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bwerdmuller — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:16:53 PDT

This may well turn into a major gun-meets-foot incident for the AACS, who have been serving DMCA takedown notices for some time now. Oddly, the notices have mostly been served to links to the content rather than the content itself, but too many blogs have now published the information to properly stifle it.

The irony being that a widely-available code could be a huge step towards HD-DVD winning the format wars.

bwerdmuller

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Doug — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:18:02 PDT

I think a large part of the uproar is over the fact that the only sites really actively "hushing" the key are Wikipedia and Digg; while Valleywag, Wired and all others are (seemingly) unconcerned about legal action.

Let's just call it what it is- the "Web 2.0" generation's version of the DeCSS sprawl.

Doug

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Stephen Sclafani — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:48:50 PDT

This is a good lesson for Digg's community. Digg isn't the EFF.

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Chris Van Patten — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:00:38 PDT

Digg did "censor" the posts [ http://blog.digg.com/?p=73 ]. And then the news broke that HD-DVD sponsored an episode of Diggnation. It's a conspiracy of course!

Gotta love the internet street fight.

Chris Van Patten

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Imakenothing — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:25:36 PDT

Wait arent these the people we should be hiring for one of six cool, lucrative high paying key jobs for thier insight and internet savvy?

How do we know who to hire if theyre all getting banned?

Imakenothing

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Rick — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:18:52 PDT

The hilarious thing about this is that most of digg's users subscribe to two ridiculous things that digg is totally pissing on here 1) That EVERYTHING dissing your point of view is censorship and 2) That "you really can make a difference" on the internets.

More and more front page stories are essentially "activist" pieces. I saw a story with the approximate headline "Joe Dickhead's sister disappeared in Iran, digg this to help!!" as though the digg community has actually ever helped anyone with their collective voice. Don't say otherwise though, these kids think they're making a difference without even leaving mom's basement.

With the perception of being censored combined with this digg-activist mindset, I'm actually interested in seeing the outcome.

Rick