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The entertainment industry-backed consortium which developed the protection said that it was looking at “technical and legal tools” to confront bloggers who made the key available, saying they had “crossed the line.”

The 32-digit key appeared widely on the internet this week, including in a YouTube video and on T-shirts, and many bloggers considered publishing it as an exercise in free speech, one alluding to Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.

Michael Ayers, chair of the group that built the software, which uses digital rights management (DRM) technology, said that there was “no intent from us to interfere with people's right to discuss copy protection,” and that the body had received "good cooperation from most folk" in preventing the leak of the key.

"Some people clearly think it's a First Amendment issue. We respect free speech – we know some people are critical of the technology,” Mr Ayers told the BBC. "But a line is crossed when we start seeing keys being distributed and tools for circumvention. You step outside of the realm of protected free speech then."

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