Digg users are in revolt over HD-DVD key censorship

[HowlerX]

Don't know if any of you have visited Digg (http://www.digg.com/) lately but its users seem to be in revolt after Digg owners removed an article (or link to an article, since that's how Digg works) that mentioned "the" famous HD-DVD key. The article had over 15,000 diggs when it was pulled.

It's actually kind of amusing. Just a while ago the top 10 news items on Digg were all related to the AACS key in some way. Visit now before all links and articles are removed (most probably).

[Zarxrax]

This is absolutely one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Pretty much all stories on the digg front page are related to this, and hundreds more are being dugg up at amazing speeds. Even wikipedia has had to lock related articles due to the uproar.

[Neu Turd]

pass the popcorn please.....

This is more entertaining than just about everything ever released on HD-DVD

[ChronoCross]

it's entertaining but quickly getting old and ruining digg. That place is usually a place to get interesting stores....not just one thing that 99% of the people who read it are going wtf is HDDVD.

[HD Hell]

Is my understanding correct that someone has leaked a very high level key that is specific to only HD DVD? It's my understanding that AACS are very upset by this.

[wetfeet2000]

I'm curious to see how big of news this becomes tomorrow. I'm also glad to see these forums haven't become an absolute nightmare because of this whole fiasco.

[Revgen]

It's the same processing key that Arnzami released a long time ago. I think it's obsolete now that the April 23rd production HD-DVD's are out. Only discs made before April 23rd will work.

[Zarxrax]

The revolt was a success! Digg decided to give in to the users, their response here: http://blog.digg.com/?p=74?

And this was even reported by the BBC! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6615047.stm

This is probably going to go a long ways towards bringing this issue into the public perspective, which can only be a good thing.

[Inventive Software]

I just posted about this in the news forum... how ironic!

[Guest]

He had no choice. There was no way he could fight that deluge of posts. Don't give him any credit for it. His hand was forced. Now he's trying to spin it as something positive.

[Shinigami-Sama]

it's entertaining but quickly getting old and ruining digg. That place is usually a place to get interesting stores....not just one thing that 99% of the people who read it are going wtf is HDDVD.

Yeah I had to explain that to my classmates, even though we're all in an IT Admin course they're still as ignorant as consumers about video so I had to walk them through it that there is no 'hddvd key' and it was probably a key that was released months ago... only to receive blank stares :rolleyes:

oh well
I'm interested to see what the AAC-LA is going to do about a high ratio of Digg's users which apearntly account for 1% of the USA's net usage. When the hell did that happen?

edit
wow when did I break 1000 posts?

[mr soft]

This story even made the papers in Australia.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21664985-5001028,00.html