March 29, 2024

You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here

Remember last week’s kerfuffle over whether the movie industry could own random 128-bit numbers? (If not, here’s some background: 1, 2, 3)

Now, thanks to our newly developed VirtualLandGrab technology, you can own a 128-bit integer of your very own.

Here’s how we do it. First, we generate a fresh pseudorandom integer, just for you. Then we use your integer to encrypt a copyrighted haiku, thereby transforming your integer into a circumvention device capable of decrypting the haiku without your permission. We then give you all of our rights to decrypt the haiku using your integer. The DMCA does the rest.

The haiku is copyright 2007 by Edward W. Felten:

We own integers,
Says AACS LA.
You can own one too.

Here is your very own 128-bit integer, which we hereby deed to you:

[can’t display integer]

If you’d like another integer, just hit Shift-Reload, and we’ll make a fresh one for you. Make as many as you want! Did we mention that a shiny new integer would make a perfect Mother’s Day gift?

If you like our service, you can upgrade for a low annual fee to VirtualLandGrab Gold – and claim thousands of integers with a single click!

Comments

  1. w00t!
    48 B7 4F 49 5A 1A 2A 62 5E BF 5C DE 7C B7 8A 64

    It’s all mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. The biggest problem with owning the number is, they actually distributed it in some form in their software…

    Also if you want to use a 128bit prime key, it is commercially significant to others, everyone that wants security wants a very long prime number as a key. So yeah they spent computing power calculating a prime number (I.E. incrementing and recursively calculating factors), but technically it’s really the algorithm that they use it in that gives it any significance. In another algorithm it may have different meaning.

  3. will you be keeping track of issued integers so that no two persons get the same one and also for trace if one would want to enforce the ownership 😛

    🙂

  4. will you be keeping track of issued integers so that no two persons get the same one and also for trace if one would want to enforce the ownership 😛

  5. 70 FF 40 06 50 7C C7 79 1A D2 20 A3 7E 2A A8 65

  6. 42 71 76 FE 20 71 5A A9 4B 4C 6A 2C 36 D6 1C 15 my precious!

  7. MKBv4 is now cracked. Ironically, about three weeks elapsed between the new discs appearing, and it being cracked – which accords with the interval predicted in this blog some time ago.

    There also appears to be a error whereby if a user (aacs) decrypts a bd+ movie and copies the decrypted content plus the relevant bd+ files to their hdd, at least one player will play that content. It appears to run it through the bd+ engine, and without getting suspicious of unencrypted content bundled with bd+ being played from the hdd.

  8. mike huett says

    just googled myself and found this…v funny.

  9. i got 51 E9 8E 1C 16 E4 7A BE 00 B8 35 37 2A 32 65 AD

  10. odds on MKBv4 128-bit integer being generated here first??? maybe… ???

  11. 1D 3F E4 A5 0F 6B 8C 00 63 58 34 68 4E D2 DA 3A

    MINE.

  12. I am 0F E1 46 1A 0B F4 04 BB 31 7A 7B 20 44 1B 66 DC says

    I feel so special

  13. Hey wait that’s my number

  14. call me im gay

    7279674839

  15. 71 AB 03 06 72 C9 E4 CA 47 D7 4E 5D 0B 08 12 8C

    Its mine…..touch it and I sue!!!!!

  16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/09_F9

    So would a shirt with this number on it be legal? Is my anti dmca shirt with the DVD decryption algorithm still illegal?

  17. Marina Angeli says

    These two are mine:

    30 AC 50 02 61 40 97 46 23 40 32 F3 52 FF 84 B5

    2D 6C CB D0 38 29 D1 E0 1D EE 88 99 15 CC DA 2C

  18. Dick Alstein says

    Ed Felten: “According to our crack legal staff, part of what makes the number yours is that it has limited commercially significant uses other than to circumvent. That’s not true about 21 or zero.”

    Well, if 21 has commercially significant uses, then so has 22, since it’s so close to 21. And so do 23, 24, 25, ….

    Before you know it, you’ll be at fe61a7fd2fda93bf490b6187dd55c477.

  19. I hereby arbitrarily claim three key numbers that I have used in encrypting content:

    2A 06 85 95 6F 42 9C 05 30 34 B8 86 7F 5C D9 90

    ahhhhhhhhhhhh.. the world is now a safer place.

  20. I’ll take it:

    1A DF 39 98 34 B5 99 87 66 6E D2 C1 25 A8 EB 4E

  21. Vitor Espíndola says

    This is mine:

    09 B4 DB 0E 4F B5 14 A1 3F 53 CB 85 0B 60 E0 16

    E ninguém taska!

  22. Mr. C#$ouPrwn says

    This is mine:
    08 59 90 8E 48 8A 3C FA 54 B2 9A A0 6D DF 81 6A

  23. “00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
    FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF”

    What? Zero, one, and minus one? Nobody can lay claim to those, surely!

  24. 76 34 D4 DB 35 32 20 D3 1F 77 81 33 27 4C BB 7E
    Copyright 2007 Andrew Foss, All rights reserved.

    Oh, and

    FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FE
    Copyright 2007 Andrew Foss, All rights reserved.

  25. X the Unknown says

    Oops – looks like Captain Capacitor beat me to it – I owe him royalties. However, I maintain my ownership of:
    FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

  26. X the Unknown says

    I hereby arbitrarily claim three key numbers that I have used in encrypting content:

    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
    FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

    Anyone using these numbers is in violation.
    Bwa-ha-ha-ha

  27. fellowSMF says

    C2 😉

  28. fellowSMF says

    C8 C9 D2 CF C1 C7 CF D4 D9 CF D5 D2 CD C1 C9 CC

    C2 D5 D4 C4 CF CE D4 C8 CF CC CC CF D7 D9 C5 D4

  29. jetrunner says

    11 A0 9B AF 07 C0 E0 BD 69 F3 E7 0B 63 68 7F 19 – my holy gral

  30. Strangely but Surely says

    Tell me your going to put the poem on Ebay for $128million just for fun, fuck it ill even pay the site fee

    P.S. if this has all ready been suggested I’m sorry for the reproduction of authentic works hereby pertaining to pending legal rights regarding copyrighting intellectual property/circumvention devices of intellectual property/works not resembling but neither legally distinct from intellectual property/numbers used to rob idiots… *ducks and cowers in sudden realiseation of future prosecution* I’ve done it now… please don’t sue I’m to young to go to jail… *sobs in sheer hopelessness*

  31. hex hater says

    i here by lay claim to “F”

    pay up forth with!

  32. Scott Drummer says

    This one’s mine. 23 6C 4E A3 76 90 BD F3 06 08 B6 FB 4F 82 08 7A
    I’m going to put it in my will. My wife and each of my kids can have 32 of the bits.

  33. Cesar Bravo says

    10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 00
    IT is mine now.

    Any use or publication of this number without my written consent is prohibited.

  34. How twisted, Boris. Not to mention offtopic.

    [Boris’s comment was spam, so I removed it. — Ed]

  35. 16 FE 9A 62 1F 8F 83 88 7A AF 28 4C 2E A6 D8 DE
    Mine, please do not use it’s copyrighted. Thanx

  36. Paul M. Stuart says

    I hereby declare ownership of a very special number which I will not post because it encrypts extremely sensitive data susceptible to cause Armageddon (such as photos of me in a bathing suit or other seeeecret things i cannot tell you about but you would really want to know about) but because I need money I will post my integer to sue you all and your mothers will go to jail and your girlfriends will die in very painful and ticklish conditions and your children will perish under my blade and I like potatoes and how do you do and your mozzer waaahs ah ‘amster and yohre fazzer smelt ov eldehberrrreeze and a moose once bit my sister do you like Norway it is full of mooses and it has a wonderful telephone system go to Normway see the pretty lakes and the mooses but beware of moose bites they are very painful: 01 D5 44 A5 3B 33 20 F9 49 C7 22 B8 2C 88 69 E9

    Paul

  37. Well – that’s not my integer, but mine is similar.

    39 76 19 CD 4E AD BB 4A 6F 79 CF 8E 6B 1A 60 15

    So be careful!

  38. My integer says

    3D 3A 0D 6E 03 AF FE D4 05 38 4F C1 33 1C E0 26

  39. Matt Hiller says

    5E FD E4 18 49 4A 75 DE 2F FB 8A DB 3B E9 1B 60
    Well, this one’s mine, but I claim it only for Europe, Africa and Asia. America’s doing what they want, anyway. Forget about them.
    Matt

  40. All your 7A C5 92 1E 07 FB 6F 5C 50 40 79 5C 3F 39 91 1E are belong to me.

  41. Bletch. Apparently there’s two scoops of VB in every package of mrblue’s forum posts. Now please excuse me while I go throw up, inject a titer of antibiotics, and shower for 6 hours — there’s a reason VB rhymes with TB y’know.

    I’ll bet it was that especially communicable .net strain too.

    I think I’ll go tinker with Sun’s Java tools for a bit now — it’s the only known antidote to toxic .net exposure.

  42. 25 9D B7 08 40 DD F4 09 55 EC EF 83 3F 18 9F 33

    That’s right my own number!

  43. I am copyrighting this one AND patenting it. so thar.

    54 9B 2B 67 77 82 0F F4 09 80 D1 5E 26 15 E9 5C

  44. xcrissxcrossx says

    49 D3 82 AC 45 9F 02 CD 85 23 3A 14 BB 51 03 EA is my number, and only mine.

  45. Here’s mine 😉

    73 8B 88 83 1C C2 76 2C 6B 4C 8B 03 40 6A F7 06

  46. 64 FC D6 95 55 38 A9 83 48 51 6E 0D 35 CF D4 CC

    Mine. All MINE!

  47. cyberbob says

    My brand new 128-bit WEP Key in its psuedorandom glory:

    62 F1 AF AA 42 35 18 96 5D 31 1D E0 4F DA ED 86

    Now I can feel safe that my WiFi is equally as safe as the data on my HD-DVDs.

  48. Use this 20 27 C0 98 1F A8 23 76 30 05 73 4A 19 72 3E 93
    And I’ll sue!

  49. BINGO!

  50. 35 EC 96 9F 6A 4A 0C 10 2C AC C4 7D 5D 0B 73 4D
    57 77 67 D5 18 86 E2 20 33 21 FB F3 07 A5 89 8B
    72 C4 AC C6 44 01 96 94 31 30 F9 11 12 80 16 EC
    59 BC A4 06 34 F8 2F B6 3F 87 6D C1 19 F2 A6 6E
    09 BB 99 7E 7E 0D 2D F9 53 29 FF 64 3D EC 14 F4
    I have my own, but take these

  51. Todd Jonz says

    > check that BtCB didn’t get his number from this site

    Who’s to say he didn’t? After all, it’s just another 16-byte number.

    Assuming that he did, who does the AACS-LA sue, BtCB or Ed?

  52. Anonymous says

    Are these numbers purely random?
    If not is there any way to figure out what numbers are given out?
    If so, check that BtCB didn’t get his number from this site, If he did that is truly amazing.

  53. BtCB stole my name, so now I have to be Fake BtCB. That’s a real bitch. He stole my numbers too.

  54. Synth3t1c says

    1B A0 04 DB 30 6D E6 77 01 D3 B1 6F 61 97 B9 2C

    Pantented and Copyrighted. Dont take it, it’s mine!

    Oh, and I want these numers too:

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

    anyone who uses them in their code will be sued as well.

  55. RainbowMan says

    I am going to just patent the alphabet so anyone who ever writes anything will have to pay me royalties

  56. 58 AC FA 0B 15 13 3C 43 12 26 28 7A 15 B2 C5 19

    It look like turtle

  57. Guest186 says

    0B 59 D6 36 0A F6 A0 3E 38 F6 65 94 7B A8 E8 92

    use it and abuse it, i don’t care.

  58. 03 01 6E 3E 4F 6C 9E 6A 12 E5 0F 46 29 AE E2 C1
    sadly this only unlocks your moms herpies

  59. Absolut Grenat says

    42 85 90 18 39 9D 2F 02 1C 28 7F 4C 12 0A 44 69

    oh boy, another one.. it’s like xmas. in June. >_>

  60. Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Youknow_Mykey(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Youknow_Mykey

    if you know my code = true then
    do until you have no more money left
    sue pants off
    loop
    msgbox(“your screwed now!”)
    end if
    end sub
    end class

  61. Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Youknow_Mykey(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Youknow_Mykey

    if you know my code = true then
    do until you have no more money left
    sue ass off
    loop
    msgbox(“your screwed now!”)
    end if
    end sub
    end class

  62. Hold on – we’re getting these numbers with shift-reload? Doesn’t that mean that you could re-issue my own number? I’m going to sue this website for issuing me a number and then not protecting it from being re-issued!

  63. my key, feel free to use

    5D 75 F9 5F 18 7F FF 62 5A FC CB 98 10 46 0B F1

  64. Tompkins says

    71 19 61 9A 36 7C 42 A6 16 E6 F4 B0 64 EE E3 8F

    *someone tries to take it*

    Am I gonna havta sue a bitch?

  65. I was going to get my father a star from the international star registry, but this is even better!

  66. 40 86 AC 7D 0C 16 39 D5 4D D3 AB 18 27 22 E4 55

    Oh, lookee. 500 comments! Some kind of record hereabouts?

  67. So glad I found this… Tomorrow is my daughter’s first birthday and I’ve been looking for the perfect gift. I can’t wait for her to open the envelope and be greeted by her very own integer: 39 83 49 F4 12 4E 36 B6 0A 49 A2 C7 08 A2 CB CA. I just hope she learns the lesson that this gift, like a pet, requires constant care and protection, lest anyone abuses it.

  68. OLD-G-MAN says

    Here it is in all its glory….

