACS Key.. Takedown this! on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 amThe voice of pessimism here, but I’m not convinced that’s real…
Nikkibunny on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:40 amI’m having it tattooed on my arm tonight, too :)
RooRaaah Crumbs on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 amCould someone clear this up for me, please?
Is this the code to put into DVD players to make them region free so they can play any DVD from any region?
If it’s not that, then what is it? I’ve read the modblog entries and all the other links, but I just can’t put the pieces together…
Chrissie (Australia) on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 amLovin the fact that this lil number *well not soo lil* is gettin around so much *lol*
Squibbles on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:56 amShame the face is a partially missing…ah well
@Chrissie (#13): This seemingly arbitrary number/letter combination represents a HD-DVD encryption key that got hacked recently (it’s hexadecimal), thus allowing people to bypass the DRM built into the format, enabling them to copy the content.
Bastian on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 pmThe content industry is trying to prevent this code snippet from being distributed with all the legal guns that are available, mostly taking down websites.
It`s history repeating - exactly what happened with DeCSS - the DVD copy protection - a few years ago.
Google the code and you’ll see….
[...] I think everyone should be pretty familiar with the hot AACS “secret key”, which triggered user revolt on Digg. The story started, as someone posted a story on Digg about the secret key that could actually crack the HD-DVD AACS anti-copying system, but Digg took it down, then triggered the user revolt to get it back on. What else, it’s claimed to be illegal now for possessing or desseminating the secrey key, as AACS LA will be sending legal threat to those sites for holding it and even threatened Google to stop indexing those web pages that have the keys. When writing this post, I did have a pause, thinking if I shall host the picture on this blog here, which I found it on Boing-Boing. I didn’t know and didn’t pay much intention about the news that AACS LA would take actions on sites that show the keys. Anyway, I’ve already had two screenshots captured of Digg, which shows pretty clear of the secret numbers. According to Boing-Boing, there are about 368,000 pages contain the number, up from 3,600 yesterday. Someone, even more daring, had a tattoo on his hairy chest, as shown in the picture above. Goldcoaster got one that is pretty interesting too, the key on a t-shirt. So what? It’s now more than a third of a million indexed on Google, and it’s now everywhere over the Internet, lets see what the AACS LA can do about it! AACS claimed that the HD-DVD is unbreakable. Of course, if you break it, they’ll threaten too sue, that’s it! [...]
Gadget, shop online » AACS Secret key catch-up! Tattoo on hairy chest! , Blog Archive by TechChee.com on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 pmI was confused until post #18,19
Thats kind of a big deal for him to have that shit on his chest. I wonder what will happen to him if anything, I mean obviously the AACS is going to have alot of shit to deal with over this but I just wonder what they can do about someone having the code tattooed on them
Joe on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:26 pmsweeeeeet
katie on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:50 pmIt seems to me that the code is open now anyway, the tattoo does no longer add anything to that.
dutchweirdo on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 pmThis is so fucking epic.
Kenna on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:37 pmTakedown, heh
stupidcore on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 pmI somehow can’t see anything being done about this…
Naomi on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:58 pmhahah. Hooray for rebellion.
BendtheGlass on May 3rd, 2007 at 4:04 pmI would imagine that if they tried to have him remove the number in court, that it could be classified as cruel and unusual punishment. Tattoo removal surgery is supposedly VERY painful
jordo on May 3rd, 2007 at 4:33 pmwow like a fuckin day later!
rori on May 3rd, 2007 at 4:52 pmi read that entry, i went to work and 13 hours later i read mod blog again
and here it is!
tattooed already…sick
I submitted the story to Digg. Everyone, please digg the story and get it to the frontpage! :D
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Someone_got_09_f9_11_02_9d_74_e3_5b_d8_41_56_c5_63_56_88_c0_as_a_tattoo
Jordan Meeter on May 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 pmhey dude, you got one of the numbers wrong and out of order. ill leave it to you to figure out which one!
jason miller on May 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm. . . I think I recognize that face… and that bathroom :O
mike on May 3rd, 2007 at 5:38 pm[...] 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0? Picture by BMEzine [...]
09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0? « Blog of too many things on May 3rd, 2007 at 6:18 pmToo bad the key no longer works for new titles…
danakin on May 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 pmThe Digg users weren’t all that uptight about it until Alex Jones of infowars.com and Prisonplanet.tv began bitching to their subscribers calling the issue censorship. Oddly when I posted a link in response- that proved Alex Jones is likely a conspiracy propaganda plant by the government and the catholic church:
http://spirituallysmart.com/pics.htm#Charlie%20Sheen%20and%20Alex%20Jones
I thoroughly researched the info and its is indesputable- then posted a comment on both infowars and prisonplanet- within 10 minutes my post was deleted!
Talk about the pot calling the tea kettle black!
