Digg 'em
An interesting sound can be heard at Digg this week--a monster ripping noise as thousands of denizens of the Matrix rip those electrodes out of their chests. There has been an open rebellion by many Digg users in retalation of an apparent censoring by Digg moderators of a recently cracked HD key. The hexadecimal key, when fed into the right program unlocks all HD-DVDs released up until now.
The protests are taking the form of using their votes to point the front page of Digg to stories containing the hex number and other clever ways to force the forbidden number to the forefront.
There is no perpetual motion machine and every form of energy has a price. The seemingly free power supply of Web 2.0 sites, driven by the combined will of the great unwashed, can also be used to express displeasure. I predict that we will see more of the same in the very near future.
Posted on May 02, 2007
