I totally missed all of the fun yesterday when the power of the people threatened to bury Digg.com. I have been reading about it this morning though and things seem to be back to normal today.
A post was added yesterday sharing the Hex encryption code to unlock DVD HD and Digg decided to remove it to protect against any legal issues. Digg users responded by repeatedly posting the encryption code 1000's of times over so much that Digg could not keep up with all of the posting. It was totally 'Hack The Planet' in reality.
Eventually, Kevin Rose posted that they were going to stop removing the posts and give in to the requests of the hacker public. This may cause for some serious legal battles for Digg, but they will not go down without a fight.
Pretty crazy if you ask me. It shows the power given to the users and how Digg was not able to do anything to thwart the mass posting. Power to the people! I guess we will wait and see if anything happens in the legal arena.
PS I got the code. Did you?
-c-
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Hi,
I invite you to write a story on this and publish at HULIQ.com which is a citizen journalism news reporting worldwide. You can give a link to your blog as well.
many thanks
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