Digg fights against MPAA: HDDVD
We all know Digg. And we also know MPAA for some reasons. Now these two giants of internet and movie industry seem to fight against each other after the HD DVD affair on Digg. It all started when a story link claiming that a secret HD-DVD encryption code had been cracked was posted on Digg.com. The post included the key code in the title which many users treated like some magic number, which could be typed into their HD-DVD player or PC and make a copy of the disc. This apparently angered the Motion Picture Association of America – a proponent of DRM and anti-piracy measures.
Skeptics, though, say the hullaballoo was unnecessary since the processing key is a small part of the equation. Nevertheless, when the link was pulled off “in order to respect these (intellectual property) rights and to comply with the law”, the move triggered a backlash amongst its users who felt the site was backtracking on its democratic news selection principle and resubmitted the stories – as well as messages deriding the Motion Picture Association of America, a proponent of DRM and anti-piracy measures — in thousands (a few blogs even put the figure at 50,000 diggs but the figure remains speculation), causing the site to shut down for a time. Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, commented this event at his official Digg blog with words of “If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.” Good luck, I would be happy to see MPAA on their knees.
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kevin also acted like a pussy before posting in his blog by banning users.
All those kids were going nuts screaming about censorship and such. This has happened before but not on this scale, remember the “illegal” prime number?
And yes, you CAN own hex code, if it represents intellectual property. I didn’t see any of them encoding porn to other formats and screaming censorship by digg. The damn code was against the ToS in the first place. They bitch when someone steals another person’s art on DeviantArt, but when a company tries to take them down with something that company CAN easily win, the digg community decides to piss them off more. Digg will probably get sued and disappear.
I would’ve banned the submissions and users too, considering they were posting content that had been stated as illegal in the ToS. If you go on a site and you try to fight their rules, they have every right to ban your ass.
Those stories were so annoying enough that I moved to Reddit. the Digg community killed what they value so much.
Witnessed it happen. Joined in the fun
Let the Fight Begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If MPAA and DRM wants to really crackdown sue microsoft for making the OS possible of doing this. Wasnt Windows Media Player was one of the 1st proggies that could rip music from a cd? Or why not sue the manufactures that make cd/dvd burners for makin it possible and the companies that make cd-r and dvd-r.
And another thing maybe they shouldnt charge freaking $10.00 to watch a crappy movie and charge another $10.00 for a coke & popcorn fraking outrageous
And music cd’s $20.00 a cd sometimes plus tax and sometimes there only like 3 or 4 good tracks. At the end screw the MPAA and DRM they make millions on top of millions so dont cry broke
Re: Fartifacts
“Wasnt Windows Media Player was one of the 1st proggies that could rip music from a cd?”
LOL !!!!!!!11111 It was definately not WMP. I think it could of been BeOS, since putting in a CD enabled one just to drag and drop the songs right onto the HDD.
well it was one of them…..lol you get the point
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Woops..
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Ohh no, again..
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Hehe..
@st0rm:
What about original noncommercial artwork covered by a creative commons license prohibiting reproduction getting stolen? Is that fine too?
I understand that we WANT this material, but the idea that its our god-given right to have copies of anything that people put millions into is insane. If I like a movie, I buy it. If I get a DMCA notice, I’ll stop sharing that particular torrent.
The fact that this is code that is not random which unlocks HDDVDs makes it illegal, and they would obliterate Digg if they had to. Are they within their legal rights? Yes. Are they stupid in this? Only in the fact that the letters they sent out contained the code, essentially putting it into public domain.
It is comparable to illegal content being taken off Google, yet URLs are still available in the records. That doesn’t make it legal, it just makes it accessible.
This is NOT infringing on peoples right to freedom of speech, it is intellectual property that you can get sued over. Yes, the fact that the MPAA sues ordinary people for large amounts of money and demands settlements does amount to extortion, but that doesn’t mean they THIS issue is also incorrect on their part.
They’re greedy fucks, but this time they’re right. As one person on Digg said, post your name and address along with the code if you want to stand up against them. You won’t, because you don’t want to be sued, and you know that you couldn’t handle it. Same situation with Digg. You all tried to destroy their website while shouting about a right that you don’t have, knowing full well that the only victims if Digg gets sued will be innocent people trying to protect their site.
Grow up.
Yay Mpaa… Typical “kid, ants and magnifying glass”-syndrome. Except that it’s wrinkly, impotent old men sitting ontop of heaps of cash with their lil’ macs surfing the web for someone new to sue for some obscene reason. They have to do it just because they can.. Capitalization at it’s best.. Take from the poor, make rich richer..
Owned!
MPPA Sucks
@Ben
You can’t compare 32 letters and numbers to artwork. You can’t really “hide” anything either in something so small.
We are not talking about an almost 2000 digit prime number here.
Yes he can lol http://aeskey.ytmnd.com/