There is a full scale revolt in progress at Digg.com

[Renew Deal]

The short story is that someone posted the key to unlock HD-DVD encryption on the internet. Someone at digg.com posted it. The post was deleted. Someone reposted it. That post was also deleted and the user was ban. Then the internet version of the LA Riots began.

www.digg.com

[DBoon]

1. amazing to see this in action

and all the clever ways to post this key

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. I eagerly await the next...

diggnation podcast... It has been an interesting evening over there.

Also:
http://www.metafilter.com/60808/User-revolt-at-Digg
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/0235228&threshold=-1
http://reddit.com/info/1mj8f/comments


edit :: as of 10:40PM Digg is down... The site that kills sites is dead. Amazing. Some nerds in SF are having a very bad night.

[Renew Deal]

3. Digg backed off and the world is happy again.

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Digg_This_09_f9_11_02_9d_74_e3_5b_d8_41_56_c5_63_56_88_c0_4

[supernova]

4. So, is that the code?

that 09 f9 string?

[Renew Deal]

7. Yes

[Joe Fields]

5. sounds like something my son would do

[bbernardini]

6. There's a right-wing blog that claims the left is trying to bury any "conservative" stories on Digg.

Hot Air, or something like that.

[Renew Deal]

8. The left isn't burying stories.

Digg has a pragmatist bent. That means that most right wing bullshit gets filtered out. I've seen right wing stuff there, just not the normal crazy bullshit. Digg is also very Obama friendly. I think that's because most Digg users are young techie types.

[Scurrilous]

9. It might be littlegreenfootballs (LGF).

Just about every story submitted from LGF is immediately dugg down.

Much whining and seething commenced:

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24563&only

[Scurrilous]

10. Digg bends to users' will on AACS encryption key

Web site gives up removing posts with the code for cracking encryption on HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/02/digg-bends-to-users-on-aacs_1.html

<snip>

"Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, threw in the towel on Tuesday night. By that point, Digg executives had spent hours in a fruitless battle to remove repeated posts to the community news Web site that contained a key needed to crack the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption used to limit copying of HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs.

The company began removing the posts after it received a cease-and-desist letter from another company claiming these posts violated its intellectual property rights.

As soon as Digg removed one post with the AACS key, another one popped up. And then another one and another. In the end, Rose gave up and announced in a Digg blog post that the company would no longer fight its users over the issue.

"You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be," Rose wrote.

"If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying," Rose wrote. His post did not name the source of the cease and desist letter, but the letter likely came from the AACS Licensing Administrator LLC (AACSLA), which oversees the encryption technology."