[d@DCC] CBC: Digg users revolt after website removes DVD encryption key

From: alayne _-at-_ twobikes.ottawa.on.ca
To: "General Copyright Discussions (questions, organizing, etc)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:57:55 -0400 (EDT)

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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/02/tech-digg.html

Digg users revolt after website removes DVD encryption key
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | 11:46 AM ET
CBC News

Visitors of the popular news sharing website Digg revolted and briefly=20
shut down the site Tuesday after it attempted to remove information about=
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how computer users could remove digital rights management software from=20
high-definition DVDs.

The issue began after Digg =E2=80=94 in response to a cease-and-desist lett=
er from=20
the body overseeing digital rights technology on HD-DVDs =E2=80=94 began re=
moving=20
references on its site to an encryption key used to lock up HD-DVDs.

The key, which has been available since it was discovered in December, is=
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needed to allow users to play the disc on any machine.

[...]

As stories connected to the software key were deleted, users resubmitted=20
them in the thousands, causing every top story on the site to include a=20
reference to the hack or censorship. At one point, the site briefly=20
collapsed from the volume of submissions.

Digg eventually relented, with founder Kevin Rose saying stories with the=
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software key would no longer be removed.

[...]

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Alayne McGregor
alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca

Journalism "does a glorious job, too, of celebrating the triumphs of the hu=
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that elevate us all ... Accounts of the human potential for selfless courag=
e, for
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