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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. Digg management are full of hypocrites by cioxx · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Since its inception Digg had a community-driven submission and voting process which did not supress free speech. I've seen endless stories and links to torrent sites like piratebay, demonoid, bitme, et al. and Digg management turned a blind eye on directing users to places of "copyright infringement"

    Today it's different for some reason. One of the managers posted a justification on the official blog:

    Whether you agree or disagree with the policies of the intellectual property holders and consortiums, in order for Digg to survive, it must abide by the law. Diggs Terms of Use, and the terms of use of most popular sites, are required by law to include policies against the infringement of intellectual property.


    Funny stuff.
  2. Digg is a piece of shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Notwithstanding the fact that most articles are either innacurate or stupid, they will IP ban anyone who says anything bad about their site. Digg is one step up from "myspace"

    Also, you can get a perm ban from digg if you use the star of david as your "digg icon"... no kidding!

  3. Honestly curious... by ParadoxDruid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Digg actually posted a reply to the community on their blog here.

    What I'm honestly curious about is this: Is this numeric string code copyrighted? Where is the copyright filed, if so? Or is it a trade secret? Do trade secrets need to be filed or declared somehow? Is a trade secret intellectual property that must be removed when a theatening (maybe DMCA) notice is sent?

    I'm nowhere near understanding the complexities of the current intellectual property legal codes in the USA, let alone how they actually apply in this situation. All I see is hysteria.

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  4. Wikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wikipedia has chosen to speedy-delete the article and all similarly titled articles based on the hexadecimal number. I found the deletion review at this link. It seems like the only way left to get the article undeleted is to present good arguments there. I, for my part, have been blocked by another admin for posting my undelete comment. It looks like censorship is in season.

  5. On-topic comment by Old+Wolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Something that nobody's explained, since this story broke:

    Whose bright idea was it to use the same 128-bit symmetric key for every DVD ??

    NB. Please don't mod this off-topic just because I said it wasn't.

  6. Intriguing. by jd · · Score: 5, Interesting
    In a day and age when Big Brother is all but day-to-day reality, the government is prohibited from censoring but corporations are actively encouraged. Corporate censorship is probably worse than Government censorship, in that corporations produce things - and sometimes those things have turned out to be harmful in some way, or sometimes quite lethal to the user. Said Vioxx. Other times, there have been very very narrow escapes - aspartamine was never clinically tested and this information was actively suppressed for some time. Turns out it does impair brain functioning, mildly. Sony did everything in its power to limit knowledge of the rootkit it released and the potential damage it could cause, on a less hazardous - but potentially expensive - note.

    Yet as the grandparent post shows, there are those determined to believe only governments can censor, and there have been many cases where people have attempted to sue companies over first amendment rights. Censorship can happen between any two or more individuals, and you ONLY have rights when it comes to the Government.

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  7. They should have learned from Slashdot by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the things I like about Slashdot is how they handled the Cult of Scientology thing. Slashdot complied with style. Cowards, by contrast, have no style.

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  8. Re:I'd like to say... by Score+Whore · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nope, sorry, the results tantrum over the troll post is still in place. I know because I don't get mod points.

  9. Digg is offline by xaviel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Digg is officialy offline, the revolt suceeded!!