If any of you are regulars at Digg.com, you may have noticed a revolt going on, that has just taken a huge burst the last couple of hours.
It all started when the mods at Digg.com deleted a story which contained a code that broke the encryption on HD-DVDs (It’s Microsoft, you knew there was a way). Anyways, after this occured, they began censoring comments containing the code, etc.
It has turned the once ‘For the people, by the people’ website that digg held into complete chaos. Now people are creating stories with the code, and the entire front page is covered, take a look yourself.
Article taken from: http://yro.slashdot.org/
“Digg is imploding today. Literally. The site’s million plus users have turned on Digg’s management, covering the entire site with an HD-DVD encryption key that the moderators were fighting to remove. You can’t even submit a story right now, and frequent 404 errors mean that Digg is actually Digging itself, with too many votes and submissions to handle.”
Pretty crazy if you ask me…
[Update]
Seems like Wikipedia has also taken down the HD-DVD and ‘The Numbers’ sites from being edited…
From: Wired.com
Wired blogged the cracked processing key for HD-DVD (you’ve seen it: “09 F9 11 02 …”) nearly three months ago, but The Number’s power still grows. Today, the Wikipedia page named for it has been locked to prevent the former secret from being posted again. The page on HD-DVD is locked, too, to keep out The Number. Wikipedia’s isn’t the only takedown: Digg earlier removed what’s been said to be the site’s all-time top post.
What a waste of time. Piracy is bad, yes, but does anyone really think the magic sequence is going to vanish from the Internet, or even become hard to find? Throw in the towel, folks.