Darrell Kern on May 3rd, 2007 at 6:53 pmDude, shave off the rest of the chest pelt. Otherwise the reverse chest-mohawk looks freaky.
docmarvy on May 3rd, 2007 at 6:54 pmwow, i love the tattoo and the concept.
gillian gamine on May 3rd, 2007 at 8:50 pmtoo bad that’s pointless now
Serulean on May 3rd, 2007 at 9:35 pmPerhaps if you still want this dugg, digg the original blog post here:
http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2007/05/02/takedown-this/
R on May 3rd, 2007 at 9:40 pmMan, sucks to be this guy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070416/tc_infoworld/87720
MattWhoArtYouz on May 3rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm09-f9-11 etc…
I was just reading an article on the NY Times concerning the HD DVD hex code controversy, and I managed……
skitz.org on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm[...] Update 2: A tattoo was, I suppose, inevitable. (Thanks, Shannon!) [...]
Tuzworld » Archive » Secret AACS numbers, the photoshopped edition on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:30 pm[...] Yes - you read it here first (well, second if you’re a modBlog reader) - 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 has been tattoo’d on! [...]
[frantic][crowded][south] » HD-DVD code tattooo! on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 pmsoooo awesome. and this boy looks very yummy.
dani on May 4th, 2007 at 12:24 amLooks like it’s drawn on with a pen… just my opinion, but…
molex on May 4th, 2007 at 12:50 amseriously? wow, I kindof hated digg anyway but this takes the cake.
ella on May 4th, 2007 at 1:03 ami doubt it will do much, but just so you know shannon i sent digg a message telling them of my disgust of them being offended by the mod world and that i would from this point on boycott there site.
sae on May 4th, 2007 at 3:08 amit has to start somewhere
it has to start sometime
oh man modblog is banned from digg?
thats fucking tragic
kiana t. on May 4th, 2007 at 5:55 am[...] All the cool kids are doing it… [...]
wastrel magazine » Blog Archive » All The Cool Kids Are Doing It… on May 4th, 2007 at 6:37 amNur ein paar Zeichen…..
Eigentlich ist die folgende Zeichenfolge an sich komplett harmlos:09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0Und doch ist sie vermeintlich so brisant, dass es Leute gibt, die sich die Frage stellen, ob ein Tattoo dieser Zeichenfolge auf Grund einer…
Verstand in Gefahr?! on May 4th, 2007 at 9:33 am[...] Wehren sich die User? - Ein Überblick über die Verbreitung des HD-DVD-Cracks 4 05 2007 Neulich sprach ich ja schon an, dass sich die Nutzer von Digg gegen die auferlegte Zensur gewehrt hatten. Nun scheint es so, als hätte die Nachricht, dass die User etwas durchgesetzt haben das Netz auf eine gewisse Art und Weise durchflutet, denn man sieht Leute, die den Code in Kommentaren posten oder einen ganzen Artikel im Zeichen des Codes schreiben. Auch verrückt wie dieser Code schon jetzt vermarktet wird, so gibt es T-Shirts und auch Tassen, sowie Magnete. Und der Typ hier hat sich den Code sogar auf die Brust tätowiert. [...]
Wehren sich die User? - Ein Überblick über die Verbreitung des HD-DVD-Cracks « golBlog - Alles rund um Multimedia on May 4th, 2007 at 12:45 pmThats great. Maybe we should take the chance to org some demos
Fun Blog on May 4th, 2007 at 1:02 pm[...] EDIT: Nun gut- manche übertreiben es dann auch - siehe hier. [...]
AACS Wallpaper + Nachtrag - Das3Zehn Blog on May 4th, 2007 at 11:04 pmsweet!
Madvillain on May 4th, 2007 at 11:15 pmHas anyone seen this I wonder?
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
molex on May 5th, 2007 at 4:24 am[...] “Takedown This!” - “So… how do you DMCA a tattoo off of a person? Am I allowed to tell people that it’s a “09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 tattoo”?” [...]
… piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged … » Blog Archive » ruff linkage . 200718 on May 5th, 2007 at 7:20 am[...] Mehr als nur genial. Mal schauen ob man auch ein Video verklagen kann das die Nummern benutzt. Das weglasern kann man wohl nicht erzwingen, zumindest hat es bis dato noch keiner versucht. [...]
JSPs bLog » Galacticast präsentiert Found on May 8th, 2007 at 8:15 am[...] The resulting uproar when certain sites like DIGG removed posts containing the key at the behest of the media corporations, set the web alight for a good few days and the fires are still burning — DIGG’s latest posts. What followed was a whole host of riffs using the code; monkey cartoons, t-shirts and even tatoo’s. The bandwagon was a little too fast for any kind of reaction on my part, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t figure something out with a little hindsight. [...]
Numbered Days at FICTIONMONSTER on May 10th, 2007 at 11:19 pmf*** the system right on man right on
red_eyes on May 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pmGreat story-much respect.
Covered and linked to
http://www.gadgetspy.co.uk/2007/05/17/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Gonzo.pete on May 21st, 2007 at 7:36 pmThe way I see it they can’t tuch anyone for the color of their skin. Any atempt to do so is pure rasism. So no it’s said.
Joakim Siljelind on June 10th, 2007 at 11:40 amIt does look kinda funky… like photoshoped in.
Didnt do it on August 1st, 2007 at 6:52 am[...] als nur genial. Mal schauen ob man auch ein Video verklagen kann das die Nummern benutzt. Das weglasern kann man wohl nicht erzwingen, zumindest hat es bis dato noch keiner [...]
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