Just about everyone is carrying the news about what has happened over at Digg in the last 48 hours. It all started when someone posted the AACS key as a hex encoded format and did what most people do, which is digg your own post. From there the post did not get much attention. Digg got a takedown notice and removed the infringing link from Digg. The poster then reposted the file, only this time it got a lot of attention, over 15K diggs on the site. Digg then re-deleted the file and banned the account. From there it was all downhill for digg until early this morning Digg decided that in response to the amazing human outcry on censorship Digg capitulated and decided to go with what its vocal users wanted, stop taking down information.
Diggs response in its own right is brave in a world where media is not brave at all. Kevin one of the sites owners states in the Digg Blog
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. Source:Suggest a Correction
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