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Date	Process	Result
October 14, 2015	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
October 31, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
November 19, 2015	WikiProject approved revision	Diff to current version
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 19, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Free Speech Flag (pictured) embeds the secret HD DVD key into the colors of the flag itself, using the flag hex code format colors?
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This article had a review and was successfully promoted to WP:GA quality. Review is at Talk:Free Speech Flag/GA1.

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File:Sample 09-F9 protest art, Free Speech Flag by John Marcotte.svg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Sample 09-F9 protest art, Free Speech Flag by John Marcotte.svg will be appearing as picture of the day on July 6, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-07-06. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:40, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the day

The Free Speech Flag is a flag designed by John Marcotte to symbolize personal liberty and promote freedom of speech. The flag and its colors correspond to a cryptographic key that enabled users to copy HD DVDs and Blu-rays. It was created in 2007, during a controversy in which the Motion Picture Association of America and Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator began issuing cease and desist letters to websites publishing the key. Works inspired by the flag include an audio version, as well as a flag representing the private key for the PlayStation 3.Flag: John Marcotte

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Motivations

The article says:

> Marcotte was motivated to create the flag after the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA) began issuing cease and desist letters to websites publishing the key 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (commonly referred to as 09-F9).

But I see no source for this.

How do we know this specifically were his motivations?

In fact, do we know that the "nation" Marcotte refers to is the United States? Mago Mercurio (talk) 01:44, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]