Digg Taken Over By The HD DVD Encryption Key, and Submissions Mysteriously Stop Working
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Ever since users found out that Digg is censoring content regarding the HD DVD encryption key from its homepage, and blocking users who posted the content, there seemes to be a revolt at the popular news site (Could it be because the HD DVD Promotion Group is a sponsor of Revision3?). The homepage, second page and third page are all filled with stories that mention that key. Guess this is what happens when social news sites go wild.
UPDATE: Digg user submissions mysteriously stop working, hmmmmmm, intentional? Also, stories involving the hex key seem to have manipulated digg counts.
Do you think Digg has the right to bill itself to be a social news site, after this very public riot? To quote Chad: “Diggnation will be interesting to watch this week”
Everybody’s favourite hex code IN WALLPAPER!! > Here!!
Digg it!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
Nice wallpaper.
They’ve shut down article submissions.
LOL
I fully intend on submitting a blog post that I wrote
I was going to submit something hd dvd related but right when I did the submit didn’t work. It worked 2 min before.
You can pick up the code t-shirt here:
http://www.cafepress.com/dlkmadsen.129054705
update: submissions are now working, the front page is hit with new submissions of hd dvd postings
now that is true uneasy silence.
for the novice reader, http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1104
I never tought that Digg’s end would be a number.
It’s like LOST
They certainly have the right, but they can kiss a lot of their users goodbye after this.
What exactly is this code? Cause I just woke up and then looked at my DIGG RSS feeds and see all of these numbers everywhere.
They posted some new news at http://www.blog.digg.com. It looks like they are dealing with all the posts and not deleting anything anymore. Digg is really really down now.
The code means you can copy HD DVD’s
Digg is back up now … for the moment!!
From Kevin’s Blog:
“…after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Digg on,
Kevin”
:-/ everyone is going to kill digg…
This made me laugh !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HaNbsIfp0
I see the t-shirts coming…with “the number”!!!!
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74?
and the top story is the hex key, at 11200 and growing at upto 100 a minute
The revolt worked – and it looks like you can commemorate the uprising with a t-shirt, LOL. Isn’t there a tech conference coming up we should all wear this to? http://www.cafepress.com/saggingsquirrel
top story of all time now @ 26,000+
I wish I actually knew what to do with the code :(
LOL- grats on the uprising.
this is fucking stupid. There’s a damn good reason why Kevin and the crew didn’t allow it in the first place. Hell there’s actually a couple good reasons. One being that sponsor. And 2 being the legalities. Digg is, hands-down, one of the best places on the Net. For it to go down in a wave of lawsuits concerning something that can be found in PLENTY of other places is incredibly stupid. Grow the hell up people and stop being douchebags.