You Can Encrypt, But We Can Decrypt

It’s amazing: I’ve seen over 12 articles today on Digg about this so-called magical number. I’m not really sure what it does per say, but it’s all the rage. Sorry MPAA, you can’t touch this.

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

But in all reality, it’s not so much the fact that the code is now publicly known, but it is more of a symbolic message from the Internet community screaming “we hate DRM” (and less of “we like to rip off corporations”).

I think that it is great that iTunes is now offering DRM-free higher-bitrate songs, even if Apple is just doing it for the publicity. It will encourage people to stop pirating music and support the artists they like in yet another way.

People like knowing that they now own the music they paid for, and that even if they break their iPod, or if iTMS implodes, or they switch to Dell’s new Linux-based machine, that their music will still play without hassles. They merely want the same for their movies.