Digg Goes Bananas -or- 'Even Jesus Hates the MPAA'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Wow. :-)

Via The Consumerist.

[snip]

A wide-scale user revolt is disrupting popular social news networking Digg.
It's a protest over Digg acquiescing to MPAA pressure and deleting a
15,000+ dugg story about a crack for the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray DRM system.

Now, every single story on the front page contains the cracked number in
some way.

The madness began after not only was the initial story deleted, but the
user's account was deleted as well. Other people who submitted stories
linking to the number also got their accounts deleted and their sites
received takedown notices. Even people who submitted stories about the
deleting of other accounts, stories which did not contain the number, also
got deleted. That's when things really got bonkers.

[snip]

More:
http://consumerist.com/consumer/breaking/digg-goes-ape-256984.php

Extra happy bonus pic:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_BYX14125JUQ/RjgkYbH28iI/AAAAAAAABMY/ISyMcB_C60g/s40
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Enjoy. :-)

- - ferg

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