Last night, Digg.com underwent a user rebellion. Digg removed many posts -- and terminated the accounts of some of its users -- for posting a 16-digit hexadecimal number that is used to lock up HD-DVD movies. The number -- a "processing key" -- was discovered by Doom9 message-board poster muslix64, who was frustrated by his inability to play his lawfully purchased HD-DVD movies because of failure in the anti-copying system.
While I like that they proved Digg is fully user controlled, what really bothers me about this is that of all the issues that they could be showing power on, it's over HD-DVD. The world is hell and they worry ove whether their movies are clear enough. Jeebus.
..via Boing Boing
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