    7F 87 16 29 65 5E 74 D7 37 65 D4 6C 6D 21 00 25

    Also…
    READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this message] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies (”BOGUS AGREEMENTS”) that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.

    Failure to comply will result in me suing your pants off

  69. Absolut Grenat says

    4B E9 21 E7 5A 41 05 D3 6E 97 36 6D 1F F0 D3 48

    Copyright 2007 Garnet Scarabin All rights reserved, suckas.

  70. lambdapolis says

    58 EB 0D 15 04 A2 33 3E 71 AC 32 9B 1C 9F 63 49

    My preciousssss!

  71. 7D C7 5A 50 1D 1E 17 36 40 CE 0B 68 25 86 E1 82

    It’s mineeeeee!!!

  72. Hey I got – 3F 87 8C 1C 5C AE 9A 99 09 E0 96 5B 01 66 84 B8

    Thanks 🙂

  73. spleenpool says

    BtCB just made tomshardware daily news section

    funny thing is tgdaily referred to us as ‘freedom-to-linker’

    shouts outs and
    aacs am teh noob
    dmca are the suck

  74. The key: 33 6B F3 06 28 B2 2E A0 71 2C F5 BC 34 1E CE B4

    Is mine, and only mine! I will process until the last penny who use this without my permission!

  75. 45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2

    BtCB is a psychic witch. We must burn him before he kills us with telekenesis.

  76. Anonymous says

    I don’t like my random generated integer…i think i’ll steal BtCB’s number…..
    45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2 sounds better 😀

  77. Jacquers says

    Here is my set of lucky numbers:

    7C 39 23 1B AC F3 6D 50 30 95 AF 60 F8 2E 6A 4B

  78. This is mine : 36 4A 1B 62 33 B0 47 00 A2 7C 65 94 A8 44 2A F3
    It is so sexy…….

  79. Raphael Faunus says

    I personally enjoy my integer, 88 98 88 59 EE 1C 1E 4B E7 04 48 C2 79 5A 01 62. Makes great lyrics for my band.

  80. Well there’s legal precedent to this already.

    Remember when Intel went from 486 to Pentium? That was because they tried to copyright the numbers “80486” and “486” so Cyrix and AMD couldn’t name their clone chips after their “Genuine Intel” CPU’s.

    It was ruled that you cannot copyright, own, or trademark any number, because numbers have been around forever and are thus obviously public domain.

    So I guess neither you guys nor the AACS can own any of these numbers, no matter how “commercially useful” they are.

  81. 😀

  82. This one is mine:

    1C DC 57 78 9F 6C 6C 91 B3 C1 86 F3 28 DD B9 92

  83. Here’s mine:

    45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2

    What are the odds that this is the new processing key?

    (Hint for arnezami: uv=00000047)

  84. Wtf is going on im confused

  85. 470 comments. This has to set some kind of a record for FTT.

    Oh, wait, now it’s 471. And counting…

  86. 51 AF 6E 5B 75 43 BD 6E 7E C7 28 31 3C AA ED 9E

  87. 80 16 F4 41 08 1D 2D B2 06 88 76 7F EE 81 B0 74

  88. N.e.m.o. says

    48 8B A2 3E 5B C4 43 93 53 F6 40 A0 3E 7E 4B AA

  89. N.e.m.o. says

    B2 5B F0 4B F8 F3 AA 48 76 AD DB C7 87 1F 1F 22

    shit….!!!!!!!

  90. Martin Thorgaard says

    0C 7A 08 27 84 85 78 EB A5 86 36 F5 87 60 BB 9E (c) 2007 UCA-vision.

  91. Anonymous says

    What about social brute force collision systems?

    What about reducing the key space available to the AACS for free?

    What if your Haiku decrypting algorithms take as a key an unsorted serie of 16-8 bits integer, and works for the 16! permutations.

    Then for a given key serie of 16 numbers, we are taking 16! numbers out of the AACS guys, so 2^44 combinations gone from the AACS at a time.
    It will take a lot of time to test a key but it is reasonable with current processing power.

    We have increased the chances of collisions and reduced the space to 2^84.

    Could we push this idea further and dramatically increase the chances of collisions without requiring infinite processing time nor reducing the encryption “strength” and not making an all pass system?

  92. …and this is mine:
    A6 CD E6 35 B8 A0 74 5A C8 31 1A 49 29 55 4B 8B !

  93. Mine -> 8A B4 4C 4A B6 FC 1C B5 09 C5 03 4A 41 A1 9A E7

  94. Forever mine:

    8D 44 36 83 00 15 0D 7A D4 BE DC 35 07 07 D2 E8

    Thank You Ed, for you gift.
    Anyway, if someone wants to buy my unique, beautiful and special number, I’m sure we will find an agreement (Just to dream up as a general idea, one billion $ could be fine).

  95. E3 53 53 C6 9D EA 65 1B B2 B1 78 B8 D3 9D 37 89
    how to decrypt and encrypt my haiku?
    please help

  96. Ok, so the publishing of the “09” is illegal? have they considered that it fors part of many many phone numbers published by government departments around the world, and is there a scheme to trace those using “09” as their extension number and force them to change it?

  97. This is a little obsessive anything can be reduced to a number if you don’t believe that aacs key can’t be copyrighted you might as well make the argument that nothing can be copyrighted. Everything is a number right?

  98. Thank you! I have just completed using your site to generate and record a very large number of 128-bit integers, rather more in total than I can readily remember. Exhausting work, but well worth it, I feel; indeed, of considerable commercial value. For the actual number of those integers is a trade secret; as are the integers themselves. I have also used each and every one of those integers and that number as keys to encode THIS MESSAGE. I hereby publish a fair warning, that should anyone use any 128-bit integer in future to encode or decode anything whatsoever, of even the tiniest possible commercial value, they will need to ensure that they have not violated my rights to use each and every one of those integers and that number as keys to encode this message. To protect my commercial interests, I can naturally not publish any of those integers, nor even their number. How then, can anyone desirous of using a 128-bit integer as an encryption key be assured that I do not already have the sole right to so use that integer? The answer is straightforward: I hold myself in readiness to perform a VLNOOHATEBI (Very Large Number Of One Hundred And Twenty-Eight Bit Integers) Search to provide a Certificate stating that a submitted 128-bit integer either is or is not one of my 128-bit integers. Similarly, should anyone wish to use a very large number as an encryption key, I am ready to perform a VLNOOHATEBI (Very Large Number Of One Hundred And Twenty-Eight Bit Integers) Count to provide a Certificate stating that a submitted Very Large Number either is or is not the count of my 128-bit integers. Can one say fairer than that? Naturally, such a VLNOOHATEBI Search or VLNOOHATEBI Count will incur a modest processing fee, being the greater of $1.00 (One Dollar) Australian and 1% (One Percent) of the user’s gross receipts for the product or products protected by the 128-bit integer or Very Large Number, payable quarterly in arrears.

    I look forward to a comfortable retirement by the end of next week.

  99. Axe Lasux says

    I have a real problem. I got my own 128 bit number when I arrived on this page and I was real happy, but before I got around to writing it down somewhere safe, my W98SE box crashed again and I LOST MY NUMBER! Is there a way to retrieve it? I mean, I know I’ve got another one now I’m back, but it’s not the same. That one was special, my first very own 128 bit integer, and I miss it badly. CAN ANYONE HELP?

  100. 22 20 F6 C8 20 DC E8 83 03 9E C1 60 53 5F D7 5F

    This is my own 128Bit Number and I will release it into the “Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0”. I think, that is the perfect license for my great work.

    Have fun with it! Oh, before I forget it: This generator is absolutely great!!!

  101. I own this number!:

    90 0F 60 CC A3 65 05 E0 94 6D AD 0A 39 80 1C ED

    use it at your own peril!

    It is an unsigned hexadecimal integer representing the number of functioning brain cells I have at the moment. Be afraid, very afraid — the universie is running out of particles!

  102. David Jefferson says

    This number of mine is for rent:

    99 7D AE 0D 1A 3D 9A 90 A3 E5 75 DC B1 5A CB 1A

    The price is $0.001 per use. Please send payment to the EFF.

    This number of mine:

    FA 24 FE 17 F2 DC 55 BF 63 05 3F 1F B5 70 29 B3

    is available to anyone for any otherwise legal purpose (except in any association with pornography or election hacking) provided it is accompanied by written acknowledgment that use of the number is contributed by David Jefferson.

    This number of mine

    82 56 37 A9 E5 BB 0E E7 FD 74 50 30 E4 B3 92 BB

    I hereby place in the public domain. Anyone can use it for any purpose whatsoever, without attribution, in perpetuity.

  103. Anonymous says

    ladies and gentelman, that’s mine: 04 8A B6 71 60 C2 0C 5C 80 75 31 8F 00 16 7D 01. Remember, only mine 🙂

  104. I own:

    10 54 4A AA 38 66 AF DC 42 CB 4D 31 F9 A6 A3 43

    My lawyers will sue you if you steal it… so be careful.

  105. C1 BA 22 89 18 EB F8 E9 29 00 B3 BB 44 AF 4E B8

    Mamma questo e’ per te!

    Mam, this is for you!

    (thanks guys, this is the cheapest gift I’ve evere did)

  106. Anonymous says

    If this continues like this, Congress will have to enact legislation which confines the scope of the DMCA only to numbers chosen by the studios and labels that are on a list of authorised number predators.

  107. Err, guys, I am worried, I got a lot of 9 in this number?

    99 9D 3C FC 7D 70 06 13 BE FA 42 5D 6E 09 35 BC

    Should I be scared?

    I would like to trade this number with someone. I’d give it for some other starting with C or something because, you know C (12) is a cosmic harmony number.

  108. I own:

    41 C5 34 EF D8 FB 92 0C FF B5 F4 69 95 31 59 C8

    I have the exclusive right to distribute, remix, and reuse it anyway I like. No one has that right until after I die. I mean 70 yrs after I die, in which case it will go into the public domain unless the powers that be extent the copyright term.

    Ya know what? I’ll be more generous and put it under a creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license 🙂

  109. 3D 9C 67 96 FD 1D 78 50 C4 CF C5 E3 BA A4 34 BD
    is mine 😉

  110. A8 60 2A D6 27 90 D9 76 FC 64 4B D5 7A 88 68 46 is owned.

    Now i will go write it on a wall downtown. If i see any kids copy it….

  111. Mine’s is
    B6 6B C0 B8 E6 90 3F 34 C5 B1 BF D5 1A 32 17

  112. Some of those random 128-bit numbers are random 128 bit numbers like 20 22 93 19 66, 81 89 95 66 00. Even the crudest search shows the MPAA is broadcasting those top secret encryption keys all over the world – such as on their ‘contact us’ web page – under the flimsy pretense that they’re phone numbers. The true owners of those numbers should use DMCA takedown notices to shut down the MPAA’s web sites. And their members’ web sites. And their lawyers’ web sites. And their offices. And demand they redact all those publications. And all that media. Oh, the humanity!

    And the business cards. Won’t someone think of the business cards?

  113. EB 8E 75 86 E8 56 08 E7 BD D6 33 C8 18 5E AD 38 is mine! all mine!

  114. COUNT=0

    while [ “$COUNT” != “1000000” ]

    do

    curl -s http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/genInt.py | grep “” | cut -f 2 -d “>” | cut -f 1 -d “>grabencoding.txt

    COUNT=`wc -l grabencoding.txt | cut -f 1 -d ‘ ‘`

    done

    echo “1 Million Encodings copyrighted.”

  115. Oh, it wasn’t that. The script works great. They blocked my IP. 0]

  116. Try this …

    while [ : ] ; do wget -O – “http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/genInt.py” 2>/dev/null| grep -E ‘ [0-9A-F][0-9A-F] [0-9A-F][0-9A-F]’ | sed ‘s///g’ ; sleep 1; done >>my.own.128-bit.integers

  117. er 744158. my bad.

  118. Aw bummer, my script to collect a million of these was halted at 744,418. They won’t let me grab anymore. 0[

    -rw-r–r– 1 problah problah 36463742 May 10 06:35 grabencoding.txt

    Well, Can’t be too greedy.

    But at least I can script a cross reference to this DB, and search against the most populated search engines. 0]

  119. A6 7E 5A 82 F1 D0 03 D9 7B 38 3D CF 00 FD B3 14
    F1 AA 33 A8 14 50 7B DC D1 36 85 EC 93 C1 B7 C8
    A0 A5 7C 4A 4D 94 B4 7C B7 A4 67 18 1A 3B 0D C0
    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
    C0 3E 5E 99 EA 8A 32 EA 73 3E D4 A8 75 C2 BA 4E
    76 30 21 12 ED 3E 10 B1 99 64 EC 56 9D 3D 5A 09

    All these decryption key are belong to us

  120. Captain Capacitor says

    I just registered the following two numbers:

    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    and
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01

    yes, that’s right, I just registered “0” and “1”,
    the very basis of all computing.

    Anyone who uses 0 or 1 without my authorization will get sued!
    that means you RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, SCO, etc 😉

    Note: any consumer, individual, or Linux distro or developer is free to use 0 or 1 in perpetuity as long as they support OSS and drop any software patent claims they may have now and in the future…

    Problem solved! 🙂

  121. So if encryption keys are so well protected I assume that means people’s PGP keys are also protected I assume, so lots of people already have protected numbers for a long time, interesting, I wonder if you can sue the cops if they decrypt it or try to force people that are suspect of criminal activity to release it, at least sue them for some cash perhaps for use of the key.

