digg.com is getting OWND by posts regarding the HD-DVD key lol

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SmoochyTX

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Originally posted by: w3stfa11
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Been around since the middle of February if I recall correctly.

ETA - But it's nice watching Digg going crazy over it now. :p

But only recently have Diggers been banned for posting it. That's the cause of the entire raucous.
Exactly.
 

tami

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Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: AgentJean
Originally posted by: yllus
Not surprising that the Digg community is dumb enough to think this is a "freedom of speech" issue. Exactly what freedom of speech do you have on a privately owned website again? None, you buffoons! Gah.

True, but hasn't the code been "public" knowledge for quite some time now? There's no point trying to defuse a bomb once it explodes. That may be where the outrage is coming from.

Slysoft had HD and AACS support since 2/15 this year.

bomb making information is "public knowledge" too.. will digg take it down because of possible terrorist ties? i would imagine so...

experiment with it, i guess.

it's a matter of being pressured by outside legal authorities in the end. digg can certainly let this in as they please, and trust me, a lot of what passed on digg is questionable to me (then again, 94% of digg is female and i'm in the minority), but when they have to answer the call to a higher authority and risk serious lawsuits for promoting these things, they will act accordingly, not necessarily to the satisfaction to the masses.

I stated in another thread on this that the whole thing was just sad. I agree that Digg has the right to decide whether or not they want to follow the request. If they do not go along with it, they can risk having to get involved in an expensive legal proceeding (regardless of whether or not you agree with what's happening, that is what they have to consider facing). At the same time, the structure of their site and content make it very hard to do this, as people have so effectively shown. If people really want to speak out against this, they should do it themselves, like how people have registered domains with the key as the URL. Posting it up constantly on Digg or a private forum puts that private site at risk. If Digg and other private sites do not want to bear that risk, why should people keep pushing it on them when they have the option of taking up the burden?

catch 22. digg is a private site that is governed by a democratic vote. the rioting has started.

smack down says it nicely.
 

w3stfa11

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This is basically the issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime

Is it illegal to post a number? From Wikipedia, "This question has never been tested in court, and it is possible that the number itself and its possession would be found to be legal, but not a particular interpretation of it."
 

AAjax

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how a site go's from super hip to super not hip in 24 hrs, they will study this in class one day.


Its the end of Digg as we know it, and I feel fine :p
 

Alone

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It's really stupid of the users to put so much pressure on Digg for covering their ass. They don't realize that by doing this, they're screwing over something they apparently enjoyed before. This will only hurt them.
 

Cabages

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Originally posted by: AAjax
how a site go's from supper hip to super not hip in 24 hrs, they will study this in class one day.

Ya, but hopefully theyre trying to discover why it happened to Myspace instead of Digg.
 

Cabages

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Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Digg was never on the level of Myspace. Two completely different areas.

Maybe you didnt understand...

Im hoping they try to discover why Myspace became so uncool in 24 hours, instead of why Digg did.

In other words, im hoping that Digg survives and that Myspace goes down in flames...
 

Alone

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Originally posted by: w3stfa11
Digg is stupid not to disable submissions.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to just filter it.

$post = str_replace("key", "yeah, I suck at screwing Digg over", $post);
 

SmoochyTX

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Originally posted by: Cabages
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Digg was never on the level of Myspace. Two completely different areas.

Maybe you didnt understand...

Im hoping they try to discover why Myspace became so uncool in 24 hours, instead of why Digg did.

In other words, im hoping that Digg survives and that Myspace goes down in flames...
I hope both lose. Myspace is beginning to lose and I hope Digg will fall soon. The community that each community depends upon has become corrupt. Each community has been corrupt for a long time.

Newsvine is much better than Digg and Virb is much better than Myspace. It just takes people longer to migrate to those communities.
 

SmoochyTX

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Apr 19, 2003
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Originally posted by: Alone
Originally posted by: w3stfa11
Digg is stupid not to disable submissions.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to just filter it.

$post = str_replace("key", "yeah, I suck at screwing Digg over", $post);
They have already. They shut down new submissions for over 30 minutes earlier this evening. As soon as they opened it back up it all blew up again.
 

whistleclient

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Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: loup garou
lol, the angry faces really add to the madness

hahahaha. am i the only one who thinks this isnt good for HD-DVDs future? I want HD-DVD to win over BluRay and with the HDDVD key out, studios will favor BR. Now if someone cracked BR and leveled the playing field...

yeah, this could push studios towards BluRay. which means less (or no) HD DVD releases, which means less to pirate.

what i don't understand is the pirates' sense of entitlement. they seem to feel they have the right to steal material and throw around words like "censorship".

the whole thing is childish and stupid and makes me like Digg a lot less.
 

dudeman007

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From Kevin Rose...

Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts?

In building and shaping the site I?ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We?ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.

But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you?ve made it clear. 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.

If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.

Digg on,

Kevin
 

SmoochyTX

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Apr 19, 2003
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Originally posted by: dudeman007
From Kevin Rose...

Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts?

In building and shaping the site I?ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We?ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.

But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you?ve made it clear. 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.

If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.

Digg on,

Kevin
He's a freaking kitty. He forgot where he came from. Sell-out loser.
 

KarenMarie

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Originally posted by: dudeman007
From Kevin Rose...

Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts?

In building and shaping the site I?ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We?ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.

But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you?ve made it clear. 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.

If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.


Digg on,

Kevin


awwww....

 

wetcat007

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lol Digg has been destroyed!!! It stopped loading a few minutes ago now:

We'll be back shortly.

Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes.
 

UncleWai

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I am going to apply for a copyright on Pi. Then all you smart kids will have to pay me a royalty fee for every circle you draw.