hd-dvd fiasco

[linuxgeekery]

what do you think?

also, digg has gone crazy about this: attached is the number of articles from the first page...
The second and third pages are also like this (with more!)

[Sunflower1970]

Ugh. I've seen this just about all day on there.

It was kind of funny at first, but now it's just annoying as Sanjaya was on Amerian Idol

I want to say, now, Who cares? By now, anyone who wants that number has it, and if they weren't lucky enough to get it by now, someone somewhere has it tucked away and they'll be sharing it in IRC's emails, IM's and whatnot.

[DoctorMO]

please explain this from the start so us 'living under a rock' guys can understand.

[aidanr]

well this is what happens when you tick off 15,000 internet users by removing the second most popular digg story of all time

bad move by both the mpaa and digg

keep in mind that the original posting on the doom9 forum from february is still up

[steven8]

please explain this from the start so us 'living under a rock' guys can understand.

I too, am a 'living under a rock' guy. Just exactly what was removed from Digg?

[FoolsGold]

The HD-DVD master key (the key you need to crack everything AFAIK) has been found, so the key is being printed like crazy around the net so that there's absolutely no chance of it being removed entirely from the net by the MPAA or whoever.

[Phatfiddler]

What FoolsGold said, plus a bit more. Digg receives funds from HD DVD and so they not only removed the code posts, but IP banned the users that started these posts. To show that users will not tolerate censorship, Digg users are posting the code as comments in every possible topic, and creating numerous topics using the number to resist the IP bans. Digg, arguing that the number cannot be displayed, banned the users as previously mentioned. To battle this, users are posting ways to get around this, such as posting the MD5 sum of the code, writing haiku revealing the code, and various other methods.

[KiwiNZ]

Please do not post the Key on this site .

We have removed any to date .

If we keep them here it exposes the Forum to the risk of litigation. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter

[steven8]

What FoolsGold said, plus a bit more. Digg receives funds from HD DVD and so they not only removed the code posts, but IP banned the users that started these posts. To show that users will not tolerate censorship, Digg users are posting the code as comments in every possible topic, and creating numerous topics using the number to resist the IP bans.

Hoo-boy. I can't believe they actually thought it would never be discovered. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[steven8]

Please do not post the Key on this site .

We have removed any to date .

If we keep them here it exposes the Forum to the risk of litigation. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter

I wouldn't think of it. . .