some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
In: Web
6 May 2007Digg.com, one of the biggest social networking sites around was really unsocial this week. The story: A user digged a story that contained the HD DVD key that was revealed this week. This key allows anybody to devcrypt HD DVD’s and the movie industry will not be happy about it.
Digg not only tried to remove the story and banned the user who first digged the story but they had no chance. The story got 23000 diggs that day and got even bigger. See the Screenshot on BGR – every story in the top ten was about it.
I do not really know what to think about that … was it right to ban the user? Are there any legal consequences for publishing the key (I thinks so) and/or for diggin’ it?