Part 5 of this, here, has a long summary of the situation. Part 5 has also made it to Digg, here. This post will be added to that one.
Bloggers “crossed the line” when they posted a software key that could break the encryption on some HD-DVDs, the AACS copy protection body has said.
According to the BBC, anyway. The article has one great quote in it:
Michael Ayers, chair of the AACS business group, said it had received “good cooperation from most folk” in preventing the leak of the key.
Er, yeah. Keep up the good work. Last time I checked a full Google search for the hex code it was up to 720,000, from the original one on Doom9.
