Wow. Here's the brief summary; MPAA/RIAA come up with new encryption scheme for the HD-DVD format. Designed to limit piracy from their stand point, designed to limit user choice and control (fair use) from the critics standpoint. Smart internet kid cracks the code, posts information on the interwebs. Some time goes by, someone posts it to digg. Digg removes post and bans user. Word gets out, all hell breaks loose sense Digg is supposed to be a damn-the-man democratic revolution. Turns out, Digg takes ad money from the HD-DVD people. Next thing you know, every single story on Digg contains the code and theres no way to stop it.

The next day, Kevin tries to play clean up.

A PR stunt or a user revolt, either way the implications are interesting. How can you stop the spread of a string of hex that can be expressed in all sorts of ways? Should you?

For anyone who was doubting the problems of the mob-mentality when we launched Netscape with a few editors, does your initial opinion still hold true? While you might believe that the number should be spread to all corners of the internet, at least on Netscape you can still find your news without all the mayhem. Then again, maybe it's the mayhem thats the appeal.

Anyway.. Interesting stuff.