Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt

fieryprophet writes "An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along with the account of the diggers who submitted them. Diggers are in open revolt against the moderators and are retaliating in clever and inventive ways. At one point, the entire front page comprised only stories that in one way or another were related to the hex number. Digg users quickly pointed to the HD DVD sponsorship of Diggnation, the Digg podcast show. Search digg for HD-DVD song lyrics, coffee mugs, shirts, and more for a small taste of the rebellion." Search Google for a broader picture; at this writing, about 283,000 pages contain the number with hyphens, and just under 10,000 without hyphens. There's a song. Several domain names including variations of the number have been reserved. Update: 05/02 05:44 GMT by J : New blog post from Kevin Rose of Digg to its users: "We hear you."

I'd like to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're one of the endless little "Slashdot is dead, go to digg" trolls that reply to stories every now & again, I (and the rest of slashdot) would like to say: "Fuck You".

Your wonderful little Digg isn't looking so wonderful now - is it?

In comparison to Digg's censorship, slashdot has the hex key as a story tag. [slashdot.org]

So.....

[Anonymous Coward]

I got a 404 error the first time I checked this.

How Ironic.

Toothpaste..

[craznar]

The harder you sqeeze, the more comes out.

MPAA Lesson of the day.

00110000001110010100011000111001001100010011000100 11000000110010001110010100010000110111001101000100 01010011001100110101010000100100010000111000001101 00001100010011010100110110010000110011010100110110 00110011001101010011011000111000001110000100001100 11000000100000

Frickin' Hilarious

[Lije Baley]

This is the funniest thing I've seen since reading the "Slashdot Trolling Phenomena" entry in Wikipedia.

Re:Toothpaste..

[airencracken]

Governor Tarkin: Princess Leia, before your execution, you will join me at a ceremony that will make this battle station operational. No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now. Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

Quick to rise....

[nobodyman]

And quick to fall. I cannot believe how swift and concerted this response is. I bet the digg admins are kinda wishing they had, oh I dunno.... EDITORS?

Free Speech "Snowcrash"

[Foktip]

Its like digg imploded from too much freedom... into a continuous fuzz of meaningless crap (basically like april fools day on the uncyclopedia.org). I CANT WAIT to see the next episode of diggnation!!!

Re:Credibility

[dunezone]

I love Digg, I love Slashdot, I love Reddit. But you're right, today they lost alot of credibility. I've had my own blog on the front of Digg, I wrote it simply because I enjoy being on Digg. Unfortunately, over the past few months we started to notice that certain stories were being pulled from the front page or not even allowed on the front page. We complained and commented on the accounts but nothing ever came about it. Today though, Digg couldn't get away with what they did and their paying for the mistake right now. I made this in response: http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1087/pic4gp6.jp g [imageshack.us]

Re:Just so you know

[dynamo]

Thank you. Someone mod that up so I can find it if I ever need it later.

Re:Frickin' Hilarious

[Old Wolf]

This is the funniest thing I've seen since reading the "Slashdot Trolling Phenomena" entry in Wikipedia.

That page has now been removed (it redirects to Slashdot). But I did learn something useful - prime-number user IDs are considered valuable by some. Funnily enough, I checked mine and it is prime. All I have to do now is sit back and wait for my plan to come to fruition.

1. Discover your user ID is prime
2. ???
3. Profit!

Re:Credibility

[DavidLeblond]

Raise your hand if you are surprised.

Digg is a website that is only as good as the users that contribute to it. Its user base is a bunch of people that... well... lets face it, watch Diggnation.

I rest my case.

Re:Was this duped on purpose?

[Marcion]

Well it is about time, they went out of their way to say how much greater they were than Slashdot, and all the kids drank Kool-Aid. Now our team gets a goal :-)

Yes I am English, and everything becomes a football analogy, your problem is?

Can you hear the Diggities sing
noooooooooo, noooooooooooo
Can you hear the Diggities sing
I CAN'T HEAR A 09 F9 11 THING!!!!!

Re:Wikipedia

[micksam7]

The key has also snuck into other places [wikipedia.org] on wikipedia as well. :)

Re:I'd like to say...

[Marcion]

Hello, I can fix it for you. At the back of the computer, there is a socket called the Ethernet socket, pull the wire out and go sit it a dark room. Everything will be fine.

Re:This saddens me

[Tibor the Hun]

we slashdotters are honored by your honesty, and we hope you documented your feelings in your blog.

Re:P.S. Digg This

[alex4u2nv]

In order to get Dugg, you must first title your article with "Coolest ... you'll ever see!!!"

Old Joke

[Kenshin]

- "Digg's community is revolting!"

- "I know! And they seem pretty upset about something too..."

Re:Poor Digg

[Anonymous Coward]

I've never seen anything like this before, it's probably unprecedented. (I know I've been digging HD-DVD stories all day long)

I wonder if it's the end of Digg...

You mean, like, did they finally arrive in China? Hard to say, but the culture is very similar.

