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Offline Newby

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Digg revolt!
« on: May 02, 2007, 01:23:26 am »
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?
« Last Edit: May 02, 2007, 01:37:30 am by Newby »
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[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Digg revolt!
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2007, 02:16:08 am »
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.
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Re: Digg revolt!
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2007, 08:53:13 am »
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...
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