Huge User Revolt At Digg

haaah, heard abouyt that. Digg crowd is quite rebellious if you ask me, they want thier own way. Much like adolescents!

I heard they are going to take legal action now on this one against the users. Good luck with that.

Now 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.

Digg 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.

I 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.

Either 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.

Lol 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 :)

lol gotta love the internet.

Check out some of the code artworks:

http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/more-09-f9-11-0...

http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/artwork-titled-...

and T-shirts to promote the revolution:

http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/more-09-f9-11-0...

http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/01/09-f9-11-02-9d-...

and a song:

http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/05/02/09-f9-11-02-9d-...

Hey!

Nice blog, and nice post. There has been an update to this at...

http://www.allsortgroup.com/blog/web/125/

:smile:

dugg.

idk it seems kind of counterintuitive is digg is taken down...

It 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.

Is it even legal for them to allow the posting of the code?

Got you covered, John - Dugg!

This is what we called Web 2.0 :twisted:

Dugg, hope it brings in some traffic...as if u need it! :P :evil:

this is hilarious

Power to the people ... dugg too :twisted:

Sounds a bit crazy tbh. This is why I rarely use Digg, it's such a heap of nonsense really. :roll:

hot diggedy. burn the reichstag.

I 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... :wink:

Dugg John

The power of Evil lives Muhahahha :twisted:

I dugg it for ya ;)

Not sure, but maybe kevins blog post might help digg tide over this revolt, and make the war btw diggers and advertisiers

it 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.

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/lesso...

As Flavor-Flav along with Chuck D once said "ya gotta fight the powers that be! FIGHT THE POWER!"
Yo drop that rhyme in overtime G!

Anyone know what plugin that john uses to display the digg link (and 3 other social media links too)???

-thanks

digg is gone down probably trying to pacify the revolt.

Maybe digg is looking for cash+publicity= :evil: method to get news

digg is down
theyve pulled the site down now! :mrgreen:

Their 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.

As of 1:44 EST, digg is displaying an "Out Of Service" page. Let the speculation begin!

Did I just write digged? :shock:

Dugg, dugg, dugg :smile:

It looks like Digg gave in. http://blog.digg.com/

Check out the picture here:

Digg Funeral

And while you're there... digg it!

Digg'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.
Nick
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Well 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.

Glad to see that someone is encouraging piracy! :wink:

Nice post,

-Sam from MarketMatador.com

diggg ftl