The Magic HD-DVD Key

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

Wanna know what’s so important about it?
It’s the HD-DVD Processing Key for most movies released so far. This means the (admittedly long) number is precisely the key you need in order to decrypt and watch HD-DVD movies in Linux (oh, okay, maybe software is also required). And the fact that it’s out there, spreading like wildfire, is killing the types at the movie studios right now.
Now, even if this number stopped working (and it will, thanks to the revocation procedures in HD-DVD’s encryption scheme) or if it were a hoax, the decryption system has already been figured out and is implemented in a software program called BackupHDDVD.
It can be done with DVDs and DeCSS, and you can use your trusty MPlayer to play any DVD movie. We will eventually (rather soon) be able to view HD-DVDs in Linux as well (because the codecs are already there, even if they are illegal in some countries).