Huge User Revolt At Digg
It looks like the users at Digg are pissed off at Digg for removing a story featuring the HD DVD Processing Key. HD DVD is a Digg sponsor and told Digg to remove the story. Digg was going to say to no but then they remember the golden rule - he who has the gold, rules. So the story got pulled. That did not sit too well with the Digg users, who are now in a full scale revolt by front paging every story featuring the HD DVD Key, which is 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0.
Now, can someone Digg this so I can hit front page? Maybe this will finally break me out of auto-bury. 
*Update - It looks like Digg pulled their submit page. A site the depends on user submissions is not allowing users to submit. I wonder how that works?
*Update to the update - The submit page is back. You can submit my post now.
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Good luck - fight the powers of the auto-bury!
Reply to this commentI think we should be fighting sponsor induced censorship rather than ‘auto-bury’. In my opinion, this marks the end of Web 2.0 ‘user generated content’ and the start of Web 3.0 - ’sponsor approved user generated content’.
Reply to this commentagreed
Reply to this commentmaybe it’s not legal to share the keygen code
Reply to this commentThere’s no maybe about it.
Reply to this commentI’m going to wait till 3.1. Windows 3.0 was too buggy.
Reply to this commentThat’s hilarious. I love the best mathematical riddle one.
Reply to this comment
It’s not a riddle. It’s the encryption key.
Reply to this commenthe is reffering to a great submission that had the code hidden in a riddle
my favorite was the hex color code image
Reply to this commentI was wondering why there was so many HD DVD key stories showing up at digg.
I would submit this post if I could, but it looks like I lose network connection everytime I try to open the submit page.
Reply to this commentWhen I went there to see what the deal was it looks like everyone and their mother submitted duplicate posts about the revolt
Reply to this commentthe submit page is up again … be evil and dugg
Reply to this commentWhat is it supposed that key is for?
Reply to this commentIs it some security code to open what?
Allows you to make copies of the disc or something.
Reply to this commentSo much for you name huh? The hash sum is for playing ALL HD DVD on Linux. That’s right no other OS, just Linux.
Reply to this commenthaha, that’s a good one!
Reply to this commentThis is state of the art copy-protection - well according to the industry. But anything they throw at consumers will undoubtedly be hacked or cracked and available for all to see on the Internet.
Reply to this commentHey John,
Reply to this commentJust Dugg the post and found that it has already been dugg 34 times but i went ahead and did it anyway !!
Wow this is going to ruffle more than a few feathers. Digg just lost all credibility with its user base.
While you are correct that he who has the gold, rules - without the users, nobody will pony up any gold to keep the site running.
Reply to this commentI agree but then again their credibility has been in question and tarnish way before this
digg is a ’sell-out’
Reply to this commentThey didn’t lose all credibility. If anything, users now know that they can heavily influence Digg and will feel better about it since they can make them do whatever they want.
Reply to this commentThe users could always influence digg… now digg is telling the users what they can and cannot digg. They’ve taken away the one draw that site had - control by the users.
Reply to this commentthis is awesome, way to go masses!!!
Reply to this commenthow did they know it got pulled?
Reply to this commentwhen something you always visit suddenly gone in 60 seconds.
Reply to this commentI was trying to think of websites that would be reporting on this. Yours was the first that came to mind. Low and behold you made a post, but it was just another “Oh, theres heaps of people digging stories related to this number, put me on there!” type post. No insight into the situation.
Reply to this commentJoin the revolt!!!
Digg this!
Reply to this commentI dugg the post John….no need to thank me!
Reply to this commentdugg it too
Reply to this commentOn a related note, I wonder when Digg will be bought out by a larger website and for how much?
Reply to this commentdigg is a neat feature, like facebook crating status instead of buying twitter. easily replicated. no big angel for digg. Seriously i am not usually this snarky.
Reply to this commentanytime soon. it’s only either google.com or microsoft.
Reply to this commentWhile I won’t discount the possibility of them being sold, I’d be surprised if there were any buyers for any reasonable price.
It’s a hornet’s nest of potential problems. If it went up for sale cheap, someone would take it, but as it stands nobody’s likely to pay top dollar for it in the near future. From my perspective at least.
Reply to this commentCan anyone see Kevin Rose’s next silicon valley party getting smaller by the second. Sad but this marks the death knell for Digg as a serious innovation. The stories have sucked recently, mostly link bait…
Reply to this commentDugg.
Reply to this commentDugg the story at 73 diggs, now its at 59 diggs…
Hmmm, I wonder how that works?
Oh, and they deleted my comments.
Good job digg, screw you.
Reply to this commentWell looks like you are still on the auto-ban list John, that sucks
Reply to this commentHaha, so that’s why there are so many HD-DVD stories. That’s awesome…
Reply to this commentYou digg???
If digg is going to sell out.. then lets sell digg out.
Reply to this commenttough luck john…
Reply to this commentDigged.
Reply to this commentkeep john on auto-bury!!!
Reply to this commentI got a evil way to improve my Alexa ranking by taking advantage of it!
To know how, please come and digg: http://www.kennyp.cn/links/09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 
Reply to this commentOpsss… I mean digg this: http://digg.com/tech_news/09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0_7
Reply to this commentdiggg ftl
Reply to this commentGlad to see that someone is encouraging piracy!
Nice post,
-Sam from MarketMatador.com
Reply to this commentWell i think digg will gain publicity from this. Every one will want to know whats going on. The thing is this article was writen by wired who owns reddit, which is similar to digg. Second the posting of the encryption key infringes the owners intellectual property rights. So you guys would not like if some one posted your phone number on a website.
