09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
The most powerful number in the world; but not the universe, see 42. This series of hexadecimal shit is illegal in the United States, but not in the rest of the world, as they have sane laws (meaning that this number > the First Amendment), and single-handedly brought Digg to its knees like a dominatrix. In the form of a hexadecimal string.
This incredibly boring line of bullshit is basically a code that will unlock every HD-DVD so far. Fascinating stuff, I know. Apparently some genius hacker, Arzenami, made it and decided to post it on an aspie forum. This sparked an internet circle jerk of panic and rampant nerds getting boners trying the code out and spreading the good word. Everyone keeps posting it everywhere in an attempt to look like an internet tough guy. Google "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" for moar info. This basically goes to show that no matter how hard the motion picture industry tries to prevent piracy, they fail.
PROTIP: HD-DVD r mr gay. We need the machine code for Blu-Ray naow plzkthnx.
[edit] How he did it
To cut a long and boring story short what Arzenami did was make the completely un-remarkable assertion that whether you watch or rip the DVD you'll have to decode it and to decode it you need the key. Armed with this he realised also that to use the key any software that played HD-DVD's would have to load it into the computer's RAM before it was used in the decryption. What he did then was simply ID the part of the RAM being utilised by the HD-DVD playing software and then forced a dump to disk of that area of the RAM. He then simply looked through all the information that was dumped into a text file from his RAM for the string of hex and low he looked upon it and saw that it was good.....so he shared it around, like AIDS except its something you'd actually want.
