Scots Taffer on 2/5/2007 at 05:19
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http://www.digg.com/) Digg
Pretty hilarious. Someone cracks the hex crypt key for HD-DVDs and now the door is open wide for HD-DVD ripping programs to be born, and the pirates hijack the internet in the effort to spread the word.
In an effort to suppress the information Digg nuked posts and banned accounts, effectively creating a massive userbase rebellion at the impeachment of their "free speech" and now they're getting bombarded with millions of posts with key. It seems like they've created an untold quagmire for themselves. It was going to be impossible to supress this kind of information on a user-created content site anyway, so they may as well have accepted it instead of getting their site utterly trashed.
It's total HACK THE PLANET sort of stuff. Brilliant.
Gingerbread Man on 2/5/2007 at 05:24
ahahahaha
ps I think digg is one of the gayest things ever, both in concept and execution, but that's neither here nor there
digital media democracy my bunghole
Scots Taffer on 2/5/2007 at 05:30
Yeah, I never ever look at the site, but is getting bandied around at the moment, just thought I'd share it. :D
Anyway, seems like Digg has dugg it's grave.
Gingerbread Man on 2/5/2007 at 05:33
I am just enjoying some rather extremely perverse glee in the fact that Digg is melting down
Firefreak on 2/5/2007 at 06:01
This event is incredible to follow - an internet-wide demonstration. I wonder how or if this will spread to other sites like technorati...
With the new blog entry of the founder, it seems like they now try to make the best of it (i.e. not to be the 'bad' person in all of this).
Plus: I find it funny how people hide the number in various topics (like: "Look, this IPv6 number hasn't been taken yet..." ;) )
edit: Digg just went offline (mainpage disabled)
edit2: technoratis 'wtf' site also just started to report error (or became disabled) -- coincidence? -- back again
scumble on 2/5/2007 at 07:08
As many have been saying for years, the attempt to eliminate the distribution of digital media illegally is doomed to fail. It is simply impossible to suppress information on the internet. There may be some perverse glee in seeing digg come offline, but it's less important whether it was any good as a site, the resistance to control of information is more interesting. This may have just been an encryption hack, but I can imagine that it might be something more important in the future.
Scots Taffer on 2/5/2007 at 07:21
Well, it certainly raises questions about the legal stickiness that can occur when the users control the content, that's for sure.
Firefreak on 2/5/2007 at 07:39
I've had an unfinished thought: Last year it was 'free speech' against religion - now it is 'free speech' against... the law?
I'm sorry if this written thought disturbs too many and I will remove it if so; I want to know your opinions if there are similarities - or not. If it can be compared - or shouldn't...
scumble on 2/5/2007 at 07:50
It's a question of whether copyright laws are mostly a benefit to the large distributors and producers. It's often framed as a question of protecting the intellectual property of artists etc., but they aren't the ones who are making most of the money. It's almost more about the (effective) right to sell CDs (for example) at 17 dollars each than the right to control creative output.