09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0?

[Wicked Zen]

Wait a sec, now there's new bad numbers? Oh, 4 8 15 16 23 42, your reign of terror is over!

From the article:

[dominious]

An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com

The number you are looking for is 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0

Re:I'd like to say...

[nmb3000]

Well, this is just great! Thanks a lot guys! We thought we'd give this a fair run, see how things went, etc. I think we've been fair, very patient, but after the stunts pulled today I'm afraid we've spoken to our lawyers and we have to pull the plug. You only have yourselves to blame. Thanks for helping us test the system. So long.

- Al Gore

+++AH*$*&*^!NA(*$&!(HDSF....[ NO CARRIER ]

Re:I'd like to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, typing in numbers into a discussion site is terrorism huh, who knew the terrorist meme could be so versatile and applicable to everyday common activities? I guess that makes numeracy the equivalent of 'trained with a terror group', majoring in mathematics becomes 'mastermind bomb maker', and pi becomes 'terrorist literature'? What about the 1s and 0s floating over the innertubes, are they terrorist training manuals? UnAmerican?

Ironic that such a mindlessly retarded comparison could be made by someone calling the digg people 'kids'.

Re:Digg management are full of hypocrites

[Jubalicious]

Taking it one step further, the HD-DVD coalition is responsible for HD-DVDs. A few of these HD-DVDs contain the movie Apollo 13, which as you may have guessed it, stars Kevin Bacon.

DAMN YOU KEVIN BACON!

Re:I'd like to say...

[Cylix]

In the spirit of a new fad...

Where is your digg now?

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[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Re:Fark's response...

[Lehk228]

fark is dead since the redesign anyways. long threads take forever to load now, and the whole site looks like carebear bukkake

Re:Digg meltdown

[nimid]

I've been watching this develop tonight, and Digg has gone into meltdown, not so much in the technical sense but in the sense that the user base is in open revolt...

I've always found Digg users to be revolting...

A great pic

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a good retaliatory pic:

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h195/mjbw99/DIGG _HD_DVD_KEY.jpg [photobucket.com]

The most common number in the universe

[flyingfsck]

must be 09,F9,11,02,9D,74,E3,5B,D8,41,56,C5,63,56,88,C0

Future data archaeologists will be dumbfounded by this number and will no doubt ascribe great religious significance to it.

SLASHDOT RULEZZ!

[PeterHammer]

Long Live /.

Re:too little too late

[NerdOfPrey]

Still, an opportune moment to dust down those "Free Kevin" placards.

Re:I'd like to say...

[bhima]

I didn't get mod points for at least three years after the Gore / Bush election. Anyway on the forth year I sent a single email and I started getting them again. I have no idea what sort of algorithm is used to decide who gets mod points and how often (and I've never looked at the code) but I think there's something hinky with it.

Re:Change of Heart

[McFadden]

I'll say one thing for all of this. Although I think it's garbage and wouldn't normally watch it, I'll certainly be interested to see the next episode of Diggnation and see what those two bozos have to say for themselves after their car-crash of a site exploded.

Re:I'd like to say...

[TheoMurpse]

done by a now-disbanded and dishonoured editor (Michael Sims, 'Nazi Editor')

I'm glad this has finally been brought up, because it's been bugging me -- I never saw an announcement on /. about his departure. I just noticed one day that he hadn't posted any stories in a while. I wondered about whether the Censorware stuff caught up with him finally.

Google turns up nothing except for obvious fake explanations of what happened involving multiple acts of sodomy and a few members of the Free Software Foundation :/

Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] doesn't have anything either. Can someone just tell me what the heck happened?

Re:I'd like to say...

[thanksforthecrabs]

A Scientology article was censored? What did the person say -- that Scientology is a looney, brain-washing cult that sucks people of their money? And that the cult's highest-profile member/actor recently married a beard again in an attempt to resurrect his career? I'm not saying that stuff is fact...just asking if it was said. Big diff.

Re:Fark's response...

[Anonymous Coward]

> fark is dead since the redesign anyways. long threads take forever to load now, and the whole site looks like carebear bukkake

Score: (+6, Sidesplit)

Today, Digg.com goes down in flames for being run by morons! Tomorrow, Drew gets clubbed like a baby seal. (Warranty void if seal is broken!)

Hey, he'll get over it.

Re:I'd like to say...

[apostrophesemicolon]

okay man, do NOT ever Australia.. okay? Something bad will happen if you Australia!!!

Re:I'd like to say...

[inode_buddha]

Here, have some coffee.

Re:I'd like to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Just shut the fuck up and live your life quietly. Don't push on others."

Congratulations! You have won the Slashdot Hypocrisy Award of 2007, given to the post exhibiting the most blatant hypocrisy while inexplicably being modded +5 (albeit temporarily).

To pull off such a post requires the straightest face and the greatest lack of internal consistency. For this, you have earned our praise.

