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Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt

Posted by kdawson on from the toothpaste-back-in-the-tube dept.

fieryprophet writes "An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along with the account of the diggers who submitted them. Diggers are in open revolt against the moderators and are retaliating in clever and inventive ways. At one point, the entire front page comprised only stories that in one way or another were related to the hex number. Digg users quickly pointed to the HD DVD sponsorship of Diggnation, the Digg podcast show. Search digg for HD-DVD song lyrics, coffee mugs, shirts, and more for a small taste of the rebellion." Search Google for a broader picture; at this writing, about 283,000 pages contain the number with hyphens, and just under 10,000 without hyphens. There's a song. Several domain names including variations of the number have been reserved. Update: 05/02 05:44 GMT by J : New blog post from Kevin Rose of Digg to its users: "We hear you."

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  1. I'd like to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're one of the endless little "Slashdot is dead, go to digg" trolls that reply to stories every now & again, I (and the rest of slashdot) would like to say: "Fuck You".

    Your wonderful little Digg isn't looking so wonderful now - is it?

    In comparison to Digg's censorship, slashdot has the hex key as a story tag.

    1. Re:I'd like to say... by Marcion · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hello, I can fix it for you. At the back of the computer, there is a socket called the Ethernet socket, pull the wire out and go sit it a dark room. Everything will be fine.

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      My little Linux and tech blog
    2. Re:I'd like to say... by nmb3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, this is just great! Thanks a lot guys! We thought we'd give this a fair run, see how things went, etc. I think we've been fair, very patient, but after the stunts pulled today I'm afraid we've spoken to our lawyers and we have to pull the plug. You only have yourselves to blame. Thanks for helping us test the system. So long.

      - Al Gore

      +++AH*$*&*^!NA(*$&!(HDSF....[ NO CARRIER ]

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      "What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
      /)
    3. Re:I'd like to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wow, typing in numbers into a discussion site is terrorism huh, who knew the terrorist meme could be so versatile and applicable to everyday common activities? I guess that makes numeracy the equivalent of 'trained with a terror group', majoring in mathematics becomes 'mastermind bomb maker', and pi becomes 'terrorist literature'? What about the 1s and 0s floating over the innertubes, are they terrorist training manuals? UnAmerican?

      Ironic that such a mindlessly retarded comparison could be made by someone calling the digg people 'kids'.

    4. Re:I'd like to say... by Cylix · · Score: 4, Funny

      In the spirit of a new fad...

      Where is your digg now?

      --
      "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
    5. Re:I'd like to say... by bhima · · Score: 2, Funny

      I didn't get mod points for at least three years after the Gore / Bush election. Anyway on the forth year I sent a single email and I started getting them again. I have no idea what sort of algorithm is used to decide who gets mod points and how often (and I've never looked at the code) but I think there's something hinky with it.

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      Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
    6. Re:I'd like to say... by TheoMurpse · · Score: 4, Funny

      done by a now-disbanded and dishonoured editor (Michael Sims, 'Nazi Editor')
      I'm glad this has finally been brought up, because it's been bugging me -- I never saw an announcement on /. about his departure. I just noticed one day that he hadn't posted any stories in a while. I wondered about whether the Censorware stuff caught up with him finally.

      Google turns up nothing except for obvious fake explanations of what happened involving multiple acts of sodomy and a few members of the Free Software Foundation :/

      Wikipedia doesn't have anything either. Can someone just tell me what the heck happened?
    7. Re:I'd like to say... by thanksforthecrabs · · Score: 5, Funny

      A Scientology article was censored? What did the person say -- that Scientology is a looney, brain-washing cult that sucks people of their money? And that the cult's highest-profile member/actor recently married a beard again in an attempt to resurrect his career? I'm not saying that stuff is fact...just asking if it was said. Big diff.

    8. Re:I'd like to say... by apostrophesemicolon · · Score: 3, Funny

      okay man, do NOT ever Australia.. okay? Something bad will happen if you Australia!!!

    9. Re:I'd like to say... by inode_buddha · · Score: 2, Funny

      Here, have some coffee.

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      C|N>K
    10. Re:I'd like to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Just shut the fuck up and live your life quietly. Don't push on others."

