That’s right - and Ed Felten was kind enough to offer a number generator which you can use to get a unique one that you can stake your claim on.
This comes in the wake of this fiasco in which companies behind the HD DVD encryption system claimed that the key itself (which is merely a 128 bit number) was part of their “intellectual property”, and issued takedown notices accordingly.
The good news is that there’s a lot of numbers to go around, but you still might want to hurry because they aren’t infinite - it’s the gold rush of the 21st century! Just don’t take 0F 10 3D 94 41 4D B1 E3 5A 14 12 0D AD 12 5B 54 - that one’s mine! And I better not see anyone posting it on Digg either…
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i’m all about 39 03 AE 2D 66 DF 45 0C D3 02 DE 76 B2 CA CE CD.
Everyone already knows I’m number 1.