I’m back from a nice vacation to Eqypt. So give me a couple of days to read up all the latest news.
One thing did strike me though, the story of how close digg was to losing it all. If you want to read more about the story of a 32 digit hex number (09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0), hacking HD-DVD, digg’s founder Kevin Rose, thousands of digg users, MPAA and RIAA. Basically digg removed any diggs with the above mentioned numbers in them because the lawyers of MPAA and RIAA threaten with lawsuits. Digg made a big mistake doing that, if there is one thing digg’ers hate its being censored so within a brief period digg literally got “spammed” with diggs featuring the 32 digit number. Eventually digg decided they needed to think, so they closed digg.com. Thank god they came back and this time they decided to fight with their users, so Kevin Rose posted the numbers himself. A brilliant move if you ask me.
Mark Blair has written an excellent analysis of the whole issue, it was through his blog I learned about this in the first time. You can find it here
6 May, 2007
Current Affairs, Social Media