For what it's worth something like this is still probably possible. I'd be shocked if any sensible person would get access to Digg's dataset only to delete it i

For what it's worth something like this is still probably possible. I'd be shocked if any sensible person would get access to Digg's dataset only to delete it immediately thereafter. While they've replaced the site with something else to get the ball rolling, I don't get the impression that they're crass and/or ignorant enough to just destroy the whole thing, so we may yet see an archive of the old Digg. Also, I think the old Digg demonstrated that it didn't really care much about the data anyway.