  122. 9D 11 9B 2E 91 C5 55 DC 89 56 85 C2 1D 7B 13 11

  123. 00 17 00 DF 79 03 04 BA 96 2E 29 1C FA 21 9C 2B

    Total ownage! I will sue you and your momma if you even think this number…

  124. Joonas Komonen says

    15 66 27 F5 2F 82 83 37 D8 49 77 28 03 09 42 04

  125. Mine!
    84 27 05 AC 2F FC FD 59 47 83 B9 A3 8B 0C 5C D2

    For ever and ever…

  126. Samuel K Hill says

    The following integers are hereby the property of Samuel K. Hill (&#115&#97&#109&#117&#101&#108&#107&#104&#105&#108&#108&#64&#103&#109&#97&#105&#108&#46&#99&#111&#109) and are subject to the Terms of Use stated below:

    12 24 D6 6C 00 C5 85 A2 A0 4E 2D DE D6 04 45 F3
    0D 7D A5 BB 88 20 A4 CB DC 6D 57 13 F8 56 D9 F0
    AE 42 82 20 D4 51 92 3D D8 5B 7E 18 53 08 31 5F

    Terms of use:

    The key(s) above may ONLY be used with the express written permission of their owner for purposes of encryption and decryption.

    Royalty fees will apply to each use and are non-negotiable, dictated at the sole discrestion of the owner of the said key(s).

    The owner of said key(s) reserves the right to revoke the use of said key(s) at any time and without justification or prior notification.

    The owner of said key(s) also reserves final decision on royalty charges in perpetuity, and said charges are subject to change at any time without justification or prior notification.

    ANY unauthorized use of said key(s) for encryption or decryption purposes will be punishable to the full extent available under local, State and Federal law.

    By using these keys you agree to these terms without reservation, and futher agree that said terms are subject to change at any time without prior notification, by any means.

  127. 98 DB B5 15 F9 B0 E6 97 CC 3D A0 73 9C 5C 7E 8D

    I’ll love it and pet it and call it George.

  128. i claim ownership of FFFFFF.
    now i’m not only owning the number, but also the peice of code that makes this sites background! you better change it or i’ll sue you! >:(

  129. The number 1000 is MINE.

    So now you all have to send your 1000$ bills to me! 😉

  130. 123123123321 ©

  131. Jesse Weinstein says

    On May 9th, 2007 at 3:21 pm, Niki Mistry Said:
    … tell me how I can use them to encrypt stuff …

    OK. Check out http://ciphersaber.gurus.com/ ; follow the instructions there to write your own encryption program, which can certainly take your integer as a key (along with anything else).

  132. Here is my Key:
    10DA836B7E74BC1A7B4292C8C0089DFE

    You may use it one time only to decript my message:
    612655E8E0FF14E84E16C08677E13A165533265338C84C80D149A20CE64C421200A58A89205472FAFE49470E5AE379C9A242B3E3B80247C3811E62F0D6C8DB3A420EB27A30DFDB7285A770FBB571B823038661338203B28E5378B0CB61748E8986109714D979883911AD95FB
    at:
    http://www.inspectra.net/Encript.html
    But not more than once!

  133. 21 66 24 86 36 83 23 54 C8 EF 4A F0 85 EC B4 EC
    A6 FF F2 C7 D8 F7 28 36 5D 99 63 D2 04 AF 5D BA
    67 5E 74 DC 60 44 55 96 51 60 19 0C 51 11 EB 10

    Now I have to sue you for printing my numbers on your server.

    Also, you should provide the encrypted haiku. These numbers are kind of hard to enforce legally if I don’t have the media they circumvent.

  134. No one can prove these do not belong to me:

    307
    Number 114
    Group 034
    04090 03403 29286 20356 38122 33628 55375
    52145 01500 99398 83458 04554 59754 96338
    86434 49249 93679 64770 62798 19244 44996
    19794 49378 27271 80437 14363 98605 24798
    56999 85443 72665 99182 64776 49871

  135. DarkNoddy says

    DC 57 5B 2B 7D 1C 34 A4 49 06 50 4E B8 FA 91 53

    Touch this and I’ll haunt you in this life and the next!
    VICTORY IS MINE!

  136. argawarga says

    F5 A0 F3 34 75 76 D5 15 CF F1 E9 78 6A 9B AB E7 is mine

    06 B7 AE 57 EE 5D 63 29 C7 E3 C6 90 A5 BF A2 E3 is for my wife Lisa

    B7 48 7C 2B 9B D6 6A E3 E3 88 EF 6C F9 65 42 C6 is for my daughter K.D.S

    B2 6A 85 CE B0 87 DB 32 49 CB FC A9 4D 2C 13 13 is for my daughter M.M.S.

    86 EB 1D 07 72 CF DB 1F 98 38 D7 31 0D 99 90 0E is for my son D.J.S.

    A9 33 4B F8 E1 8C 26 F9 25 E3 1B E2 E2 32 9C C3 is hereby deeded to all people who don’t currently have a number deeded to them.

  137. Anonymous says

    94 03 31 80 DB 07 5F F5 0D FD 89 C5 5C 20 75 28
    Can’t touch this.

  138. This is mine. Don’t steal it :D. Jeez…

    FB 1F 3A 7C 5C 46 F5 1C 52 45 D4 40 6C 79 88 34

  139. “Surely publishing *that* the number can decrypt some *particular* copyrighted work has to do with it. It’s been a while since I read the DMCA, but would anyone say a number in isolation itself constituents circumvention technology, or is it the number + how to use it that’s relevant?”

    The Number, plus instructions on how to use it, are really just a longer number.

  140. Ed is currently testing a new experimental drm system for a studio, and those “service unavailable” messages are being caused by that.

  141. B3 38 95 72 08 AA 2A 8B 28 06 D3 12 EB FB 09 7C

    Whoa. I didn’t realize how empty my life was until I copped my very own 128-bit integer. Finally, I’m whole!

  142. My idea is to claim the 16 bit 1D EA !!

  143. Anonymous says

    My number: DA A6 2C 56 4B B2 6A A5 18 5B 35 08 A3 2B 7F 40

  144. Seeing a lot of spurious “service unavailable” bogosity at this site last 2 days. What gives? Also, I don’t think I’ve EVER seen nearly 400(!) comments to a post at this blog before. Ever.

    This comment brought to you by the letters F and U (so F-U MPAA!) and the number 0C 88 65 36 5C 65 14 8D B5 3E 47 D9 20 11 9F 90 (eh, looks a bit familiar, but a quick grep shows it hasn’t already been posted in this thread. Hmm.)

  145. Niki Mistry says

    I am staking my claim on
    6A 6D ED 54 EA E6 42 57 60 7A 13 31 E3 99 47 FD created on 09th may 2007 at 20.00 GMT and 5D B7 ED DF 1F E4 B3 89 9A D1 48 38 AB 06 75 4C created on 09th may 2007 at 20.05 GMT – now will somebody tell me how I can use them to encrypt stuff…cos I think it’ll be fun

  146. Number 6 says

    In the (appropriate) words of Daffy Duck “It’s Mine! It’s all Mine!! I’m a greedy little miser!!!”

    Hands off all **AA organizations!!!!
    82 A1 FB CC D7 D5 72 7B D6 F9 4B E3 3A 6B E2 9D

  147. The space is huge. Why not give people a page of numbers in the smallest font available. Or even represent the numbers in binary using 600dpi pixels. You would get a whole lot of numbers per page and people could frame the page as their personal copyright image.

  148. WanLanMan says

    I’ve used my number to encrypt my wireless network. Does that mean if it’s published I can issue a C&D and sue whoever publishes it for encryption circumvention?

  149. Yea! I got the number 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2A!

  150. w00ti0es says

    I will be posting an auction shortly to auction off my rights to

    AE DF 83 00 0E CB A6 45 8B 62 33 57 22 54 9F C1

    If anyone is interested in this dazzling array of numbers and letters, and its powerful ability to protect your content through the magic of encryption. Please come find my auction on ebay!

  151. Mr. Papageorgio says

    Each HEX character is 4 bits : 0 to F = 0000 to 1111.

    32 HEX characters * 4 bits = 128 bits

  152. I must be a real Noob.

    It looks like you gave me 512 bits.. 32 hex numbers = 32*16 = 512.

    Why is this called a 128 bit integer?

  153. Sughadevan Mahendran says

    Ok guys. This is mine.

    00 00 59 81 D3 D8 6F 4B 44 9B ED 3D 25 CA 88 1E

    All rights reserved. If you want it, we can negotiate a price! 🙂

  154. Someone said:

    “Wait! What if I wrote a program that spit out random numbers of arbitrary length … I’d eventually create Aldus PageMaker! ”

    This is very true. In reference to the AACS and the claim on a number, what exactly are they claiming?

    That they own a number?
    or that they own a conceptual representation of that number as expressed in digital format?

    What if I provided it in another encoding? Or in a different base? Or as the product of an algorithm?

    Surely, there must be boundries.
    Just because “their number” could be derived from my work, doesn’t mean I released the number itself, nor did I circumvent anything.

    They would have to prove INTENT…

    I’d like to see them try…

  155. EvilTeach says

    Copyright 2007 EvilTeach, all rights reserved.

    31 41 59 26 53 58 97 93 23 84 62 64 33 83 27 95

    Bruhahahahahahah *cough* hahaha

    Permission to post on any blog is freely granted by the copyright holder.

  156. This one now belongs to my mom, Sharon Boughner of Fithian, IL :
    7B 3D 4F 4F 8F F6 D8 81 C0 1B 21 DD 63 DE 4A 12

    Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!

  157. [quote]… But what got me thinking is that the admin email address for deaacs.com is

    and I was wondering what the significance is of the string

    fe61a7fd2fda93bf490b6187dd55c477

    which, coincidentally, has 32 characters to it.

    Anyone any ideas?[/quote]

    Thats a standard WHOIS protection, shuffles every X weeks, days or hours so spambot crawlers etc. wont get your true email address.

  158. 29 2A 74 4A 85 02 43 FE 65 6A 59 87 69 94 8D B4

    U can’t touch this 8:-)

  159. Anonymous says

    “If EVERYONE published the 09 F9 11… number the AACS LA would eventually go broke sending out letters and we wouldn’t have to worry about them anymore. It would then become a “free-use” number.”

    That only applies of the key starts 80 0…

  160. D4 BA 67 5B 2F E3 B7 FC F8 C0 0E B0 26 2B 8C 1C

    I, personally, think it suits me. Don’t you?

  161. Scotty Boy says

    If EVERYONE published the 09 F9 11… number the AACS LA would eventually go broke sending out letters and we wouldn’t have to worry about them anymore. It would then become a “free-use” number.

  162. 69 75 FC DA 39 F2 F3 E7 E9 AF 14 09 45 00 0C 23. Its mine all mine.

  163. rambler says

    Do not look at the following number!
    48 58 43 64 C2 8F B5 74 78 9D 5D E3 CA 35 89 87

    Enslaving a 128-bit intiger should aggro EVERY.INTIGERS in a 40 yard radius.

    It just makes sense.
    After all it was their best friend.

  164. Gunboat Willie says

    57 0C 30 57 7C B0 53 73 D5 E4 B1 DD E2 22 0B 50
    4B 48 58 0D 57 64 93 8F 24 35 5F 4D 81 94 84 7A

    Mine all mine.. hee hee hee

  165. Gunboat Willie says

    57 0C 30 57 7C B0 53 73 D5 E4 B1 DD E2 22 0B 50

    mine all mine hee hee hee

  166. Anonymous says

    D7 AE 72 B2 B3 EA A1 C8 89 3A C5 00 FD A9 37 08 , That´s my Number, not your´s !! don´t use IT !! IT my Treasure !! HAHA !!

    A number in order to farmhands !

  167. matthew says

    i have a whole bunch of number too… but i’m not telling you what they are. some of you may well be getting letters from my lawyer for published them on this site.

    we can negotiate now. if you pay me $50 i’ll let you use them.

  168. ctyistudent says

    6A F7 66 CC A4 87 0B CE 2C 10 E0 78 74 C1 3D 5C I own this and no you can’t have it NO NO NO muhahahh. hahahahha I own it. HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!111oneeleven1111oneone i am so 1337 hahahaha . you can look but you can’t touch. lol. xD

  169. Where are the monkeys says

    32 DC 8D 51 66 F6 0E BE 73 55 80 02 F0 BA 36 69

    Do not SHARE, do NOT COPY, DO NOT DISTRIBUTE…

  170. Korsgaard says

    Here is my number:
    05 BA E5 05 41 37 F4 89 9B 9E 46 47 7A 3E 3E E9

    It is the most pretty number I have ever seen.

  171. Wow, my very own personal 128-bit encryption key – think I’ll use it for my wireless network, that way if anyone gets into it without my permission, I’ll sue their asses off 🙂

    (It’s 6A 93 6F F9 F3 24 50 B2 91 D1 BD 72 AF EE 55 62 but don’t you dare!!!)

  172. thinking tom says

    ->

  173. Buhahahaha.. MY PRECIOUS.. B9 FF 36 B6 7E EE 9D E6 2B 16 0C 16 67 3A 40 6F. CANT TOUCH THIS!111onoeneoneeleven..

  174. thinking tom says

    but what if you published the aa code offset by one number so DB becomes DA and so forth

    09 10 11 becomes
    0A 11 12

  175. my FD D2 DD 52 86 D1 04 0B 42 F4 45 7F BF D1 67 CC

    do not use or share !!!! -__-

  176. This is hereby free to use for any private individual, except the last two digits – I’m saving those for my girlfriend.

    10 83 5A E3 29 8D EC 34 52 6B B3 BA 84 30 48 DD

  177. A8 D3 B5 A9 B9 (and others) says

    tell me your 128 bit key

    and I can tell you your FUTURE!

    not intrested?
    here’s some numbers: A8 D3 B5 A9 B9 D1 ** ** ** **
    want to see ALL my numbers?

    you’d wish! pervert!

  178. can i get mine in a t-shirt?

    D1 C3 75 C6 46 B5 1C 52 59 A5 32 E0 2F DF 07 93

  179. enierman says

    5F FA 13 D5 89 8A AC 25 7F EB 61 4E E9 60 58 F5
    And this too!
    I demand royalties for viewing my interer!

