HD-DVD piracy, Kevin Rose, and Digg-riots |
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If you're a well-informed citizen of the Internet, then you're probably aware of the backlash that Digg is getting for their reported censorship of the HD-DVD code that makes decrypting possible. (Yes, the code that's been out for around a month now.) It's basically a Digg-riot.
Although they initially made a call to moderate their posts, and remove stories that include references to bits of code that the powers-that-be in charge of the security of HD-DVD find questionable, it seems that Kevin Rose has decided to give in to public demand.
Rose writes on Digg the Blog:
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, youÂ’ve made it clear. YouÂ’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we wonÂ’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Digg on,
Kevin
Will Digg die trying? If it would then that would be quite disappointing. Especially since it seems that spreading the codes has become a small Web 2.0 movement in itself. Although the blogosphere seems to be helping in spreading the code, Wikipedia, one of the bastions of Web 2.0, seems cautious. For one thing, the HD-DVD Night article in Wikipedia is still down.
This blogger of course, is a big "pussy" as Niero of Destructoid would say. Hey, I have to eat after all, and I don't want to get into trouble. So, in an effort to satisfy that part of me that loves to listen to Rage Against the Machine music, here's a half-assed attempt: ...D9-74-E3... (not the actual code) you know how the rest of it goes. Anyway, I'll cut it at "E3" that way it's "gaming" related.
So what are the powers-that-be to do now? Especially since the code has become a meme of sorts? What's your take on all of this? Let us know.
We're tagging this under Blu-ray too as it partially relies on AACS (the security that's compromised by the now popular code) to encrypt data. Blu-Ray has two more levels of protection: ROM-MARK (a per factory watermark, which might revoke mass production rights from a factory but not, it seems individuals) and BD+, another encryption system, unlike HD-DVD which relies just on AACS.
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Who cares about Blu Ray or HD-DVD ? Hardly anybody, they are just speckles of dust under the feet of the DVD9 system and will be for years to come.
Corporations versus internet users for control of the internet. The war has started
digg is sucky!
"The biggest problem with the way we been doin' things is ... The more we let you have the less that I'll be keepin' for me"
-T.R
companies make enough money anyway, we deserve free movies...they want protection, then theyll have to make a new encyption system, then theyll need to sell us a new drive that only the rich people can afford
I would love to see you own company and not try to get money. The point of all these companies is to make money. If it was not then how would they survive?
"we deserve free movies" Thats an ignorant statement. Thats like saying i deserve to steal. I do not think you would like anyone to steal what you have made.
Does this matter? Yes, it does to everyone. You figure why it does.
Why was it ok to make copies of VHS? Every company sold a vhs player that could play a tape and record it at the same time. It was common place.
Now, the big companies keep trying to stop this and it just encourages everyone to keep finding work arounds for it.
ok this dude doesnt have a hd tv...nuff said