When will they ever learn?

All censoring does is make the material more popular than it ever would have been. This is true of movies, music, writing and now - technology hacks. Thanks to pressure from the creators of the DRM scheme for HD DVDs, instead of eliminating the hack that cracks this DRM, folks are now motivated to publish the code wherever they can.

What's the big deal? Well, the industry doesn't feel you have the right to make backup copies of the new Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats, so they've gone out of their way to protect the material. How did that work for ya?

[update] Cafe Press is already (naturally) selling t-shirts with the hex code hack. Yesterday, over 36,000 web pages were publishing the code. May 7th that number rose to over 1,800,000.....