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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 Cylix · · Score: 4, Funny

      In the spirit of a new fad...

      Where is your digg now?

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      "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
    4. 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?
    5. 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.

    6. 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!!!

    7. 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.

    8. 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.

    9. 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.

    10. 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.
    11. 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.

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

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

  2. 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
  3. 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?

  4. 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.

  5. 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!

  6. 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.

  7. 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
  8. Re:Wikipedia by micksam7 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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?

  12. 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
  13. 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

  14. 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.
  15. 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!
  16. SLASHDOT RULEZZ! by PeterHammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Long Live /.

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

    Not saying the editor did it

    We didn't.

  18. 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.

  19. 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!