[ Digg this! ] The ongoing digital revolt over at Digg can be easily summed up with this nice picture of their frontpage:
Short story?
1) Hex Code to Crack HD-DVD DRM released
2) Stories submitted on Digg and went to the frontpage
3) Digg receives DMCA notice
4) Digg deletes all stories about the HD-DVD hack
5) Diggers found out HD-DVD sponsored Diggnation
6) Diggers revolt against censorship
6) All stories on the Digg frontpage now displays the HD-DVD fiasco
And the magic code that broke the wisdom of the crowd — 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0.
[tags]digg, fiasco, hd-dvd, hex code, kevin rose, jay adelson, 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0[/tags]
Hahaha.
All in all, I was tempted to join the fun… but nah, I diggress.
Since this morning, submitting a story to Digg was halted.
As of this afternoon, Kevin Rose succumbed to the pressure of the digg community, allowing all post about the magic code:
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
Lesson: in a democracy, it’s in the best interest of the leaders to listen to the constituency.
[...] The office internet was crummy today and I just found out about the Diggnation Chaos. [...]
[...] this code all about? It’s the key that unlocks the content of every HD-DVD available today. Yuga has the full story on this, and here is my message to the HD-DVD [...]
Twitter: MikeAbundo
says:
The MPAA is wrong. The code is a leaked trade secret, neither a copyrighted work nor a circumvention device.
If the MPAA sues Kevin Rose, Kevin will win.
Twitter: MikeAbundo
says:
Actually, it’s not even a leaked trade secret. It’s a legitimately reverse-engineered trade secret.
I was laughing my head off kanina but I eventuallt got bored of it. I’d rather read the other more newsworthy diggs. I mean, it’s revolutionary but the HD-DVD thing just doesn’t peak my interest.
hmmm way too techie for me. anyways, off topic: kept hearing ur name last eb. hope u were there. hopped from marhgil’s blog. hope u visit my blog when u have time. God bless
[...] Digg chooses Sponsors over Users? [...]
…shows you how immature diggers are.
[...] However, the Digg community, perhaps used to the notion of the community itself having the power to determine what happens to the entries (frontpaged, buried, or simply ignored), acted strongly against what they felt was censorship on the part of Digg. They revolted by flooding the site with entries relating to the encryption key, which filled the front page. Some of these entries garnered record DIGGs or votes, even (screencap here). [...]