Valleywag
The latest battle between social site Digg and its copycat Netscape comes from Save Digg, a site that tracks the three Digg users that Netscape hired.
Save Digg (unaffiliated with Digg.com) lists the defectors' submissions to Netscape. (Submissions are headlines and synopses of a web page or article, along with a link). The site encourages Digg users to "fill in" for the ex-users (who go by Wayjer, Bloodjunkie, and dirtyfratboy) by submitting the same stories to Digg.
In other words, Diggers are stealing from Netscape what Netscape stole from Digg. And there may be nothing Netscape can do about it. After all, these stories are all someone else's in the first place. Even the headlines are usually lifted from the articles that Diggers and Netscapers link to.
It's an interesting legal situation, sure. But mostly it's just a hilarious idea from the "wise-asses of the crowds."
Save Digg [Official page; photo by urlyart.com]
Comments
yeah, that's a fucking amazing thing to do with one's free time - help the 60 million dollar boy beef up his site by building an army of volunteer evangelists who have no idea what they're actually doing beyond wasting time 'gettin' the man' (but which man?)...
...uh, aren't there real living people and organizations that could benefit from this wasted time?
pathetic...really.
Reminds me of the apocryphal story of a guy who downloaded a song on Napster, then a few minutes later saw the other user start downloading the same MP3 from him.
Hapless guy: "What are you doing?"
Other dude: "Getting my song back, bitch!"
ResearchZilla, maybe your definition of contributing to society is outdated. It's the time of web 2.0! Unless you can feed the hungry or build an homeless kids an orphanage with AJAX, they're shit out of luck.
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