Raúl Santos
This is beautiful. I just wish people would unite like this all over the world, concerning other aspects that are far more important than this.
From Slashdot, “Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt”:
"An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along with the account of the diggers who submitted them. Diggers are in open revolt against the moderators and are retaliating in clever and inventive ways. At one point, the entire front page comprised only stories that in one way or another were related to the hex number. Digg users quickly pointed to the HD DVD sponsorship of Diggnation, the Digg podcast show. Search digg for HD-DVD song lyrics, coffee mugs, shirts, and more for a small taste of the rebellion."Search Google for a broader picture; at this writing, about 283,000 pages contain the number with hyphens, and just under 10,000 without hyphens. There’s a song. Several domain names including variations of the number have been reserved. Update: 05/02 05:44 GMT by J : New blog post from Kevin Rose of Digg to its users: “We hear you."
An excerpt from that blog post:
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.
It’s not as if people want something illegal or unfair. Actually, what’s unfair is what these big companies try to do. When are they going to understand that no matter what they try to do to hurt our rights and earn more money from it, people will always find a way around them?
Oh, by the way, 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 ;)