Digg revolt!

[Newby]

Long story short: user posts two stories about a hex key to allow you to rip your HD-DVD movies to your hard-drive. He gets banned. Digg community goes apeshit.

http://i16.tinypic.com/52wq99c.jpg  http://i12.tinypic.com/5zqjkw5.jpg http://i19.tinypic.com/4qf7cco.jpg <-- Just three examples of everyone revolting. That's the hex code in the pictures. As you can tell, those articles are now protected on Wikipedia. :P

As I write this, the entire front page and then some of digg = references to the key. ;)

slashdot article on it.

What do you think? Did digg fuck up by censoring its users? Are they overreacting?

EDIT -- Looks like he sided with the community: http://blog.digg.com/?p=74?

[Ergot]

Yea, it just got flooded with stories about that.  It was happening all day, here's a sample of the front page RSS feed at ~11:10 PM PDT. Now just imagine that times every hour of the day. (7 pages x 15 stories) and that's only the ones that made it to the front page.

[iago]

I disagree with the word "censoring". Deleting potentially-illegal information is acceptable, and I wouldn't call it censorship.

But in any case, I think it's funny as hell. :)

I love this: http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com/

If I create a domain name that has copyrighted material in it, what happens? For example, a domain name made up of the words to a Britney Speares song or something? Hmmm...