      Congratulations! You have won the Slashdot Hypocrisy Award of 2007, given to the post exhibiting the most blatant hypocrisy while inexplicably being modded +5 (albeit temporarily).

      To pull off such a post requires the straightest face and the greatest lack of internal consistency. For this, you have earned our praise.

      Again, congratulations; the future holds great things for you. Who knows, you might successfully run for Congress with such a puritanical, gay-bashing, drug-fearing attitude. That, combined with the inability to see what's wrong with you telling other people to stay out of your business... well, let's just say you couldn't have won this award without both.

    11. Re:I'd like to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Digg has become a place to pimp stories on pro-gay or pro-illegal drug issues. No, I'm not a christian zealot, I'm an atheist. I'm just sick of these assholes waving their flags in my face. Just shut the fuck up and live your life quietly. Don't push on others. You want to do dope and cook your brain, go right ahead but do it in private. You want to gobble some cock? Go right ahead but do it in your own home and not in the middle of the street. I'll stop gobbling cock in the middle of the street once you stop having drunken orgies in the open. Stop flaunting your heterosexuality in my face! Do that stuff privately damnit!
    12. Re:I'd like to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you Australia too much, you'll grow hair on your palms and then you'll go blind. At least, that's what they told me.

      Doesn't take much to stop Australia, after a while you get USAd to it.

    13. Re:I'd like to say... by DamonHD · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Folsom Street Fetish Fair? http://gallery.hd.org/_c/places-and-sights/US-CA-S an-Francisco-Folsom-Street-fetish-fair-dancer-in-s uspended-cage-tweaked-mono-1-DHD.jpg.html Yes, definitely an eye-opener! But actually I saw nothing 'lewd' on the street at all. Rgds Damon

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    14. Re:I'd like to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      i for one am sick of these heterosexuals pushing their lifestyle in everyone's face. Pictures of their "husband" or "wife" on their desk at work where everyone has to see it, constantly mentioning mentioning them to co-workers when talking during lunch breaks, even bringing in not just photos but the actual CHILDREN that are the consequence of their heterosexual activities.

      Look, it's your business if for some reason you have no self-control and find it necessary to put your private parts into the private parts of a member of the opposite sex... it's none of my business if for some strange reason you find it necessaary to do that... but keep it and the infant results of your "lifestyle choice" hidden at home and stop being so blatant about it.

    15. Re:I'd like to say... by wamatt · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can't stand it when people throw the "terrorist" label around. No matter what the cause, IMHO it's irresponsible. Period. When bombs start going off, then we can start looking at terrorism as a possible motive. Otherwise, forget it. Oh god no. The truth has blinded us. I think we may be dealing with a "terrorist" here boys. Right here in our very own slashdot.
    16. Re:I'd like to say... by edittard · · Score: 3, Funny

      there is a kind of "censorship" every day on slashdot because the stories chosen and disgarded are those chosen and disgarded by the editors, not you.
      That's not really censorship. It would be censorship if they were making the decision based on the contents of the stories, but an obvious prerequisite for that is missing.
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      At the bottom of the /. main page it says 'Yesterday's News'. Well they got that right.
    17. Re:I'd like to say... by iogan · · Score: 4, Funny

      If any of you (corporate shills) are reading, let me know if there's a job opening sometime... since all I do is read slashdot all day I might as well get paid.

      --
      Nyhetsankaret.com -- det bÃsta av Sveriges Nyhetssido
    18. Re:I'd like to say... by Jonny_eh · · Score: 3, Funny

      He's a shill!! Get him!!!!

    19. Re:I'd like to say... by indifferent+children · · Score: 2, Funny
      Someone posted a copyrighted portion of the scientology bible (or whatever they call it). Because it was copyrighted material, and a seemingly serious legal threat was issued, the offending comment was removed.

      It's a nitpick, but IIRC, their claim was that the document is protected as containing Trade Secrets, rather than copyright.

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      Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
    20. Re:I'd like to say... by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Funny

      int(rand($member_count * 0.9)) you mean.

