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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. Hell must have frozen over... by rwyoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dvorak is making sense.

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Re:Huh? by MadUndergrad · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

    Maybe h*s keyboard *s broke.

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