Jack Valenti may be dead and buried, but even from the great beyond he seems to be working his particular brand of lunacy. It seems that there’s a hex number floating around that unlocks the encryption code for High Density DVDs. We can argue all day as to the rights and wrongs of this but as far as the law is concerned this is very much a big no-no.

Rather than tending to a true fix for this, the MPAA decided the best course of action was to send out the storm troopers armed with a batch of litigation threats addressed to the likes of Google and Digg telling them they had to pull down any pages that published or linked to this hex number. Initially Kevin Rose and the rest of the Digg boys did as they were told, but recently Kevin posted they had a change of heart after listening to the wishes (see: rage) of the Digg community. This is a really ballsy move on the part of Rose and Digg and it sends a strong message to the MPAA that once again the masses are not going to tolerate such attempts at censorship.