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Digg fights user revolt over HD-DVD ban -- Digg founders took HD-DVD sponsorship
- Sam_Odio 19y agoDigg's response: http://blog.digg.com/?p=73 http://blog.digg.com/?p=73 Edit: huge update, digg surrenders - http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18652 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18652
- rwalker 19y agoUpdate: every single story on the Digg front page is now related to the HD-DVD key. This is certainly an interesting event in the history of community based sites.
- nickb 19y agoDigg's mistreating of their user base will take them down the Friendster path. Oh well...
- Alex3917 19y agoThis is a really interesting case study. Especially since it seems as if hundreds of new users are migrating over to Reddit. I wonder if there will be any noticeable impact in Reddit's traffic because of this.
- Goladus 19y agoI think what makes this the most interesting of all is that from the standpoint of stomping out knowledge of the key, AACS's attempt at censorship has resulted in a flat-out catastrophe. I don't own an HD-DVD player, and have never made any effort to learn how to break its encryption. I'm sure many people are just like me. If it wasn't for the user revolt I wouldn't know about it. (I don't typically use Digg, and use Reddit only rarely)