Incursor

Sorry, I haven’t been posting as much as usual. I have been bombarded with work lately.
This will change on Sunday when I am done with all of my work and get a new laptop!

Anyways, PC World released an interesting article about digg and the code that can decrypt HD- DVD movies created before April 23, 2007.
Full Article- http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004292.html

Kevin Rose, Digg’s founder, says he’s willing to “go down fighting” rather than attempt to pull posts made to Digg.com that violate AACS copyright. The licensing adminstrator issued a cease and desist ordering Digg to remove stories containing a single code that can decrypt HD-DVD movies published before April 23, 2007.

It appears Digg.com may have thrown up its hands, conceding its user base has more control over Digg.com than it does. If the company did–or could, given the mass-Digging the users launched–pull all the postings, the backlash might be too much for the site to live with. People might lose faith that Digg is an uncensored venue for public discourse.

But the copyright laws and underlying issue will not go away because the people object.

Some people say this is a freedom of speech issue. I think not. Whose freedom of speech is threatened? The bloggers? The people who posted copyright-breaking info? It’s not illegal to post a blog.

Digg chose to not promote the original AACS posting, agreeing to remove it. (It went up nearly three months ago, by the way, as noted in my colleague Eric Dahl’s report yesterday). Customers refused to let it do so. Who pays the consequences?