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      Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
    21. Re:I'd like to say... by kestasjk · · Score: 2, Funny

      All you have to do is read the tech articles. Back when ZFS was rumored into Mac OS X the comments at slashdot were insightful, intelligent, and informative. Exactly, on Slashdot everything you see is insightful, informative, or funny. On Digg the posts aren't any of these, so the best case scenario is that they're all underrated.
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      // MD_Update(&m,buf,j);
    22. Re:I'd like to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Close. It's actually int(rand($omg_ponies * 0.9)). (sorry)

  2. So..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got a 404 error the first time I checked this.

    How Ironic.

  3. Toothpaste.. by craznar · · Score: 5, Funny

    The harder you sqeeze, the more comes out.

    MPAA Lesson of the day.

    00110000001110010100011000111001001100010011000100 11000000110010001110010100010000110111001101000100 01010011001100110101010000100100010000111000001101 00001100010011010100110110010000110011010100110110 00110011001101010011011000111000001110000100001100 11000000100000

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    EMail: 0110001101100010010000000110001101110010 0110000101111010011011100110000101110010 0010111001100011011011110110
    1. Re:Toothpaste.. by airencracken · · Score: 5, Funny

      Governor Tarkin: Princess Leia, before your execution, you will join me at a ceremony that will make this battle station operational. No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now. Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

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      Hell is other people - Jean-Paul Sartre
  4. Frickin' Hilarious by Lije+Baley · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the funniest thing I've seen since reading the "Slashdot Trolling Phenomena" entry in Wikipedia.

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    Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
    1. Re:Frickin' Hilarious by Old+Wolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is the funniest thing I've seen since reading the "Slashdot Trolling Phenomena" entry in Wikipedia.

      That page has now been removed (it redirects to Slashdot). But I did learn something useful - prime-number user IDs are considered valuable by some. Funnily enough, I checked mine and it is prime. All I have to do now is sit back and wait for my plan to come to fruition.

      1. Discover your user ID is prime
      2. ???
      3. Profit!

    2. Re:Frickin' Hilarious by digitig · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mine is divisible by four primes. Does that make it four times as valuable?

      --
      Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
  5. Quick to rise.... by nobodyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    And quick to fall. I cannot believe how swift and concerted this response is. I bet the digg admins are kinda wishing they had, oh I dunno.... EDITORS?

  6. Free Speech "Snowcrash" by Foktip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its like digg imploded from too much freedom... into a continuous fuzz of meaningless crap (basically like april fools day on the uncyclopedia.org). I CANT WAIT to see the next episode of diggnation!!!

  7. Re:Credibility by dunezone · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love Digg, I love Slashdot, I love Reddit. But you're right, today they lost alot of credibility. I've had my own blog on the front of Digg, I wrote it simply because I enjoy being on Digg. Unfortunately, over the past few months we started to notice that certain stories were being pulled from the front page or not even allowed on the front page. We complained and commented on the accounts but nothing ever came about it. Today though, Digg couldn't get away with what they did and their paying for the mistake right now. I made this in response: http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1087/pic4gp6.jp g

  8. Re:Just so you know by dynamo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank you. Someone mod that up so I can find it if I ever need it later.

  9. Re:Credibility by DavidLeblond · · Score: 5, Funny

    Raise your hand if you are surprised.

    Digg is a website that is only as good as the users that contribute to it. Its user base is a bunch of people that... well... lets face it, watch Diggnation.

    I rest my case.

  10. Re:Was this duped on purpose? by Marcion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well it is about time, they went out of their way to say how much greater they were than Slashdot, and all the kids drank Kool-Aid. Now our team gets a goal :-)

    Yes I am English, and everything becomes a football analogy, your problem is?

    Can you hear the Diggities sing
    noooooooooo, noooooooooooo
    Can you hear the Diggities sing
    I CAN'T HEAR A 09 F9 11 THING!!!!!

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    My little Linux and tech blog
  11. Re:Wikipedia by micksam7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The key has also snuck into other places on wikipedia as well. :)

  12. Re:This saddens me by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 4, Funny

    we slashdotters are honored by your honesty, and we hope you documented your feelings in your blog.

