Digg Gets Owned by It’s Own Users
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Last night the scene at Digg.com was quite funny. It’s not often you head over to Digg and see every story on the front page be about the same thing. Not to mention all the stories were just links to various sites, but had the HD-DVD encryption key in them. Some of the stories were extremely funny titled “Key Fun lawlzwtfbbq” and “Today’s Lottery Numbers”.
Finally Digg was taken down and the front page is still down, but you can still easily submit stories or check out stories. I’m sure Digg has coded something that will auto-bury stories with the HD-DVD encryption key in them. Digg founded Kevin Rose has posted his thoughts on the whole thing. He obviously knows it was a mistake for them to remove the story. What do you think?
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It’s quite an amazing event that went on last night. The digg users won the battle and got their message across.
They got their message across. Part of me wishes, though, that Digg would’ve gotten destroyed entirely and something new could’ve appeared. Oh well.
Yeap, it was definitely interesting. Digg also crashed several times last night and I’m guessing its from the large number of visitors for this occasion.
The other interesting thing is that the HD DVD company was trying to secretly remove the code from the internet. Well now the exact opposite thing happened and now its being promoted.
This was very cool to see. Digg, one of the biggest social bookmarking site got owned by its own members. Amazing that things like this can happen
*shakes head
I’m very interested to see what Kevin will have to say about this in the next episode of Diggnation…