On 5/2/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On May 2, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Anthony wrote:
Can an employee of the foundation please speak up and clarify whether or not we are allowed to publish this key?
Please don't do this, employee of the Foundation.
David is pretty much right here - the issue right now isn't legality, it's notability. We're not a newspaper. Wait a month, see how this plays out, and then we can write the right article. Any article written right now isn't an encyclopedia article, it's a piece of Internet activism about the right to publish the string "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0." Which, as that last sentence demonstrates, I'm all for.
But Wikipedia isn't the place to do that now.
If the Foundation steps in, the message becomes "the issue here is a legal one," and an important editorial judgment is erased.
I completely disagree with your suggestion that this key is not notable. It's not worthy of its own article, true, but if it is legal to publish then it should be published in an article on dvd encryption.
Anthony