SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 — The geeks are in open revolt.

A throng of tech-savvy Internet users have banded together over the last two days to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the movie industry to prevent illegal copying of high-definition movies.

The broader distribution of the code may not pose a serious threat to the movie industry, because only sophisticated technologists can use it to tailor the decryption software capable of getting around the copy protection on Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. But its relentless spread has already become a lesson in mob power on the Internet and the futility of censorship in the digital world.

Read full article (New York Times, May 2, 2007)

More articles:
Wikipedia
Financial Times (May 2, 2007)
CNET (May 2, 2007)
Oh Nine, Eff Nine

Note: this is too important to not mention it here, since the the fate of DRM has effect on museums.

Update:

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Live by the community, die by the community. (Wired, May 3, 2007)

Something I read in my online wandering. Yet another sign (albeit not a recent one) of people not taking the museum’s exclusivity anymore.

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But there are still only 152 blogs listed:
http://www.ideum.com/blog/2007/05/01/152-museum-blogs-20000-posts/