  180. enierman says

    9E 3D FA 20 A0 9A 85 1F 18 F5 EE 9F 42 47 CA B4

  181. Flatline says

    98 83 A2 2A B9 A8 8A 67 39 69 F1 F6 04 D5 BB E8

    This is my number.
    There are many like it, but this one is mine.
    My number is my best friend. It is my life.
    I must master it as I must master my life.
    My number without me is useless. Without my number, I am useless.

  182. mine -> 8C 11 FF 4A 26 AB 1B 51 01 9E 5B 57 BB AE 7F 36

  183. Mine!
    84 7D 3F 6B 60 80 7B 2B CE 91 F3 CC A8 F5 6E FA

    Although I’m not sure how this is tied to me. How can I show proof of ownership?

  184. Is this a Bushism?

  185. This one is for my mam! (Mam, do not look yet 🙂

    4F 89 59 B4 51 48 22 41 60 CF E5 B1 FA E7 FC A0

  186. So, what would happen if some organization published an encrypted newsletter containing “the number”, distributing the decryption key only to members? The AACS LA would not be able to prove in court that “the number” had been published by the organization without breaking the very law (and in the very same way) that they were trying to enforce! Food for thought!

  187. Kaj Ander says

    Oh yeah, and this one too, I’m not too greedy:

    6F 12 23 2A 63 FA 0F C8 95 00 0E 99 34 4C 4E F0

  188. I got 2!
    AD EE BA 83 C4 31 06 0F 0A 0A 72 BD EC 4A 86 01
    EF 84 AF 10 AA F6 97 73 E7 F3 1B 56 CA 03 E7 F9

  189. Kaj Ander says

    My digits:

    67 E8 18 5D 9F BD F5 09 48 19 AA E7 93 4F 94 1F

    98 58 AE 2F B1 A5 6A CF 73 A3 71 91 83 22 F4 BE

    Service Temporarily Unavailable (THAT ONE’S MINE TOO, SO DON’T USE IT ANYMORE, ANYWHERE!!! Or pay the price…)

  190. he he he ….
    AD EE BA 83 C4 31 06 0F 0A 0A 72 BD EC 4A 86 01

  191. Can i have the following ?

    42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42

  192. This is mine 34 E5 5C 4C 72 D4 56 9D 17 49 28 F9 D9 3E 87 A4
    Aaaal mine… muahahahahaaaa…

  193. Silly question, if these take down notices were mailed to folks out there contained the key in the document did AACS make the US postal service an unwitting accomplice in the “distribution of a circumvention device”?

    Will legal action force the USPS to open all documents to make sure it does not contain the key.

    Of course this would prevent any future cease and desist notices, of for that matter mail delivery of DVD.

  194. I tried again and obtained

    46 75 63 6B 20 79 6F 75 20 41 41 43 53 20 4C 41

    This reminds me something..
    Are you sure those keys are autogenerated and random??

  195. 90 42 1F 6D 9D 5E 1E 56 92 58 9E 61 CD 6E 45 44
    I’m going to call mine Felicia, it’s such a nice number I may be forced to marry it, like that sudanese man and his goat RIP.

  196. I obtained
    75 10 FF 75 0C FF 75 08 E8 02 F9 FF FF FF 75 FC

    This is MINE!!!

    And I really should sue Microsoft because they used MY code into ntoskrnl.exe!!!!

    That’s violation of copyright, DMCA, FckYlfAA and so on

  197. Jim Bob says

    Why not declare ownership of all n-bit keys? My number os 0xFE zero-extended to n-bits. 0xFE is jsut as easily an 8 bit as it is a trillion bit.

  198. 98 A6 E8 57 0F 6C E9 FA 4D C4 4A 32 67 99 47 DA

    It’s mine, all mine…….

  199. 98 A6 E8 57 0F 6C E9 FA 4D C4 4A 32 67 99 47 DA

    It’s mine, all mine……..

  200. E3 D4 0B BB B8 42 FE 6D 45 C7 8C 6C A7 CF 2E D7
    Mine!

  201. BA B5 5B E9 CC 54 6C 64 63 E5 CE EF 50 1B 27 63

    this is mine!

  202. 92 A5 76 CF 63 77 D5 EF 24 67 B0 E8 06 2D C5 ED. No touchy. bitches!

    Ohhh, this is fun! Bless you, DRM imps.

  203. siztenboots says

    I publish my key under the GNU license
    0B 19 63 24 07 A5 EF 54 54 72 1D 5C 8F 19 A0 B2

  204. OF 2D C7 D7 C7 5C 28 58 4E 6C 5C 23 3E 53 BF 8B all for me?! -Thank you Mr Felton.

    Now, if anybody in DC or going to DC in the USofA would like my number – bidding will start on ebay at £1 ($2) all profits will go directly to my local pub.

    & 38 OE E2 59 BD 72 9C A2 50 89 B2 04 8A 9F 26 16 is now my dogs and he’ll bite any integer stealing scoundrel he finds.

  205. Also .. mine : 99 A6 B2 C9 84 5A 2E 96 C9 F9 AF 97 B1 73 53 D4

  206. XXXX is a Universal Virtual Forces Key. A Special IT for Virtualisation.

    A Virgin Spring of Source from the Emerald Isles and ITs Peace Dividend. A Deep and Cleansing Repentance with Remorse reveals an Enlightened Conscience….. with an Enlightened Clear Conscience in the Lead.

  207. Feefers says

    How pseudorandom, is it possible (if exceptionally unlikely) to even generate the infamous 09-f9-11-02-9d… string?

  208. all mine

    64 37 3E B2 09 A8 A4 4A F4 B8 7A D4 25 07 E3 3C
    60 E3 5E 66 E1 C8 46 FF 08 AF A7 8E F7 97 3A EC
    31 EC 8D 42 A1 17 C7 CC D3 60 A7 18 BA AD 15 29

    can be freely used… if you ask me nicely first, but i with hold the right to freely tell people who is using it.

    or on the other hand, i can be kept quiet for a fee 😉

  209. Thanks, now this is mine:
    B0 2D 84 EF 59 A3 81 D5 95 08 B1 D7 C6 5B 2A C4
    🙂

  210. I’m too poor to own one but I do have a license to use FE 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 16 17 FF FE 42 77 A1.

    If they want to fight me for it then they can also sue nVidia and Microsoft as it’s my default IPv6 address and they developed the hardware and software that created it.

    Should this number be used for any purpose other than the above, then I will naturally inform the developers that their copyright has been infringed upon…

  211. SC@VENGER says

    27 FA E3 31 FF 3D CF 1F E0 32 B9 95 49 9E CD 76

    Pity it’s hex instead of an decimal – but it rocks.

  212. Christian Leth says

    Thank you for my new lucky number.
    74 5F 4B 67 E7 E8 26 E6 51 95 FF 08 CE 19 4C D4

  213. Rhys Adams says

    I have legal rights to a certain 128-bit number, but I’m not going to tell you what it is, even if you use it and I sue you!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

    Well, if the SCO Group can do it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies), why can’t I?

  214. One for my son, Zaro:
    1C A4 97 04 A9 44 0B 6F 03 31 40 71 50 FE E8 64
    One for my oldest daughter, Tosca:
    C8 4A AC F7 8A BD 8D BC F3 28 0C 73 2F 9C 79 79
    One for my second oldest daughter, Edna:
    E1 8C CD 13 2F 72 DA E5 D5 F9 2A 06 75 5E F1 38
    One for my youngest, Gioia:
    B5 16 10 7D 88 62 FE 33 40 C6 64 4C 03 60 F2 96
    One for my wife, Sabin:
    77 E3 37 EC EF 0A 65 3C 57 03 3E A5 20 9C 48 86
    And mine, I will keep mine in a secure place and monitor the net for it to surface! You are warned 😛

  215. Vittorio Carullo says

    This is MINE! Keep off!!!
    F4 D7 BB 9A AF FD 0D 00 20 91 C8 7D A0 CD 81 A7

  216. Mine is BD 9A AC 6E D1 54 8F D1 84 21 9F DE A8 F6 9E 77

  217. Kenneth Anthony says

    Just to make a mark on the WWW that this no. belongs to me

    4F 7A C9 4E 64 45 26 06 1F CA E7 E7 D3 C0 B8 08

  218. What are the legal consequences of publishing someone else’s 128bit integer, but cunningly disguised as a sum so the actual number that is published isn’t ?

    AACLs scary 09 key = (AACLs 128bit key +1) – 1

  219. OOPS@ That’s not hex! My bad.

  220. I wonder if LA DE DA LA DE DA LA DE DA LA DE DA LA DE DA is taken?

  221. I hereby declare mine to be in the public domain:

    C3 75 37 E0 DC 7E 61 6C BC FF F9 91 96 31 42 E3

    Anyone may use it for any purpose whatsoever, enjoy my free integer gift!

  222. francesco says

    good!!!!!!!!!!!! very strong!!!!!!!
    this are mine

    3F 46 53 4A E8 45 27 4E 1A 42 EE 64 91 7C 00 E4

    29 29 4D 69 29 0D BD 9D 6C 22 92 1E B3 10 0F 8F

    78 74 E6 F9 A2 36 82 87 60 2A C4 B1 59 CC CB 2C

  223. 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

  224. Erlando Furioso says

    My precious: 65 10 EC 44 CB 77 17 3D 5B 21 FE 58 57 11 5F EA

  225. EB 38 7B DD 7E 21 B6 37 56 52 B3 86 9D F3 11 55

    This is MINE!!! And don’t try to use otherwise I’ll throw to you the DMCA BOOK

  226. Mine.

    E1 AD AC E9 9C CB D0 88 67 B7 23 DF A2 C2 96 74

    Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.

    J.

  227. there are so many posts i didnt read them all so i dont know if someone has already done this but i claim all 256 and 512 bit numbers for myself, just thinking ahead.

  228. FB 00 65 53 61 06 02 55 3E 7B AB 91 04 D6 2D AE

    Mooine!!! All mine!

  229. Mad Dog says

    These are mine, mine, mine… 🙂

    54 64 C0 D4 D4 F2 41 98 42 73 7D C1 78 3B EF 0D
    A7 F1 60 4D 1B E3 9C 5F 56 58 20 F1 35 70 27 98
    41 99 F2 53 D1 07 A9 C3 CC 37 A9 70 B1 BF 44 A8
    44 08 D7 33 91 40 A2 6C AB 20 87 FA F0 7F 15 29
    C1 F1 97 E1 35 89 65 A5 F2 17 57 D0 E8 8F D5 52
    F3 73 E9 F7 45 69 19 AC 2F 7F 21 F9 C8 0C C1 AE
    D7 40 2D 47 D2 52 C2 2D AB E3 56 B4 55 F5 C2 C6
    BA 11 82 18 24 1C 5F B0 FD 9A 88 86 09 8A 03 DC
    D7 D6 FF B6 98 4B C1 4C D8 FA 33 F3 C4 74 F3 1D
    89 47 2C D4 59 DA 3F BC 5F F4 B3 55 E0 65 1C 6C
    BA BD 44 3C C4 40 96 76 B9 49 B7 B7 0F B5 00 BD
    3B 49 19 66 45 87 18 D4 A1 72 37 CB 14 7B CE CB

  230. 5B 67 48 A4 6B 5A DB BB 02 DB 27 76 14 30 8E 5D
    Thats Mine!

  231. Stavros says

    O.K. This is mine all mine, but to protect the innocent – me, I will mask any known hexadecimnal character. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **. This way nobody gets upset, least of all 87 27 66 68 0C 65 2E CD 8F D8 46 F5 92 CC 12 84. But then again whose ever heard a number get upset?

  232. Hmm.. I’ll take this one:
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01

  233. A2 9D 38 D3 73 6F DF 3D 0C 9C EF 32 3C DA 99 C3?

    That’s the code on my luggage!

  234. I claim all integers thus far unclaimed. You may borrow them, but only for the use in counting money that you in the process of giving to me.

  235. @Sake

    DeCSS is a program, but expressed on a hard disk, it too is just another number (granted, a long number).

    It’s funny that we find it absurd that AACS LA can say that “X is ours, and publishing metadata about X such as ‘X is a key’ is illegal under the DMCA.”

    Why is it funny? Because anything that can exist on a hard disk (or generally, a representation of a Turing machine) is a number (somewhere between 1 and infinity) which could be a key and is therefore also illegal under the DMCA.

    If AACS LA wins by some bizarre logic, then all computers are illegal circumvention devices.

    But don’t worry, the law is capricious – if you have enough money on your side that small problem will go away.

  236. 02 54 CD 06 8C BF A8 77 2A 80 CE 0F 94 1B 06 B7
    This one is mine.

  237. It says “service temporary unavailable”

  238. 2F 75 A9 97 7C 01 E5 F5 2B AC 7B 8B E6 00 9D A0

    MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

  239. I get F4 75 7D CF 65 1C A1 BF 00 B9 85 6D 2C A1 13 74 and
    I deed E2 08 BD BF 6E 53 53 9A 61 61 D1 56 31 E5 5E 8E to my wife

  240. These are all mine! Now if only I could just get these as my license plates:
    57 56 B0 6A E1 16 6E 8E D6 D8 D5 77 D0 5F 98 33

    FD 08 6B D8 EC 10 1B F5 1C C8 F8 31 52 B8 B0 30

  241. sirgrim says

    Perfect Mother’s Day gift!! Thanks a ton. I hope she likes this and the land I purchased on the moon.

  242. jeffreyp says

    I 0F 6F F3 04 23 EB 8C 42 46 F4 A7 54 B0 A5 70 3A, therefore I am.

  243. 64 E1 02 C3 48 B7 4B A1 0E 82 CE D4 48 00 1B 9B

    Mine! No touchy!

