So today was an interesting day on the social news website digg.com. A code needed to break the copy protection on HDD-DVDs was released on the web for all to use, however it was removed by moderators (same thing happened on wikipedia ect.) due to violating rights. However digg.com is the users site, so following the removal a ton of users have been posting the code in various shapes and forms.. the community wants the code public no matter what. Hearing the crow Kevin Rose had this to say:
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
So i figure why not post the code here as well 😉
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Also here are some of the more funny ways of posting it i found, but there are lots more:
Newsstory about the encryption
Update
hehe i cound Userfriendly take on the story funny too 😀 Userfriendly – HD DVD Sudoku
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