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EFF and Dvorak Blame the Digg Revolt On Lawyers

Posted by kdawson on from the jet-fuel-on-a-fire dept.

enharmonix writes "A bit of an update on the recent Digg revolt over AACS. The NYTimes has taken notice and written quite a decent article that actually acknowledges that the take-down notices amount to censorship and documents instances of the infamous key appearing in purely expressive form. I was pleased to see the similarity to 2600 and deCSS was not lost on the Times either. More interesting is that the EFF's Fred von Lohmann blames the digg revolt on lawyers. And in an opinion piece, John Dvorak expands on that theme."

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  1. Re:By no means are my defending lawyers by spyder-implee · · Score: 2, Funny

    By no means are my defending lawyers Me Fail English? That's Unpossible!
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  2. Hell must have frozen over... by rwyoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dvorak is making sense.

  3. You might be a Redneck AACS lawyer if... by skoaldipper · · Score: 5, Funny

    you digg your own grave rather than rob anothers.

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  4. Insult Dvorak if you want, but he by kernel_pat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes a damn good keyboard layout though

    1. Re:Insult Dvorak if you want, but he by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

    2. Re:Insult Dvorak if you want, but he by Phroon · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sorry, your post wasn't modded funny yet, so how was I to know?

    3. Re:Insult Dvorak if you want, but he by fbjon · · Score: 4, Funny

      An English guy is telling a joke in the EU parliament. All the Brits laugh immediately, the French laugh after a short moment as the translator catches up, the Germans laugh as the translator reaches the verb at the end of the sentence, and the slashdotters laugh 15 minutes later when the first +1 Funny comes in.

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  5. Blame the Lawyers! No blame Dvorak! by rueger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait a minute - Dvorak says to blame the lawyers??

    Oh my... I am so conflicted..... who do I complain about?

    Oh, right - Microsoft!

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  6. Huh? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Funny

    and documents instances of the infamous key appearing in purely expressive form.
    Like in poetry? A haiku? What?
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    1. Re:Huh? by MadUndergrad · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  7. Re:Uh... lawyers didn't cause this? WHAT? by SharpFang · · Score: 2, Funny

    Prior (oldest known) professions of:
    - congressmen: lawyers
    - women: whores

    seems right.

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  8. Re:Digg is the most childish site ever.. by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe h*s keyboard *s broke.

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  9. Re:Takedown notice - put it online! by Peter+Simpson · · Score: 2, Funny

    The humorous part of the whole takedown notice thing, was the list of pages to be taken down...one of which was /09-9f.....html
    So, then, they have to issue a takedown notice for the takedown notice...which I gather they didn't bother to do.

  10. Re:Ah, yes, the douchebag Dvorak by Z0mb1eman · · Score: 2, Funny

    (and yeah, this worked most of the time, although today the technique is generally frown upon, as it is considered to be of questionable ethical judgement) Yeah, now it's limited to corporate takeovers :p
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