  244. Anonymous says

    mine is E9 56 A4 DC E2 06 E5 B5 36 19 AE B4 D7 19 80 F4

  245. I reckon there are a lot of these, but really how long would it take to use all of them to encrypt a haiku? Don’t make me write a grid computing client.

  246. The Pristine Source says

    These are MY keys:
    65 A0 C5 1B 90 58 BB 6F 45 E5 22 A0 58 A6 62 BB
    C1 C5 F8 7A 66 AE 04 6C 27 98 33 FA A1 9C C1 8C
    B5 99 0D 3D 55 13 E4 8E 04 6A A0 F0 62 EB B1 A8
    AB AD 41 5B 22 45 1C 84 01 81 11 61 F2 79 C5 33
    29 C6 68 5A 42 18 CC 79 7E 1C AD 9C D8 F3 99 6C
    2D A3 2B DB 00 22 8C EE E2 3A 94 C5 82 B8 D2 27
    AE 57 C1 47 F9 57 8D D4 87 BA 42 A7 10 43 C1 83
    C7 B4 FB A7 4A 81 C0 A9 32 75 0A 24 5A A8 00 01
    D5 23 0C 2B 6E 85 0C A9 E6 3E 61 14 D0 A6 A9 55
    10 DA 16 24 5C 5E BA B8 9B 63 26 AD 69 3D 10 72

    Terms of use:
    The key(s) above may ONLY be used under the strict written permission of its respective owner for purposes of

    encryption and decryption. Royalty fees will apply to each use and are negotiable, but are the sole decision of the

    respective owner of the said key(s). The owner of said key(s) reserves the right to revoke the use of said key(s)

    at any time and without reason or notification. The owner of said key(s) also has the final decision on royalty

    charges, and these charges are subject to change at any time without reason or notification. ANY unauthorized use

    of said key(s) for encryption or decryption purposes will be punished to the full extent available under local law.

    The owner of the above keys may be contacted at:
    pristinesourcegmailcom

  247. The key master says

    Alright I own 9F 61 0A 79 2E A3 10 D0 16 47 36 09 A0 10 61 7C !

    Now that I own this number anyone caught using it will have to answer to me! MWWHAHAHHAHAHWHWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

    Don’t let me find this number being used in any SSL keys without my express permission – MasterCard / Visa – I’m watching you guys.

  248. The chosen one says

    Alright I own 9F 61 0A 79 2E A3 10 D0 16 47 36 09 A0 10 61 7C !

    Now that I own this number anyone caught using it will have to answer to me! MWWHAHAHHAHAHWHWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

    Don’t let me find this number being used in any SSL keys without my express permission – MasterCard / Visa – I’m watching you guys.

  249. Alex Hague says

    So if I now use my own 128bit integer that is protected by the DMCA as a passphrase in say the rubberhose file system, could I be forced to surrender my 128bit key by the courts?

    Ruberhose file system: http://iq.org/~proff/rubberhose.org/
    Self Incrimination and Crypto Keys: http://iq.org/~proff/rubberhose.org/current/src/doc/sergienko.html#h2b

  250. The Pristine Source says

    These are MY keys:
    2D A3 2B DB 00 22 8C EE E2 3A 94 C5 82 B8 D2 27
    AE 57 C1 47 F9 57 8D D4 87 BA 42 A7 10 43 C1 83
    C7 B4 FB A7 4A 81 C0 A9 32 75 0A 24 5A A8 00 01
    D5 23 0C 2B 6E 85 0C A9 E6 3E 61 14 D0 A6 A9 55
    10 DA 16 24 5C 5E BA B8 9B 63 26 AD 69 3D 10 72

    Terms of use:
    The key(s) above may ONLY be used under the strict written permission of its respective owner for purposes of encryption and decryption. Royalty fees will apply to each use and are negotiable, but are the sole decision of the respective owner of the said key(s). The owner of said key(s) reserves the right to revoke the use of said key(s) at any time and without reason or notification. The owner of said key(s) also has the final decision on royalty charges, and these charges are subject to change at any time without reason or notification. ANY unauthorized use of this key for encryption or decryption purposes will be punished to the full extent available under local law.

    The owner of the above keys may be contacted at:
    pristine_DOT_source_AT_gmail_DOT_com

  251. The Pristine Source says

    >> Can I get the encrypted version of the haiku?

    look at the page source….(for the frame that has the key in it)

    right click on key itself and click “view frame source” or something similar

  252. For lease…. on 128 bit int… very low miles…. 1 hour or 1 day

    FD F5 5B 4E C4 34 50 71 37 DE 62 41 16 34 AB 22

    Use with out my permission will be prosecuted…

  253. The Pristine Source says

    the contact info got messed up here it is:

    pristine_DOT_source_AT_gmail_DOT_com

  254. moeinvt says

    You guys rock. What a sweet idea. Ahhh, my very own integer.

    60 2C 02 E0 82 21 8E F5 F3 64 CB 93 C9 CE 76 90

    Can I get the encrypted version of the haiku?

  255. The Pristine Source says

    These are MY keys:
    65 A0 C5 1B 90 58 BB 6F 45 E5 22 A0 58 A6 62 BB
    C1 C5 F8 7A 66 AE 04 6C 27 98 33 FA A1 9C C1 8C
    B5 99 0D 3D 55 13 E4 8E 04 6A A0 F0 62 EB B1 A8
    AB AD 41 5B 22 45 1C 84 01 81 11 61 F2 79 C5 33
    29 C6 68 5A 42 18 CC 79 7E 1C AD 9C D8 F3 99 6C

    Terms of use:
    The key(s) above may ONLY be used under the strict written permission of its respective owner for purposes of encryption and decryption. Royalty fees will apply to each use and are negotiable, but are the sole decision of the respective owner of the said key(s). The owner of said key(s) reserves the right to revoke the use of said key(s) at any time and without reason or notification. The owner of said key(s) also has the final decision on royalty charges, and these charges are subject to change at any time without reason or notification. ANY unauthorized use of this key for encryption or decryption purposes will be punished to the full extent available under local law.

    The owner of the above keys may be contacted at:
    pristinesourcegmailcom

  256. Dave Colvin says

    Well, I have mine now. 04 22 B6 8D 3D A1 A9 81 71 63 F5 73 8D E4 8A 3D.

    Back off and leave to me!!! Mine mine mine…

    Dave

    http://www.redbackracing.com.au

  257. So, what if some enterprising organization decided to publish “the number” in an encrypted format for use by members of the organization? AACS LA would be unable to prove in court that they had published the number, because in order to do so, they would have to do exactly what they were accusing the organization of doing! Food for thought.

  258. I think this is a scam.

  259. Got mine! 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

    Wait…shit, reload. That one’s taken.

  260. Iikka M. Hantula says

    My digits:
    92 F2 78 1D 07 2D 62 F5 EC C3 50 56 29 06 2C 28
    A5 84 ED 27 BF 90 91 EC 02 CE CE 7B 0A E4 88 2A
    40 9F 20 58 EF 1D F9 D8 6B F6 62 BB 56 0E BA BD
    0C 41 4A E8 1D 02 F9 12 93 CB D5 23 9F 1A 14 DB
    8D 77 0A 3D 8D 30 86 FA 29 5D 7C 9B BC 4B BA 82
    DB 68 CB 1A 39 6B 8E 26 06 81 AB 1E 81 6C 4F A1

  261. Kaj Ander says

    Here’s my digits:

    67 E8 18 5D 9F BD F5 09 48 19 AA E7 93 4F 94 1F

    98 58 AE 2F B1 A5 6A CF 73 A3 71 91 83 22 F4 BE

    Service Temporarily Unavailable (THAT ONE’S MINE TOO, SO DON’T USE IT ANYMORE, ANYWHERE!!! Or pay the price…)

  262. Iikka M. Hantula says

    82 1B CC 88 5C FD 2A 27 CC 7C 4D 79 61 4F AB A6

    THIS ONE IS MINE! 😉

  263. Kingrames says

    44 3D A0 E7 01 2D 80 F1 D3 3B D4 3B 7B F2 23 8C

    tis MINE!
    (oh, and thanks.)

  264. HA!!! I pwn you all. I own C0FFEE Bow before me you worms

  265. i own 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 what do i do with it? I want to rule the world with my number by making you all pay me to use it

  266. mmmm I prefer this one though :
    01 1A EE F3 30 CC 22 E7 71 9B 90 FA F4 66 65 06

    …which is also MINE !!!

  267. Anonymous says

    The integer value of “Service Temporarily Unavailable
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. ” has been deeded to me. Anyone who uses this shall be sued for using a circiumvention device.

    Speaking of which, doesn’t this integer have to actually encrypt something for the argument to be valid? Provding an unencrypted haiku with the supposed “encryption key” doesn’t justify the argument that the said key is a circumvention device, since nothing has been encrypted yet.

    — sf

  268. 9D 4C 42 9A DC 76 73 4F F9 00 72 B9 69 23 94 05
    Mine ! Mine ! Mine !

  269. i think i shall make claim to DEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEF now its time to go after IBM

  270. 0D 4C D0 EF DD 5F 16 4C 0B D7 33 B4 14 DB 00 36
    Copyright 2007, under DMCA.
    Any violation of my above intellectual property will result in persecution to the fullest extent of the law!

    Any requests for use of my intellectual property shall require 100 signed and notarized copies of written consent of both myself and my law firm, Crane, Poole and Smit.

  271. I hereby claim number two (2) and all numbers wich can be derived from two (2).

  272. I want mine in morse:

    –… —.. —– -…. .- …– -…. —– .—- —– -… —– .- …– –… …– .- ..— -… —– . ….. -… …– –… .- -.. —-. . .- ..— .-

    Good

  273. 42 EB 88 39 83 24 65 4E 5D AB 8B 0B 4F 21 D7 BF
    now for sale!!!!!
    find it on e-bay starting bid $50.00 USD

    thank you slashdot

  274. So how do we subscribe to VirtualLandGrab Gold? 😛

    I need lots of keys to own, just in case one of your hooligans lets one leak on the internet (illegally might I add). Not too much of a problem though, since I’ll own you as well when you do.

  275. Ken (the late) Olson says

    I claim all 128 bit integers for HP as successor in interest of the Digital Equipment Corp. and it’s VAX processors that had a octoword datatype

    You can make your payments to the guy in the white van behind Fry’s

    thank you

  276. 72 B6 86 43 83 9D E8 71 3F B3 F0 03 F2 35 85 CC is mine! All mine!

  277. Ed Cardinal says

    “1B 4F 76 3C C0 29 A6 0B B1 12 94 E2 B5 50 28 A1” gives my life meaning. Stay away from it if you know what’s good for you.

  278. Disgusted says

    I own:
    69 6E 74 65 67 65 72 61 64 6E 61 75 73 65 61 6D
    i n t e g e r a d n a u s e a m

  279. 3.14159265358979323846 says

    Finally, a number I could call my very own, and a beautiful one too. Lots of nines. Thank you so much. I’m feeling all smug now.

    F0 89 5B 82 AD 09 90 9F 94 E0 B3 D3 3F 6C 99 2F now belongs to mz.

  280. Anonymous says

    Mine got 259 000 hits on google, I’m sending takedown notices while writing this..

  281. Paxmagellanic says

    FB 18 6E A8 2D 17 3D 16 63 1C BC D9 7B 07 EC 39. YOU AGREE TO BE
    BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS OF THE DMCA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE VIEWING THIS NUMBER. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.

  282. this one is all mine : 49 1D 4E F4 C3 DC 4A F8 2F 89 10 EC 1C 22 BB 4E

  283. Anonymous says

    Why mess about with long strings, when you can use dvdfab.

  284. /.

  285. Well, since everyone’s publishing their own numbers, I’ll just follow the lead.
    These one’s are mine:
    AE 10 9A 1D 33 00 DF 1F 6F 29 F1 43 36 CD 0C 0C

    AD 08 B9 CF 35 01 F7 86 A5 C9 3E 96 67 38 C5 AC

    E4 CD E8 CE C3 57 E4 54 45 4F FF C8 53 D1 2F 9E

    I’ll find anyone using these and I will see you in court..

  286. E7 94 2A 82 D8 5E 86 29 6C 97 7E 5D 28 4F 83 D1

    But I accidentally over-wrote the first number generated for me. Does that mean I no longer own it? Or do I still own it, but I’ll just have a problem prosecuting anyone who uses my number? I remember it started with E0 07. Could I just send C&D letters to anyone using E0 07 at the start of any number?

