The Digg Meltdown

For posterity, this post, because the pics speak a thousand words.

There is a master key that enables you to decrypt HD-DVD kicking around on the internet at the moment. Folks are sharing this simple key, and of course HD-DVD People are trying to get people to stop sharing this code. People are sharing the code on Digg - but in a rather unexpected move, Digg is shutting down people who post the code. Accounts are going kaput. Deleted. Diggers are being silenced.

So the Diggers are revolting!

And it's even made All-Topics:

The headlines make the story...

Oh yes, Digg took money from HD-DVD for advertising. That's not going down so well. Explanation from Digg here: "we're just doing takedown as per the law". The law doesn't say "ban accounts" though, does it?

Comments

[Tom]

Maybe Digg will learn from this - you shouldn't mess with people with nothing better to do.

[Dave Rickey]

Digg founder surrenders to the revolution, promises to fight to the death against whatever the HD-DVD consortium throws at them:

http://blog.digg.com/?p=74

--Dave

[Dave Rickey]

Oh, note the title of his blog post. Might as well be damned for a sin of commission.

--Dave

[snarf]

Wild. That's digital revolt. I like it in a funny way.

[bigwig]

Diggs quality has sank as it grew in popularity. Inevitable with a lot of social network sites, but i still really like it.

Ugh. If digg gets sued into oblivion because a bunch of spoiled brats insisted on super cool teenage rebellion...

I understand that its a social site, but thats a sad end to a website.

[Alice]

Eeh, I'm not sure you can classify everyone there as a bunch of spoiled brats.. it's funny how we market so much to teens, and yet they have the least disposable income. Most of them can't afford HD-DVDs, let alone the players, I'd wager.

Amazing post by Kevin Rose.

[jay]

A little late to this party, but I believe Digg (eventually) did the right thing (by siding with the users). This is just history repeating and the loser here is DRM the way I see it.