Digg & the HD-DVD decryption HEX key
Pretty funny, the noteworthy geeky comment of the day has to be about Digg. Unhappy users buried the site with thousands of "diggs" pointing to URLs hosting the newly cracked HD-DVD encryption key, which can be used to decrypt the high-definition discs and copy their content. This occurred in retaliation to the site owners attempting to remove any postings referencing said key after they got a cease-and-desist letter from another company asserting that the posts violated its intellectual property rights. The community eventually won, the Digg's CEO made an announcement saying they would stop trying to remove user postings. A test case for the power of user-generated content on social networking sites.
It's all over the news.
Unhappy Digg users bury site in protest
Digg's DRM Revolt
It wasn't long before Cafepress.com and other places started offering t-shirs with the 09-f9-... code on them today, haha.
05/02/02007 6:20 PM