  287. Shinywind says

    This are all mine:
    Number 1)
    E9 F7 8A AB 18 39 14 DD 86 BE 62 3C 7D 9F C0 88

    Number 2)
    7C 7C 91 DE 6A 15 92 C1 24 93 EE 45 27 3D 36 4C

    Number3)
    B1 BC 74 B7 C3 F1 ED 4F D6 A6 39 3D 4F 83 BD 21

    Don’t use those 🙂

  288. Can I use GPL or similar to share my integer(s)? 😀

  289. Test-tummy says

    80 E4 81 2C B3 14 A7 7E 0F D6 41 F0 4F 08 D7 22
    85 92 15 92 96 99 A1 1E CC 43 DC 51 1D A9 82 92
    4F 99 E0 A1 D4 F1 83 CD EA 32 11 C6 B9 E4 56 F3
    36 22 E8 1B 1F E7 3A 44 99 03 7D 62 A1 74 4A 51
    1F 19 4A 24 B4 09 7E E5 21 50 EC BD 0E 0D 5E 9B
    0B E0 B1 AB 07 04 CF E8 E4 E1 F2 81 BD 2B 4C BD
    1E FD B9 60 CB 0A 9A 34 B2 57 AC 32 0E 17 6C F5
    E5 6C 1E E3 DA C8 2E 14 64 E3 8A 59 56 5C 54 60
    F7 E4 75 D1 19 98 1F AA D8 79 5E E9 85 A6 2F FA
    00 8E A4 74 D3 1D 28 6F 52 6C 2D 46 36 82 BC 9E
    4E F0 17 52 DC 8F 69 39 28 03 C8 9A 79 08 58 ED
    34 AB 59 F7 92 9F DB 49 DA 61 EE 29 89 DD B2 49
    94 C4 D5 7A A4 B5 50 7F 55 86 79 4A 19 CE 6B E9
    60 79 B2 0C D3 6F 32 0C 25 9B C5 7F 56 8E A1 EC
    0D 64 0A C3 61 24 4D A7 DA 80 C1 4F 40 5E D1 8E
    E4 07 27 14 19 AC FC 2E B8 56 0B B6 EB AB 32 65
    B8 9C 04 E1 A3 C5 D2 A0 32 B6 74 8C D7 C1 D5 33
    56 32 93 B1 25 E0 85 A7 C7 79 87 C6 E9 7D 46 23
    B5 ED 3B C1 B0 9E AF 99 BE 26 BC EF AB 7A DD E5
    EE BA 2F B9 5C 1F A7 36 BB B1 C2 D1 12 16 3B 5D
    52 62 DA FE CD A3 D2 F7 1B 5A 64 66 C5 0A 10 34
    60 21 5B E3 C6 46 0A D1 B9 52 87 E5 25 ED 74 CE
    4F 74 57 AD E9 8C 09 B1 38 81 AC 66 DC 08 92 D9
    FE 53 38 EB 6F 26 E8 4A CE 60 C8 68 6E 9E 0D 33
    27 53 FB 48 74 5D A9 9B 0E BF 42 D4 10 8C EE 32
    2C 35 44 F9 8E B4 5D 52 67 95 BA 12 E9 2B CE 14
    38 52 11 07 09 B0 21 CE 16 7E E0 10 1A BC 56 E2
    7F 84 D7 D2 6E 25 66 77 03 CA 8A A7 8A 67 59 6A
    7A 4D E1 D0 E6 F9 F1 50 65 4C C9 F2 D8 9D CD C3
    B5 C7 D9 09 71 0A 71 E6 9C 3E B2 70 09 2B FA BA
    F7 A9 CF 4F 9B 04 B0 86 36 D5 93 DB 84 1E F6 BE
    89 ED 8B E4 7E 54 11 3C 55 49 D5 16 F2 CA 7D 49
    4B ED FB A7 0F BD DA 3B A9 BE 7B BF 95 D5 20 8D
    3C E3 93 5E E5 D6 15 8D 83 D7 6C FD BB EC 1F 0B
    61 A7 17 A5 79 70 4D 3F CD C1 5F 82 B8 9A 5D 32
    7C F4 51 B8 FC FF 0B B7 BC 60 F3 4C 0E 30 42 06
    E5 61 02 25 3E 61 02 12 0E B7 8E A8 92 BD 67 1E
    38 44 6E 0E 06 D2 2E 57 B4 64 F1 97 BC B4 29 9F
    DE 66 FF 56 EB B3 4F 41 B0 CB 20 94 0F 38 24 AA
    57 82 67 2D 68 A1 1F 39 F3 D7 DC 17 36 22 FD C3
    4C 3C D8 40 25 53 A8 F1 A1 13 9E 6B 52 55 0C BE
    86 A5 86 04 8D 2C D5 83 E0 10 FF C5 E8 41 52 F5
    63 2C DF 51 41 FD 8F 2B EA 6B 30 4C B0 44 35 26
    BF EB E8 7F 3B 71 F3 85 FC 31 67 10 98 81 8B C8
    E6 9E 7C 4B A4 17 17 89 5D 5C 3A FB 5B C1 AB AD
    36 E1 EB 80 9E 89 0C 2F FB CF 61 14 A3 69 E7 36
    90 7A B9 81 13 7B 6A 15 13 53 AE 44 45 E3 A0 2C
    24 62 E0 91 4C 0C B1 16 13 6C 58 85 E9 E8 8B 3E
    2D 9C B1 F1 35 BA E9 31 B4 DB 76 AD 0D 48 93 6E
    C7 CD 5E 18 A3 05 8F FC 4B E0 B4 C6 F6 88 5B 6D
    1C 4B 81 89 AE 32 6B 21 95 E8 33 D5 D9 8F 50 D5
    3A C2 D1 16 09 BD 65 36 4C 60 D3 B2 43 D7 D8 75
    39 48 5C 43 D4 B9 68 43 4D 3E 1D 1E 1C 27 91 50
    4D AC 5F 7B 59 AC 9B F7 42 84 41 F7 24 61 A5 D6
    38 DE C2 E4 AF 38 84 81 68 52 1F FF 06 60 6D A4
    00 03 87 CC 3C 56 6F 60 D3 09 3C FA B1 C2 1C D9
    DD 48 36 CE 51 81 04 5E D1 81 B5 3C CB A3 48 E9
    92 FF 4D BD 77 B5 A1 39 A3 9D 91 B4 75 B2 07 CC
    B7 5A 86 E5 0B 07 CB 94 E1 32 5B 63 C4 28 AE 35
    10 C3 35 8F ED 15 9A 03 90 F9 62 D0 C4 01 75 0A
    F9 DA F1 4E E7 F0 58 8E 69 9E C8 9E 11 1D 3E 91
    05 1A F8 35 0D 9C FD DB 41 04 E8 FB AE 6A C5 7C
    FF D8 BD 32 38 46 FF AE 82 6D 34 E3 20 40 1B 68
    A6 2F DA 93 38 43 3B 2F 6C CD 2F 98 52 FD B1 AE
    BE 42 BA 05 26 3F 8A F2 21 58 D3 B0 AC 34 93 FA
    0C A2 9B 0E 98 C4 30 9D 20 32 8C 56 35 61 20 1D
    84 6A 07 A4 BA 70 AE 6D F5 B6 49 96 D1 38 5C A8
    D9 AC CA 5C FD 56 19 12 62 A6 90 49 D7 F0 92 EC
    4D C7 55 8F 20 0D EF 05 45 2B 64 24 40 34 93 B7
    D3 BE ED 97 3D CC 2D B7 44 8C 27 FC 1B 05 B4 40
    61 4B F3 A8 6F 7F A9 49 D3 FD A7 00 22 18 C3 7B
    !!! — ALL MINE — Don’t use in any case !!! =)

  290. I have it

  291. This is mine D6 05 D3 DF FC 7A 02 28 5D 83 F1 99 09 19 54 D5

  292. Anonymous says

    Huh – is this a Windows Vista serial generator?

  293. Armahdettu says

    This is mine 30 8E 4F BD 34 0E 78 79 EA D1 2A D6 1A F1 17 30 !!!

  294. Anonymous says

    05 F3 2B E8 D7 B5 86 88 90 26 CD CA 98 40 18 90

  295. 83 17 55 36 30 DE 00 AA D6 77 74 EE DF 9E F5 52 >> Mine!

  296. Anonymous says

    2C B1 C1 8A 22 7E 49 18 E7 C3 58 EE 94 B5 3B 27

  297. Has anybody seen my integer? I seem to have lost it somewhere. This is what it looks lik:

    73 5A 54 E8 25 B6 28 69 BD 2F BB 8D 22 6F 5B 36

  298. What about, say, the number 8? I encrypted some personal data that can be decrypted via the key ‘8’, can I own ‘8’ now?

  299. CC 4D 96 3B 3A CD D9 C3 BD 39 15 C6 BF 64 54 43 —> THIS IS MINE! 😉

  300. Why don’t AACS just encrypt their numbers so no one else can use them?

  301. FC B7 CF 29 A1 AD 84 4F B6 C4 4E 5D 7E FF 99 86

    Awesome number.

  302. This is fun, but the MPAA doesn’t really claim to own their special integer. The claim to own in *in conjunction with* a description of what it is used for. This is still silly, but not as silly as claiming to own an integer.

  303. mine is 55 53 60 37 F2 12 75 01 83 F9 27 9C 64 01 23 99
    and upon posting I got 4D 7D 40 EA BA FD 7C 22 BB AD 45 DF 09 77 80 D9 as well.
    But what would happen if I made a typo, sometimes, and if I’d claim 55 53 60 37 F2 12 75 01 83 F9 27 9C 64 01 23 98 ? Or 4D 7D 40 EA BA FD 7C 22 BB AD 45 DF 09 77 80 D8? Or the famous one? Ooops.

  304. thanks so much for 55 53 60 37 F2 12 75 01 83 F9 27 9C 64 01 23 99

  305. 132125 This is a Miiiiilusia`s Number. Now Everybody knows.. ;)))

  306. 132125 – This a Miiiiilusia`s Number ;))

  307. Fly little 2B 1B 8F 34 84 C6 90 70 0F 4A AB 0C EF 19 F1 1B and be free!

  308. Couldn’t resist…

    B0 0B 5B 00 B5 B0 0B 5B 00 B5 B0 0B 5B 00 B5 B0

  309. oasisob1 says

    The Secret AACS numbers are kind of like the secret laws surrounding airports: I’m not allowed to know them, but if I am caught using them, I’m in trouble!
    Awesome! Secret laws rawk!

  310. I got one. I’m putting it in a trust fund for the kids…
    58 D8 06 E5 88 56 40 50 C0 F7 F3 58 8A 26 45 24
    They’ll thank me when they’re older.

  311. Realy, the last one 4C 80 CF FD 76 BD 74 DC 7E B0 36 5C 5F 42 CE A5

  312. The last one 96 2D A1 0F 58 8C 85 8E 4B 17 A3 18 99 EC 8F E3

  313. and this one 36 4F C9 24 69 35 D5 A6 F4 FE C4 FA FA EC 5A 34

  314. Also this to DD C1 13 2D 49 82 AF 27 D8 AB 48 0E 67 33 2A 77

  315. When I post my first comment, the page reload and now I own a new number CB AF 22 20 F0 79 8D 9D FB BA F6 F5 F1 34 9E 04, so please keep your hands out of this number.

  316. Proteo5 says

    99 1F 1D 45 45 E4 26 8D 6F 30 C7 F2 0C D8 8A 90 is mine, and in case you don’t notice it is the coolest number ever so it is not legal to used in any form or even knowing this number. And why it is the most cool number? Becose is mine, mine and only mine.

  317. Context says

    You can’t own a number. What they are saying is that you can’t spread the number in this context.

    Example: Someone has hacked into a website and posts the password. If you write the password on a totally unrelated site, you have no problems. But if you say “this is the password to site X”, it’s different.

  318. …anyone want to trade?

    CF 36 AE 1A 0B 6F 10 43 DB 1D E9 EA E5 17 C6 E7

    On second thought, I’m giving this to charity.

  319. rickygee says

    F8 F7 E7 65 72 4C 1B 7E 82 71 7C DA F4 53 5E C2, bitches!

  320. AyeRoxor says

    AyeRoxor claims 4B 92 06 47 E8 23 A4 8F ED 02 D3 DA DF EA 55 04 with respects to all copyrights worldwide.

  321. Chris Grossmeier says

    I used 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688BF. I feel much safer for not using the “copyrighted” number. What a difference 1 bit can make!

  322. 21 – MINE :] gosh!

  323. All your bits belong to me.

    Encoded by

    2E C3 E3 C9 22 68 55 63 79 AA 97 AE 35 89 4E 2A

    THINK
    think different
    Think Open Source

  324. EC 93 FC 24 12 DE 8E 59 A2 43 02 5F A7 D0 2F 0B

    Is it possible to reserv 3.14?

  325. Why use a ramdom number?

    My private key is 2B992DDFA23249D6 hexadecimal, or if you want it in decimal, it is 3 141592653589793238.

    It is owned by me, nobody can use, copy, transmit, or do whatever with this very personal number key that I use to encrypt my original works.

    Nobody can use any derived work (like 3.14) with this number.

    I’ll be sending C & D letter to any that is using my number (actually 22 million sites):

    http://www.google.co.ve/search?hl=en&q=3.14&btnG=Search

  326. My OWN 8D BC 56 10 E6 9B B6 53 EF 5F 37 E6 D4 59 CD 08

  327. I am not a number, I am a person!

    OK, I guess I’m a number, too, and that number is:
    90 8D 20 13 57 6F 69 AB 14 AB 1F 31 AC AB 3A 35

  328. 9B BC 15 C4 23 24 0F 70 97 5C 87 5C 75 1D 6F 52 i now mine and you all will be destroyed!!! MUHAUHAUHAUAHAUHA

    0_o 😀

  329. Sorry, someone above mentioned 0×568d9669. I already own that.

  330. Property is only worth something if you are willing to defend it.

    If these integers have value to you, then you might spend a portion of that value defending the balance – without defense, your ownership is meaningless.

    If the laws of Trinidad and Tobago are amended to allow me to claim ownership of Titan and Callisto – then I may claim that ownership under those laws, but I doubt T&T will go to bat for me in any meanngful way when NASA wants to land a probe on my moon and I tell them to keep out.

    The DMCA has no teeth in and of itself, you’ll have to spend money defending your numbers, and likely demonstrate to the court the value of what you are losing by having your ownership infringed, so they might assign appropriate damages to you resulting from the infringers actions.

    Still – it’s a bunch of stufin’ nonsense, owning numbers. There needs to be a revolution in the concept of intellectual property ownership, the present system is about 50 years out of date – ever since audio recording and photo copying became consumer commodity products, I’m surprised the entertainment industries have held on to the present system as long as they have.

  331. i dont really get why everyone’s scrambling for a number. herd-psychology?

    2cents.