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    If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
  13. Re:P.S. Digg This by alex4u2nv · · Score: 5, Funny

    In order to get Dugg, you must first title your article with "Coolest ... you'll ever see!!!"

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    -Alex. http://bit.ly/1iVPtfA
  14. Old Joke by Kenshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    - "Digg's community is revolting!"

    - "I know! And they seem pretty upset about something too..."

    --

    Does it make you happy you're so strange?

  15. Re:Poor Digg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've never seen anything like this before, it's probably unprecedented. (I know I've been digging HD-DVD stories all day long)

    I wonder if it's the end of Digg...


    You mean, like, did they finally arrive in China? Hard to say, but the culture is very similar.
  16. 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0? by Wicked+Zen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait a sec, now there's new bad numbers? Oh, 4 8 15 16 23 42, your reign of terror is over!

  17. From the article: by dominious · · Score: 3, Funny

    An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com
    The number you are looking for is 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
  18. Re:Digg management are full of hypocrites by Jubalicious · · Score: 1, Funny

    Taking it one step further, the HD-DVD coalition is responsible for HD-DVDs. A few of these HD-DVDs contain the movie Apollo 13, which as you may have guessed it, stars Kevin Bacon.

    DAMN YOU KEVIN BACON!

  19. My poem to the digg editors by JFMulder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Roses are #FF0000
    Violets are #0000FF
    All my encryptions
    Are belong to 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

  20. Re:Fark's response... by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Funny

    fark is dead since the redesign anyways. long threads take forever to load now, and the whole site looks like carebear bukkake

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    Snowden and Manning are heroes.
  21. Re:Digg meltdown by nimid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been watching this develop tonight, and Digg has gone into meltdown, not so much in the technical sense but in the sense that the user base is in open revolt...

    I've always found Digg users to be revolting...

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    A hundred and twenty characters ought to be enough for anyone...
  22. A great pic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here's a good retaliatory pic:

    http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h195/mjbw99/DIGG _HD_DVD_KEY.jpg

  23. The most common number in the universe by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Funny

    must be 09,F9,11,02,9D,74,E3,5B,D8,41,56,C5,63,56,88,C0

    Future data archaeologists will be dumbfounded by this number and will no doubt ascribe great religious significance to it.

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    Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
  24. SLASHDOT RULEZZ! by PeterHammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Long Live /.

  25. Re:too little too late by NerdOfPrey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Still, an opportune moment to dust down those "Free Kevin" placards.

  26. Re:Change of Heart by McFadden · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll say one thing for all of this. Although I think it's garbage and wouldn't normally watch it, I'll certainly be interested to see the next episode of Diggnation and see what those two bozos have to say for themselves after their car-crash of a site exploded.

  27. Re:Fark's response... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    > fark is dead since the redesign anyways. long threads take forever to load now, and the whole site looks like carebear bukkake

    Score: (+6, Sidesplit)

    Today, Digg.com goes down in flames for being run by morons! Tomorrow, Drew gets clubbed like a baby seal. (Warranty void if seal is broken!)

    Hey, he'll get over it.

  28. Re:Was this duped on purpose? by jamie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not saying the editor did it

    We didn't.

  29. Re:I'd like to say...(is pure flamebait) by iMac+Were · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't like gay PDA?
    Apple are bringing out a handheld? Want one want one want one!
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    You thought my name meant what? How very dare you!
  30. Re:I'd like to say...(is pure flamebait) by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Funny
    Don't like gay PDA? Well, imagine how some gays feel about hetero PDA.

    II'm pretty sure Sony Clie is gay. And I've always assumed my Palm V is hetero.

  31. I'll take....... by cowcabobism · · Score: 2, Funny

    Underscore Pat.

  32. Re:You think that's funny.... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comments are owned by the Poster.

    I don't see why a guy who's ever only posted one comment to this site gets to own everybody else's comments...

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    This guy's the limit!
  33. Dear MPAA: Is this copyrighted too? by ProteusQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    hex2dec 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

    ans =

              1.325627888798946e+37

    What about this?

    hex2num 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

    ans =

            1.273668854538564e-260

  34. Re:Why strong IP law is so attractive: by UESMark · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice comment, Hiro Protagonist.