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I agree it was more like a riot... fanboys, scriptkiddies, and general idiot youngsters all chomping at the bit to stick it to the man while bucking against the system that says you can't disseminate an alphanumeric string.

And regarding the "you can't copyright a hex string" nonsense- you sure as shit can. What do you think every form of digital media IS? Music, video, it's all just strings of numbers and letters- and you're all very familiar with just how copyrighted those are.

The reality is, 99.2% of all the wastes of space who participated in this revolt would never in a million years be clever or smart enough to have found the hex code themselves, yet claim the royal "we" when they say "fuck the MPAA, we have the hex code now!"

The oddest disconnect I see in this is the overwhelming suspension of logic these people undertake. I mean, I hate the MPAA as much as the next person, but hating the MPAA doesn't make me suddenly blind and stupid to the reality of the DMCA law- something which most of these anti-MPAA people are. Just because you hate their methods and everything they stand for doesn't suddenly nullify or blink out of existence the DMCA law that says it's illegal to share the codes.

Even POT HEADS aren't dumb enough to think that disagreement with a law means you can break it all you want without consequence. Sheesh.