Reply to this commentDigg’s actually auto-deleting a lot of the stories that have that stupid number or HD-DVD in the title. I was messing around with submitting stories about the fiasco linking to my blog (yes, I’m guilty of trying to take advantage of the mob rule
and noticed that several of my stories completely disappeared. While I think that it sucks that the digg homepage is being flooded with shit stories, I think trying to censor further is just going to keep adding fuel to the fire.
Reply to this commentNick
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Check out the picture here:
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And while you’re there… digg it!
Reply to this commentThat’s awesome
I just hate the “don’t sell out” quote. I greatly dislike that phrase in general.
Reply to this commentdude, your post always has a link to your homepage
Reply to this commentIt looks like Digg gave in. http://blog.digg.com/
Reply to this commentoh cool that was unexpected
i guess they realized its better for a company to be mad at you than the users who made you
Reply to this commentVery gutsy move. But I think it was the only way to save face. Now they can wait for something legally binding and prove that they “tried”.
Reply to this commentDid I just write digged?
Dugg, dugg, dugg
Reply to this commentAs of 1:44 EST, digg is displaying an “Out Of Service” page. Let the speculation begin!
Reply to this commentTheir site is totally down now probably while they clean up the mess but it won’t do any good. I foresee the spam happening for days at least and when digg removes it all, the longtime users might just evaporate, leaving a wasteland.
Reply to this commentdigg is down
Reply to this commenttheyve pulled the site down now!
digg is gone down probably trying to pacify the revolt.
Maybe digg is looking for cash+publicity=
method to get news
Reply to this commentAnyone know what plugin that john uses to display the digg link (and 3 other social media links too)???
-thanks
Reply to this commentIt’s a FeedBurner feature.
Reply to this commentAs Flavor-Flav along with Chuck D once said “ya gotta fight the powers that be! FIGHT THE POWER!”
Reply to this commentYo drop that rhyme in overtime G!
John, it’s a bit crowded in there right now. You actually might be better off waiting until the morning when some of the dust settles and then submitting.
The site is getting slammed and everyone and their brother is submitting stories. As I type there’s a story with 1700+ diggs not buried and not on the front page yet. Talk about a crazy day!
P.S. There’s a lessoned to be learned from all of this: http://www.seorefugee.com/seoblog/2007/05/01/lessons-of-digg-revolt/
Reply to this commentThere’s going to be a whole stack of “aftermath” posts get dugg tomorrow
Reply to this commentDigg chaos…should be a good time to ease up in there and make your presence known a little.
Reply to this commentit is just totally insane. now it is up, later it’s gone.. then it is up again. oh well. unfortunately, I do think that whether we like it or not, they will be sued for violating IPR laws.
Reply to this commentNot sure, but maybe kevins blog post might help digg tide over this revolt, and make the war btw diggers and advertisiers
Reply to this commentI dugg it for ya
Reply to this commentDugg John
The power of Evil lives Muhahahha
Reply to this commentI got the first page in Digg for 3 times. The first time I received 50k uniques in one day, but the Digg traffic isn’t to good. So, don’t bother too much…
Reply to this commenthot diggedy. burn the reichstag.
Reply to this commentSounds a bit crazy tbh. This is why I rarely use Digg, it’s such a heap of nonsense really.
Reply to this commentPower to the people … dugg too
Reply to this commentthis is hilarious
Reply to this commentDugg, hope it brings in some traffic…as if u need it!
Reply to this commentThis is what we called Web 2.0
Reply to this commentThat’s exceptionally insightful…
This does show the true strength behind the people who are moving Web 2.0 forward.
Reply to this commentGot you covered, John - Dugg!
Reply to this commentIs it even legal for them to allow the posting of the code?
Reply to this commentIt will be interesting to see how this plays out now that they are allowing the posts again. Sony will be taking Digg to court for sure. It will probably end up like the p2p networks - while they did not condone the trading of copyrighted material, they allowed it to happen anyway. Same situation here.
Reply to this commentShould be interesting how this one ends, for sure.
Reply to this commentidk it seems kind of counterintuitive is digg is taken down…
Reply to this commentdugg.
Reply to this commentHey!
Nice blog, and nice post. There has been an update to this at…
http://www.allsortgroup.com/blog/web/125/
Reply to this commentThat’s good to know, will definitely check it out. Curiosity has taken over me LOL gotta satisfy it somehow.
Reply to this commentCheck out some of the code artworks:
http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/more-09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/
http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/artwork-titled-09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/
and T-shirts to promote the revolution:
http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/more-09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0-t-shirts/
http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/01/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0-t-shirt/
and a song:
http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0-song/
Reply to this commentlol gotta love the internet.
Reply to this commentLol at those who like to think of all the wonderful things of digg going down.
Their not just going to crash and burn, but build up and keep going. Don’t be jealous, just be amazed
Reply to this commentEither way, I’m still very curious as to how it’s going to end up. It’s just easier to assume that the outcome wouldn’t be favorable to those who dig Digg.
Reply to this commentI do not see how Digg could get blamed for it on their site. Although, with the idiots they get on jury’s now, who knows.
Reply to this commentDigg seems to be experiencing one logical endpoint of Web 2.0’s democritization of web content–user democracy vs. copyright laws. I’ve mentioned before in my blog that the DMCA helped spawn Web 2.0, the question then becomes–does it also contain the seeds of its own destruction? Sorry, didn’t mean to get into Maoist “internal contradiction” talk but it does seem appropriate.
Reply to this commentNow Digg will be taken to court and will most likely lose against the mighty legal team Sony has on retainer. I guess they need to start working on better encryption.
Reply to this commentI heard they are going to take legal action now on this one against the users. Good luck with that.
Reply to this commenthaaah, heard abouyt that. Digg crowd is quite rebellious if you ask me, they want thier own way. Much like adolescents!
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