Original sentence: Because the encryption key is not executable code but may nevertheless be a part of circumvention technology forbidden by the DMCA, it is being treated as an illegal number.Many people opposed to the expansion of intellectual property rights criticize the arguments as the banning of a particular number, which they feel should not and cannot be controlled by a single person or group.The HD DVD encryption key controversy arose in April 2007 when the Motion Picture Association of America and the Advanced Access Content System License Authority (AACS LA) began issuing  notices  to websites publishing a 16-byte hexadecimal number, beginning 09 F9 ..., which can allegedly be used as part of a method to circumvent the digital rights management on HD DVDs.The controversy escalated in early May 2007, when technology news site Digg received a notice and then removed numerous articles on the matter and banned users reposting the information
Edited sentence: Because the encryption key is not executable code but may nevertheless be a DMCA violation to publish, it is being treated as an illegal number.Many people opposed to the expansion of intellectual property rights criticize the arguments as the banning of a number, which they feel should not and cannot be controlled by a single person or group.The HD DVD encryption key controversy arose in April 2007 when the Motion Picture Association of America and the Advanced Access Content System License Authority (AACS LA) began issuing Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices to websites publishing a 16-byte hexadecimal number, beginning 09 F9 ..., which can allegedly be used as part of a method to circumvent the digital rights management on HD DVDs.The controversy escalated in early May 2007, when technology news site Digg received a DMCA notice and then removed numerous articles on the matter and banned users reposting the information