Digg chooses Sponsors over Users?

[ Digg this! ] The ongoing digital revolt over at Digg can be easily summed up with this nice picture of their frontpage:

Digg HD DVD Fiasco

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]

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

11 Comments

Michael says:

18 years ago

Hahaha.

All in all, I was tempted to join the fun… but nah, I diggress.
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Michael says:

18 years ago

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.
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Mike Abundo says:

18 years ago

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.
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Mike Abundo says:

18 years ago

Actually, it’s not even a leaked trade secret. It’s a legitimately reverse-engineered trade secret.
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Aaron Roselo says:

18 years ago

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.
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aMgiNe says:

18 years ago

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
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Berlin says:

18 years ago

…shows you how immature diggers are.
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