HD-DVD Key on Digg :)

As usual when I opened digg the first thing in the morning today, a strange sight greeted me: All the posts on the first page were the Serial Key for cracking the HD-DVD! Talk about pissed off people!!!

Since digg is a dynamic site, I’m posting an image here:

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So, How did this happen? I did a bit of scouring, and found this out:
The HD-DVD processing keys had been cracked by some 1337-d00d and posted on some forum, known as the Doom 9 forum. Cory Doctorow (You’ll know if you read /. ) had posted this key on his blog and promptly received the attention of the AACS -LA(aka. shove-it-down-your-throat group) and received a cease and desist letter for the same. As with bloggers, corporations and cease and desist letters, this has caused an instant uproar, with almost the likes of an internet revolution taking off, with hordes of bloggers posting the keys on their blogs in an act of defiance. I guess this can be counted as a revolution – what the so-called authority tried to do was to silence one voice; ironically they ended up freeing a million other voices. That’s what happens in a revolution, isn’t it?
Then came the digg and wiki bans. People started posting this on digg – the key, in various formats ( In images, as text, as an MD5 hash, as IP addresses, as folder names, as subdomains, as comments, as HTML colors) And these stories got dugg so fast that the latest news section was just full of them. And then digg started banning users and stories and resetting diggs for all posts related to the HD-DVD key. Talk about outrage: the entire digg user community turned against them. Wikipedia had already sold out, its notorious admin policies well known. It banned editing the HD-DVD entry so that people should not post the key on the entry. That was OK, understandable. But when they banned another fresh article on the ongoing party, the community gave up on Wikipedia. But digg got the worst of the lot – It is being accused from all sides. So much for democratic acts.
If all goes well, and the AACS-LA bow down to the pressure, it might as well be the first successful internet revolution. This might as well be the fall of the Bastille. Viva la Revolucion! We shall see what happens…