Digg fights user revolt over HD-DVD ban -- Digg founders took HD-DVD sponsorship

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by rwalker • 19 years ago

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Sam_Odio• 19 years ago

Digg's response: http://blog.digg.com/?p=73

Edit: huge update, digg surrenders - http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18652

rwalker• 19 years ago

Update: every single story on the Digg front page is now related to the HD-DVD key. This is certainly an interesting event in the history of community based sites.

nickb• 19 years ago

Digg's mistreating of their user base will take them down the Friendster path. Oh well...

Alex3917• 19 years ago

This is a really interesting case study. Especially since it seems as if hundreds of new users are migrating over to Reddit. I wonder if there will be any noticeable impact in Reddit's traffic because of this.

Goladus• 19 years ago

I think what makes this the most interesting of all is that from the standpoint of stomping out knowledge of the key, AACS's attempt at censorship has resulted in a flat-out catastrophe.

I don't own an HD-DVD player, and have never made any effort to learn how to break its encryption. I'm sure many people are just like me. If it wasn't for the user revolt I wouldn't know about it. (I don't typically use Digg, and use Reddit only rarely)

Digg fights user revolt over HD-DVD ban -- Digg founders took HD-DVD sponsorship

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