  332. Bill Green says

    06 F7 93 A5 B4 80 D4 3E 62 70 47 F6 EB 2E E3 3E and also 75 25 8A D9 60 7D ED ED BA C5 47 D1 F3 E3 6B 49 is mine.

  333. holy_bazooka says

    02 50 F7 B5 42 B5 F3 73 C6 05 80 44 3D 5A 81 4D

    ITS MINE ALL MINE. now i can dominate the world.
    MUHAHAHAHHAHAhahahhahhaha

  334. James Allen says

    F1 DA EC 1E 07 07 8B 6C 34 C0 3C 77 9B 08 C3 58
    My preciousssss…..

  335. Frogknot says

    20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E

  336. 26 BF 05 BE EC 0B 28 3F 9E B2 F9 7F 1F 0B 46 62 says

    I will crush you!

    Formerly Zaff Branagan,
    26 BF 05 BE EC 0B 28 3F 9E B2 F9 7F 1F 0B 46 62

  337. 128bit as in a regular IPv6 adress? Yawn.

  338. Mexicoman says

    Kurt
    DA 5E AB 8A D5 CE E8 09 31 D6 5F 7F 6C 86 3A 42

    That is MY Bloody number…. You stole it and I can prove it. I ahhh, well, maybe if you can show me some proof it’s yours, Ok? If it ain’t copywrited, who owns it? And even if it is, so what… Ya gotta catch me with it first, and in the world of twenty-seven billion computers, how ya gonna do it, Bunkie? You see, I’ll never use it on line… I’ll just hand write it. HA! Gotcha! HUH?

    Isn’t this whole thing just too silly…

    If you don’t think so, here’s a free number guaranteed to be yours alone cause I don’t want it. Also, IT ENCODES A SECRET MESSAGE–find it and split a hippopotamus!

    F1 U2 C3 K4 00 Y6 07 U8 00 J9 E0 R1 K2 W3 A4 D5

  339. Haha, I’m being greedy – I’ll have 2:

    D7 AF 2B 9B 3C BF 16 04 8B 68 BF D1 DB 02 0E 29
    7F 97 9B 3E C9 4B ED D8 EB A5 F0 6C 69 E4 CB 25

  340. MINE!!! says

    i’ve got a 128-bit integer that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves, i’ve got a 128-bit integer that will get on your nerves and this is how it goes: 51 5B 05 23 82 23 B3 15 46 4C 11 38 41 D1 96 63

  341. There’s no limit to think at freedom-tinker. I am really amazed with this new concept

  342. mai pressssshhhhuuuuussssss
    FE 3A AA 7D 12 3B 33 A4 05 56 AC 48 15 56 32 1F

  343. Valentin says

    Is 0A 0B 0C the same as 0C 0B 0A? Or more specific: What happens if someone publishes the AAC LA’s number in another coding?

  344. g3n3tix says

    I Want 1EE7 or 1337 !!!

  345. 57 FF DC BD 49 4C F9 41 17 35 6E 32 F7 FF C2 22
    try hit me, try code it with this and you’ll be sued for millions ! 😀

  346. Get yours quick, only 3×10^38 numbers left!

  347. Ed Harrison says

    1A 22 A1 0A F4 E3 7A CB 02 F7 6F FD 6B 5C A7 72 =i win!!!

  348. jisakujien says

    OK, now where is my ciphertext? Do I get to choose between symmetric and asymmetric ciphers?

  349. I’m suing you all, because I patended the hexadecimal numeric system, you bastards!

  350. this is my fucking integer you cunts keep your mitts off of it

  351. One Number to rule them all, One Number to find them, One Number to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them:

    DD BC ED 2D 38 DE FB 2A 57 DB 9E 11 21 A4 59 C1

  352. Anonymous says

    B8 5C 6D 1E 07 F9 AB 5E 0F 0D 48 A5 3B 1F 6B C7 use it and ill sue! be prepared!

  353. My compliments on this great social hack 😉

    I hereby revoke my rights to:
    EB 4D 97 E5 0D 6E 11 E2 F1 35 14 7C 71 E1 C5 39

    Which from here on out will no longer be a trade secret, but please, if you want, use it as your own, but don’t sue me for using it later to decrypt your content 🙂

  354. And today’s unlucky numbers are:
    80 CC D8 AF AE D3 AB 54 B7 2E CE 67 C7 0D B4 69

    If you have used this number, be prepared for my Demand brief, because I’m going after you, like a hawk!

  355. C4 8E 76 B3 71 CA 88 BC 50 40 AC 4A D5 76 A1 4E

    I just hope that I can someday name my first born C4 8E 76.

  356. Hrm … This one looks vaguely familiar.

    08 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C1

    While I’m tempted to say “All your integer are belong to us!” I think I’ll actually put it under the creative commons share-alike license. This obviously propagates to derivative works, such as if you added one to the first octet and subtracted one from the last, fr’instance.

    Actually, I think maybe I’ll amend that to share-alike noncommercial … >;)

  357. HEY
    what about us people that want their own floats?
    NUMERAL DISCRIMINATION!

    :>

  358. Hey man, you have to pay royalty for these numbers:

    9D E9 21 CF C4 65 DF A9 ED EC C4 7E 16 AF 31 6E

    15 A6 2E EE 13 72 DF 8E 86 F3 90 36 39 5C 56 3E

    Because they are MINE!

  359. FTR, this 128 bit integer is mine:

    DA 5E AB 8A D5 CE E8 09 31 D6 5F 7F 6C 86 3A 42

    Best,

    Kurt

  360. God I love the internet. How did we ever stick it to the man before we had tubes?

  361. This is all very cool, but it would be much more effective if the list of numbers that people have been given was published somewhere. As it is now, there’s no proof that any of these numbers are “taken.” You could make up any number you want and post a comment saying you own it… I know, this is all just satire, but maintaining the actual list would just be so much more effective.

    I guess 2^128 possible numbers might eat up a few too many hard drives on the servers.

  362. Duncan Niederlitz says

    PS- If used to circumvent my lock and get into my old locker, I will also sue.

  363. Craig, the HD-DVD key isn’t protecting private information – it is protecting an HD-DVD that you still have to purchase (or break “real” laws and illegally copy) to be able to watch. I think people feel that if they buy a publicly available work so that they can watch it, they should be able to watch it on their computer without having to buy an extra video card and monitor because their old ones weren’t HDCP compliant.

    Maybe you should do your homework before you call people names. Your post indicates you don’t really understand how this all works.

  364. Mad Brad says

    I’d use /dev/urandom, just to be careful.

    You can ever have too much random in your pseudo-random.

    And thanks for this!

  365. WOW!! the HD DVD decryption sequence was my secret key… they should have asked me before using it… time to sue!

  366. Duncan Niederlitz says

    This was my old locker combo. What a coincidence.
    BA E6 FB 82 F9 E1 D8 72 6C EB E7 D7 52 9B BB 85

  367. I’ve got mine!
    shhh no one tell.

    19 F8 35 55 55 AC 19 9B 80 73 C7 86 B3 9F 89 66

  368. I’m claiming 69 for myself and no one else can use it. From now on the number and it’s particular position are mine only. The rest of the world will have to cease and desist using it, especially in bed. Go back to missionary and doggie if you like but 69 is now all mine.

  369. nothing but a geeeeeek fest

  370. It’s not about a number being private, it’s about a number being copyrighted.

  371. Mike Huett says

    @Craig
    My name is Mike Huett. I live at 2009 Martha Pl. 1stfloor, st louis, Mo 63139. I’m sorry, I do not own any credit cards. Any other numbers you want from us “hypocrites”?

  372. chair_tard says

    Why stop with 128-bit numbers? Wouldn’t the absurdity of this be clear if you started with single-digit integers and moved up from there? Granted, 1,2,4,&8-bit encryption isn’t very secure, but no less protected by the DMCA. Also… someone should attempt to use some irrational numbers like Ï€ (pi) and e.

  373. 2 observations for you Ed:

    1) That string is selling t-shirts, which makes it of commercial value beyond circumvention.

    2) If publication voids your ownership, why the web page (obvious entertainment value aside)? Generate all the strings privately and assign all the rights to, say, the EFF. From a theoretical legal perspective, case closed.

  374. A2 E4 B8 37 6F 31 3B B4 C2 08 E6 42 50 E1 1E B3
    That’s mine!
    Keep way from it RIAA or I will send you a Cease And Desist letter!
    LOL!

  375. Cool!

    Now, if you think yourself all for digital freedom and how numbers should not be kept private, post your full name, address, phone number and social security number.

    While you are at it, how about posting your credit card numbers, date of expirations and associated 3 or 4 digit security number.

    Not so brave now, huh?

    When it is concerning numbers that are important to you, you all of a sudden get sort of protective, don’t you? Hypocrites.

  376. why stop with integers?

    i want to own one of the letters of the alphabet.

    i choose ‘e’, because it is the most frequently used.

    now keep those royalties coming!

  377. F9 40 6D A6 51 CC 91 D2 DC 15 65 4E A4 B7 72 96
    is taken by the CIA

  378. Like being back in Gr. 3. I’ll take these ones.

    55378008
    71077345
    58008
    7734

  379. Christian Nordquist says

    03 DD ED 80 5F 7A 1B 46 FB 69 24 45 42 1C 92 CC

    Said in the voice of Daffy Duck
    “MINE MINE MINE ALL MINE …. BWAHAHA!”

  380. Christian Nordquist says

    CF 9D 7F 80 1E AF 34 A8 E0 0D 05 AE 24 35 6B 04

    Said in the voice of Daffy Duck
    “MINE MINE MINE ALL MINE …. BWAHAHA!”

  381. Christian Nordquist says

    my key
    64 5F DF 1A F3 64 8E F2 D7 0D 34 87 AF 24 61 9A

    Said in the voice of Daffy Duck
    “MINE MINE MINE ALL MINE …. BWAHAHA!”

  382. I have claimed each of the following 4 bit integers: 0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, 0101, 0110, 0111, 1000, 1001, 1010, 1011, 1100, 1101, 1110, 1111

    I see a lot of you are distributing them without permission, so you can expect my takedown notices to arrive shortly.

  383. Jonathan says

    00 19 3F 74 D3 48 3E 46 79 F3 E4 F6 E5 20 B3 C7 is mine, so don’t even think about it, especially because thinking about it is against the law! In fact, you shouldn’t read this post, because by reading it you’re breaking the law. Buncha damn criminals!

  384. I don’t have a clue about the legal side of things, but if I transmit a 128-bit number x to you, that by itself does not give you any useful information.

    The number x only functions as a circumvention device in conjunction with the information that `the number x is an encryption key for the foobar scheme’.

    I’d be quite interested to hear an analysis of the whole situation from an information theoretic point of view…

  385. graphex says

    This isn’t fun until I can find out what Ed’s number is on the poem he just sold me for $25. Then I can post his number on my blog and get a C&D letter from Ed’s attorneys (preferably written on a napkin).

    So if Ed ends up suing me for, say $25 and he loses his suit against me, wouldn’t that set a precedent which would help doom AACS LA to fail? What if thousands of “licensors” of Ed Felten’s Advanced Haiku Access Control System (EFAHACS) sued each other for pedantic amounts and all the plaintiffs sued with incredibly low vigor….

    What you say, Felten, see you in small claims court?

  386. Greetings. The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief will be eligible to join the warrior elite of the AACS LA. You will each receive an identity number. Everything you do or learn will be encrypted with this number. If you lose your number or fail to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. That will be all.

  387. Here’s my very own 128-bit Integer:

    B4 CC A7 7C 6F 0A 1A 16 DE 72 52 25 C5 52 F7 9B

    Actually I have two! Here’s my other one:

    16 01 3A DE DE 45 1F 9C 81 B3 A6 F8 82 73 A3 17

    Thanks Ed!

    What a great example to show the stupidity and futility of it all!

    And fun at the same time.

    Will send some folks over to get their from my blog entry. 😉

  388. I am the proud new owner of a bouncing baby
    3E EA 1E 84 24 C3 7E C0 25 2E 07 B1 0B 4D 95 DB

  389. Fried Ricer©™ says

    BB D3 EF C2 88 4B F7 CD 8F 62 B6 D4 33 22 23 72©™ is my temp super key. However, I will be replacing the ‘BB’ with ‘FR’ to appear as follows – FR D3 EF C2 88 4B F7 CD 8F 62 B6 D4 33 22 23 72 ©™

  390. “Then we use your integer to encrypt a copyrighted haiku, thereby transforming your integer into a circumvention device capable of decrypting the haiku without your permission.”

    Did I miss the encryption part, or are we susposed to do that ourselves?

  391. Why stop at 128-bit keys. I did a similar thing a few days ago, but instead of trying to grab a 128-bit key, I used the AACS-LA PR phone number to encrypt a photograph.

    http://www.adrianmccarthy.com/blog/?p=61

    I’ve got to send them a take-down notice now.

  392. Ooops…. was supposed to say MPAA & RIAA…

  393. I know a whole lot of people that would argue that the phone number and street address of the RIAA is not a commercially significant thing. Lets encrypt a bunch of stuff using those as the keys and then pounce every time those bums send out a piece of letterhead!

  394. Michael Donnelly says

    They may be able to get you on the mischaracterization of your “work”, Ed. Your haiku follows the first rule in syllables, but does not contain the normal reference to a season or a visible split between two halves of the work.

    All seriousness aside, the hilarious example does make a good illustration on why freedom of speech is so important. The limitations on speech must be very, very, very carefully managed and controlled by the law. When is something a “part” of a circumvention device? One function from some code? A header? “int main(int argc, char ** argv)”? A bunch of hex without any code? The code without the bunch of hex?

    There’s no clear line. This part of the DMCA falls way afoul of that “make no law … abridging the freedom of speech” thing I heard about so long ago.

    Oh how I wish this would be fought to SCOTUS…

  395. Groucho says

    Pick a number between 1 and 10.