Again, congratulations; the future holds great things for you. Who knows, you might successfully run for Congress with such a puritanical, gay-bashing, drug-fearing attitude. That, combined with the inability to see what's wrong with you telling other people to stay out of your business... well, let's just say you couldn't have won this award without both.

Re:I'd like to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Digg has become a place to pimp stories on pro-gay or pro-illegal drug issues. No, I'm not a christian zealot, I'm an atheist. I'm just sick of these assholes waving their flags in my face. Just shut the fuck up and live your life quietly. Don't push on others. You want to do dope and cook your brain, go right ahead but do it in private. You want to gobble some cock? Go right ahead but do it in your own home and not in the middle of the street.

I'll stop gobbling cock in the middle of the street once you stop having drunken orgies in the open. [springbreak.com] Stop flaunting your heterosexuality in my face! Do that stuff privately damnit!

Re:I'd like to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you Australia too much, you'll grow hair on your palms and then you'll go blind. At least, that's what they told me.

Doesn't take much to stop Australia, after a while you get USAd to it.

Re:I'd like to say...

[DamonHD]

The Folsom Street Fetish Fair? http://gallery.hd.org/_c/places-and-sights/US-CA-S an-Francisco-Folsom-Street-fetish-fair-dancer-in-s uspended-cage-tweaked-mono-1-DHD.jpg.html [hd.org] Yes, definitely an eye-opener! But actually I saw nothing 'lewd' on the street at all. Rgds Damon

Re:Was this duped on purpose?

[jamie]

Not saying the editor did it

We didn't.

Re:I'd like to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

i for one am sick of these heterosexuals pushing their lifestyle in everyone's face. Pictures of their "husband" or "wife" on their desk at work where everyone has to see it, constantly mentioning mentioning them to co-workers when talking during lunch breaks, even bringing in not just photos but the actual CHILDREN that are the consequence of their heterosexual activities.

Look, it's your business if for some reason you have no self-control and find it necessary to put your private parts into the private parts of a member of the opposite sex... it's none of my business if for some strange reason you find it necessaary to do that... but keep it and the infant results of your "lifestyle choice" hidden at home and stop being so blatant about it.

Re:I'd like to say...

[wamatt]

I can't stand it when people throw the "terrorist" label around. No matter what the cause, IMHO it's irresponsible. Period. When bombs start going off, then we can start looking at terrorism as a possible motive. Otherwise, forget it.

Oh god no. The truth has blinded us. I think we may be dealing with a "terrorist" here boys. Right here in our very own slashdot.

Re:I'd like to say...

[edittard]

there is a kind of "censorship" every day on slashdot because the stories chosen and disgarded are those chosen and disgarded by the editors, not you.

That's not really censorship. It would be censorship if they were making the decision based on the contents of the stories, but an obvious prerequisite for that is missing.

Re:I'd like to say...(is pure flamebait)

[iMac Were]

Don't like gay PDA?

Apple are bringing out a handheld? Want one want one want one!

Re:I'd like to say...(is pure flamebait)

[1u3hr]

Don't like gay PDA? Well, imagine how some gays feel about hetero PDA.

II'm pretty sure Sony Clie is gay. And I've always assumed my Palm V is hetero.

Re:I'd like to say...

[iogan]

If any of you (corporate shills) are reading, let me know if there's a job opening sometime... since all I do is read slashdot all day I might as well get paid.

I'll take.......

[cowcabobism]

Underscore Pat. [google.com]

Re:Frickin' Hilarious

[digitig]

Mine is divisible by four primes. Does that make it four times as valuable?

Re:I'd like to say...

[Jonny_eh]

He's a shill!! Get him!!!!

Re:I'd like to say...

[indifferent children]

Someone posted a copyrighted portion of the scientology bible (or whatever they call it). Because it was copyrighted material, and a seemingly serious legal threat was issued, the offending comment was removed.

It's a nitpick, but IIRC, their claim was that the document is protected as containing Trade Secrets, rather than copyright.

Re:I'd like to say...

[KDR_11k]

int(rand($member_count * 0.9)) you mean.

Re:You think that's funny....

[gEvil (beta)]

Comments are owned by the Poster.

I don't see why a guy who's ever only posted one comment [slashdot.org] to this site gets to own everybody else's comments...

Re:I'd like to say...

[kestasjk]

All you have to do is read the tech articles. Back when ZFS was rumored into Mac OS X the comments at slashdot were insightful, intelligent, and informative.

Exactly, on Slashdot everything you see is insightful, informative, or funny. On Digg the posts aren't any of these, so the best case scenario is that they're all underrated.

Re:I'd like to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Close. It's actually int(rand($omg_ponies * 0.9)). (sorry)

Dear MPAA: Is this copyrighted too?

[ProteusQ]

hex2dec 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

ans =

          1.325627888798946e+37

What about this?

hex2num 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

ans =

        1.273668854538564e-260

Re:Why strong IP law is so attractive:

[UESMark]

Nice comment, Hiro Protagonist.