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That reminds me, 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Straight off to jail with you!
For those who don't remember this- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
I know about it, but didn't recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it.
Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence
Which means (according to DeepL)
And now I'm confused, why.
That's not Japanese, there's some Chinese and Korean characters in there too. Turns out if you decode random bytes as UTF chars you will probably get a CJK character lol
OK, yes, that obviously makes sense, considering the amount of these Charakters.