    11.

    Right!

  396. thanks 🙂
    mine! keep away! 0F 49 39 E2 C9 BE 84 13 8E B8 1E 91 03 60 14 79

  397. n sto25r says

    a #to call my own , D6 02 C0 FF 7F E0 F4 13 6B CF 88 B4 47 A6 1B 1A , what i win ?

  398. I love this idea! Now if only I can get the one that they decide to use on some other form of encryption in the future……Muhahahahahaha

  399. F8 7E 37 CA 00 91 1F 13 9F 14 84 CD DA 25 21 AA
    this on is mine, there are many like it but this is mine i call it stacy it must be F8(fate)

    disclaimer
    do not use, read, speak, show, copy, paste, remember, think of or write down

  400. john brown says

    DE AF B6 5F C8 D1 6B 09 6F 4E F4 54 0B 43 56 57

    mine mine mine mine mine!!!!!!

  401. At what point does a sequence of digits of length N change from being a number and into being the copyright-able expression of an idea? Why isn’t the Adobe Photoshop binary file just a number – albeit a very large number? Hmmm … It’s handy that everything can be reduced to being thought of as merely a number!

    Excellent.

    Wait! What if I wrote a program that spit out random numbers of arbitrary length … I’d eventually create Aldus PageMaker!

  402. Can I have “5”? I’ve always liked that number.

  403. Eric Norman says

    I have a 256 bit number that I’m sure someone would enjoy (it’s prime and doesn’t have 2 as a primitive root). But I’m going to want a lot of 128 bit numbers for it.

  404. Andrew,

    We represent Minimal Access Content System Licensing Administration, LLC (MCSS LA). The above referenced integer, “1D E8 29 45 9B CF A6 86 2C A8 F7 74 DE D9 3C 6A”, for which we understand you are the Internet Service Provider or administrative contact therefore, provides to the public the above-mentioned integer, and is thereby providing the public a technology that is primarily designed, produced, or marketed for the purposes of circumventing the technical protection measures afforded by MCSS.

    In view of the foregoing apparent anti-circumvention violations, we ask that you immediately remove or cause to be removed, or disable access to, the above-mentioned integer.

    MCSS LA reserves all future rights and remedies with respect to this matter.

  405. So maybe what we need to do is do a prior art search for every program and every music or art file that contained that number prior to the use of it for DVD encoding? No, wait. DMCA doesn’t care about prior art. That’s IP Law. DMCA isn’t real law, just intimidation.

  406. HA HA! I hereby lay claim to my decryption key

    1D E8 29 45 9B CF A6 86 2C A8 F7 74 DE D9 3C 6A

    Which has been used as a one time pad key to encrypt my super secret message.

  407. 5E 45 23 C1 C9 AB 30 68 5E 88 70 A9 E7 96 2E 31 owned.

  408. FEEDD00D002D1337

  409. (the system used in old-fashioned DVDs)

    Hi! Welcome to the future! We hope you enjoy your stay!

    If you have any old-fashioned DVDs, there is an antique store just around the corner that will buy them from you and copy them onto a HoLoMaCroâ„¢ crystal for you.

    By the way: 06 8C DB 8D B3 12 92 2A DE F3 32 65 79 CF 21 B3

    Belongs to ME! And I’d better not catch ANY of you using it without my expressed written permission, or there will be hell to pay!

    HELL TO PAY!

  410. I think I’ll go put mine on a t-shirt right now.

  411. 4E D1 E6 7C E5 0E 2F 08 E1 34 0A 55 63 D3 D9 63
    Next… Profit!

  412. Don’t even THINK about using EB 46 01 50 35 C7 15 32 27 05 15 97 F8 4A E3 8C, or I’ll take your home, bank account, and retirement pension. It’s all mine, baby! Hahahahahaha!!!

  413. Does the fact that the number is being sold on t-shirts, coffee mugs, mousepads and other properties all over the Interweb grant the number “other significant uses besides circumvention” and thus remove the numbers protection under the DMCA?

  414. 5D 4A F0 D9 58 04 3B 06 C8 B2 59 85 A1 5D 6A 88

    For the record!! This ones mine. You can look but don’t touch.

  415. Thanks. It would be nice to get the code that decrypts our new integers as well. In fact an encrypting/decrypting page would be great fun. Everyone could then encrypt their own copyrighted haikus.

  416. Me, me, me…

    A7 E9 3F 2C E6 75 A0 84 7D AE DA C7 D0 39 90 5C

    and me too.

    : )

  417. billy bob says

    must mark my claim…
    DF 21 12 3C 2E 1D 93 F5 CC 57 89 E4 CC A1 2D E4

  418. Wait, I accidentally generated the code that HD-DVD already uses. No what?!

  419. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman says

    DC EC 59 6D 8E 2A 86 E3 B6 93 D2 82 2B BC D0 40

    This is my 128-bit integer. There are many like it but this one is mine. My 128-bit integer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my 128-bit integer is useless. Without my 128-bit integer I am useless.

  420. This whole pathetic debacle only reinforces how stupid crowds are. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon of outrage that “they” can’t “own a number”, when that was never the point or assertion in the first place. Go find something worthwhile to get morally outraged about.

  421. I think I’ll just go by 71 8B if that’s okay with you all…

    71 8B BC E6 53 B8 8A A3 93 28 8C 1C 8B 88 56 9E

  422. Surely publishing *that* the number can decrypt some *particular* copyrighted work has to do with it. It’s been a while since I read the DMCA, but would anyone say a number in isolation itself constituents circumvention technology, or is it the number + how to use it that’s relevant?

  423. How do I un-deed this number that was just generated for me? It has a “13” it in.

    I’m not superstitious (because being so is bad luck), but I don’t want forced ownership of unlucky numbers.

  424. How do I un-deed this key that was just generated for me? It has a “13” it in.

    I’m not superstitious (because being so is bad luck), but I don’t want forced ownership of unlucky keys.

  425. underwhelm says

    I will be very surprised if the AACS actually sues anyone merely publishing “their number.”

  426. I wonder how small a key can be and still be a circumvention technology.

    Even at 64 bits, let’s say I land-grab 2^40 of those numbers (easy, even if I have to list them explicitly.) Now, a random 64 bit integer has a 1 in 16 million chance of belonging to me. Therefore any reasonably long 64 bit computation will violate the DMCA. Worse, if a few million people get together, we can own the entire 64 bit space.

  427. all your bits are belong to me.

  428. manchmod says

    If I can own one integer, why can’t I own all of them?

    I hereby declare ownership of all integers 8192 bits and smaller.

  429. “A similar issue arose with CSS (the system used in old-fashioned DVDs), which is hardly a trade secret any more but its owners claim that circumvention code violates the DMCA.”

    However, DeCSS was a program. The 09 number is just a number–a revoked key. The legal argument will have to take this difference into account. Now that the number is no longer a trade secret and the key has been revoked, it is it really a “circumvention device”? If I have a key to an old apartment and the locks have been changed to I still have a circumvention device?

    (BTW, do I have to burn any demand letters from AACS LA that include the number? I’d hate to have to archive such a hot potato in my files since they AACS LA might sue me for possessing such a “device” since theoretically just having it is allegedly as illegal as distributing it.)

  430. sidereal says

    Now why can’t I just use the AACSLA’s number? And then sue them for promulgating a device to circumvent the encryption of my haiku?

  431. My crack legal staff points out that AACS LA’s number is hardly a secret — it’s all of the Net and AACS LA even sent out demand letters containing the number — and they still claim the right to sue people for publishing it. A similar issue arose with CSS (the system used in old-fashioned DVDs), which is hardly a trade secret any more but its owners claim that circumvention code violates the DMCA.

  432. Rob, it’s actually very easy to compress a list of all possible 128-bit integers down to zero(!) bytes + a 1-liner decompression program… 😉

  433. I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but if you publish the number you may lose the right to claim secrecy. That’s how it works with Trade Secrets.

    I am unsure about circumvention devices though–maybe the law is different.

    Ed—what does your crack legal staff say?

  434. You’ll have to pry 20 30 1D EB 13 02 0B FA C5 71 09 67 BD 8F 83 9E from my cold dead hands, you cretins!

  435. Rob,

    The numbers come from /dev/random on a busy Linux system, so I wouldn’t worry about collisions.

  436. Barry – it will be difficult to collect enough numbers by some random method to make a difference – a the thing about 128-bit numbers is that there are a whole lot of them, and you can surely think of some better use for the billions of petybyte hard drives you’d have to have lying around (I may be off by a significant number of orders of magnitude in any direction).

    However, what is the period of the PNRG being used here? It would be embarrassing, not to mention legally complicated, if two of us gave our mothers the *same* key for Mother’s Day.

  437. I wondered about that processing key. Surely, the processing key does have a commercially significant use other than circumvention. It has it’s genuine use in the wares of the aacsla.

    I asked my attorney, Perry Masonry, and he said that although it was an interesting point, it would fail because the keys don’t have any lasting commercial value – not even to the aacsla.

  438. What happens on the off-chance (1/2^128) that THAT 128-bit integer 0x09F9… comes up?

  439. Clever idea!
    Makes its point in style. But wait:
    Too short to protect?

  440. I R A Darth Aggie says

    I’ve declared ownership over all prime numbers, known and unknown…pay up, suckers!

  441. What? I can’t own 21 or zero because they have “commercially significant uses other than to circumvent”? Hmm…but what if I decide to use a certain 128 bit number as a key? Can they prevent me from doing so and publishing my key publicly and thus granting it a commercial significance?

    Well, then, this brings also up the question of what part of publishing the “09” number is alleged to be illegal. Is it the publishing of the number or is it the identification of the number as being a key?

    Since the AACS keys are all supposedly secret and random, AACS can’t claim to own any of them so I’m assuming that only implied or express comments that a certain number is an AACS key can allegedly make its posting illegal. A website that makes no comment as to the origin of a random 128 bit number it posts might be a different matter, likewise a list of random 128 bit keys which might or might not list any numbers starting with “09.” Would a demand letter have to specify the number in question in such a case and could the demand letter be posted. One wonders what a crack legal staff would think….

  442. Kjartan Þór says

    will you be keeping track of issued integers so that no two persons get the same one and also for trace if one would want to enforce the ownership 😛

  443. According to our crack legal staff, part of what makes the number yours is that it has limited commercially significant uses other than to circumvent. That’s not true about 21 or zero.

  444. I’m going to encrypt a poem using the interger 21. I admit that such a short key will make the encryption easy to crack, but then I’ll OWN 21, a number I happen to like.

    Next, I’m going to use ZERO as a key. As soon as I own zero, I’m going to try to stop all international artihmetic from happening! The DMCA protects both good and bad encryption, doesn’t it?

  445. Anonymous says

    Whilst we are on the subject of keys and strings, I was wondering about DVD Jon.

    He registered the domain name deaacs.com. but he has not been prominant in the recent HD saga, and there is nothing hosted at that domain.

    But what got me thinking is that the admin email address for deaacs.com is

    and I was wondering what the significance is of the string

    fe61a7fd2fda93bf490b6187dd55c477

    which, coincidentally, has 32 characters to it.

    Anyone any ideas?

  446. I get DE AD BE EF BA DD F0 0D

  447. dr2chase says

    Well, these are mine, and don’t anyone get any ideas otherwise:

    0x56dfa013 0x5c1e0d2f 0x3aab43c9 0x03a19fe9 0x0c3679d3 0x6cc54e71
    0x258f951d 0x21ed7817 0x1bb6c345 0x689b8d8d 0x48d51cb7 0x46ad91cd
    0x52db2a55 0x1095aef5 0x1196e735 0x164dd83d 0x78ba8693 0x45b701af
    0x2f0e039f 0x547a88bb 0x403bf571 0x06b5ea1b 0x0f5e60ab 0x799988b3
    0x2e7a950b 0x72438977 0x2b5d129d 0x34d4d32b 0x674f07c1 0x56ab29a5
    0x0d370ce7 0x3702d675 0x1b495e99 0x02bd6759 0x7c722593 0x1af228d7
    0x38ae921f 0x323e4ad3 0x53d41ae9 0x3f4e82c9 0x62772b45 0x3594fc0d
    0x308cff29 0x6167259d 0x568d9669 0x15ae06af 0x207986ef 0x5d5a0e2d
    0x8f738ad 0x56a88f8d 0x1317529f 0x1244f6db

    (Why these? prime, 16 set bits, also inverses modulo 0x7fffffff, 0x80000000, 0x100000000 are prime, and X+0x10000000 is irreducible in GF(2^n).)

  448. Sure, a 128 bit integer is nice — but is there any reason I can’t have an 8- or 16-bit integer? FE1F is mine! And 0DE1.

  449. The amusing thing is that, conceivably, a person could use AACS to encrypt their own copyrighted content (say, home movies of their child’s birthday party), but use an arbitrary key rather than the one that’s been circulating around the Intarweb. Said key would then, under the AACS LA’s interpretation, also become a circumvention device.

    So, all we have to do is start encrypting our own copyrighted content with increasingly larger portions of the 128-bit search space and making the same assertion that AACS LA made. For that matter, we could use a different 128-bit encryption scheme, use the aforementioned key, and then accuse AACS LA and MPAA members of distributing a circumvention device (namely, the key that they have distributed to each other and currently use to encrypt their content). After all, it doesn’t matter whether you actually use a circumvention device for anything illegal – simple trafficking is enough to land you in hot water.

  450. Chris S says

    Ah! But the new code does work!

    73 5A 54 E8 25 B6 28 69 BD 2F BB 8D 22 6F 5B 36!!! Mine, all mine!!!

  451. Chris S says

    “Not Found” doesn’t appear to be an integer in any numbering system I use regularly.

    More to the point…

    [Erroneous address redacted. Sorry for the error. — Ed]

    … returns a 404 error.