Make that 368,001

[mrs_sweetpeach]

According to BoingBoing, there are now 368,000 web pages containing the number the AACS Licensing Authority wants to keep secret. To quote Cory Doctorow, "Good luck getting the food coloring out of the swimming pool!"

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[mrs-sweetpeach.livejournal.com]

Who's the 368,001th? That'd be me. After jebra told me that some enterprising person realized the 16-digit key could be represented by color codes and began selling t-shirts emblazoned with the resulting color-palette, it occurred to me that I could create a user icon that does the same thing.

The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is a standard for content distribution and digital rights management, which will allow restricting access to and copying of the next generation of optical discs and DVDs. The AACS licensing authority has used legal threats against dozens of sites, promising retribution if the number isn't removed from their pages.