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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Unhappy Digg users bury site in protest-User Revolt Against Censorship Cripples Site http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714898-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Unhappy Digg users bury site in protest Posted by Steven Musil http://Digg.com users, very upset at the news aggregate site for deleting articles containing an encryption key that could be used to crack the digital rights management on HD DVDs, have inundated the site with thousands of recommendations to pages that contain the code. The protest was apparently heard by Digg administrators, who later reversed the ban. On Tuesday night, the "All topics" category contained several pages of the most popular articles recommended by Digg readers populated only by links to sites that contained the code, as well as messages deriding the Motion Picture Association of America, a proponent of digital rights management and antipiracy measures. Many of the articles had upward of 4,000 recommendations from users. A message purporting to be from Digg co-founder and CEO Jay Adelson posted to the site early Tuesday and explained the rationale behind the site's former stance. "We've been notified by the owners of this intellectual property that they believe the posting of the encryption key infringes their intellectual property rights," the posting reads. "In order to respect these rights and to comply with the law, we have removed postings of the key that have been brought to our attention." Later, a message headlined with the code and credited to Digg co-founder Kevin Rose called Tuesday "a difficult day for us" and explained that site had reversed its earlier stance and would reluctantly allow articles containing the code to be referenced from the site. "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," according to the posting. "...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." LINK TO THE ORIGINAL HACK (CRACK) Posted By: billym Date: Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 12:07 p.m. In Response To: BIG FLAP AT DIGG.COM CRIPPLES SITE (billym) Here's the thread at http://Doom9.com which announced the original hacking of the key code to unlock HD DVDs. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121866 Doom9 is popular site for people doing work in video. It contains guides as to how to make up a backup copy of your DVDs along with other video issues. more at original link
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