Digg is a popular website where users are allowed to post links to blogs, or news articles, that interest them – and that they feel others would be interested in.
Now, Digg is receiving some intensive media coverage because of it's decision to heed the thousands of fans, instead of an order to cease and desist from the Advanced Access Content System.
The problem is a 16-bit code that's been circulating online for months. This code isn't new, but hackers can use it to help disable the copy protection that's built on every HD DVD, meaning you could hypothetically copy the disc from the original DVD to another.
The AACS didn't like this, of course, and demanded that Digg take any and all posts that referred to the code off their website. At first, Digg agreed, deleting hundreds of posts that had any mention of the code in them.
But then Digg users posted thousands of comments, telling Digg exactly what they thought of them abiding by the order, and Digg really had no option but the route they took.
Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, says “After seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting then bow down to a bigger company.” Digg has promised not to delete the code off of their site any longer, saying “Whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”
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