Digg going down?

Kevin Rose has published the HD DVD code on the Digg blog
declaring

This after a day when the Digg team attempted to censor the code on Digg after receiving a cease and desist notice from their sponsor!
The following 24 hours caused mayhem, resulting in Digg temporarily shutting down submission and promotion after being flooded with stories.

http://blog.digg.com/?p=74

You must be very brave to state something like this :)

What was that post about? Does anyone knows?

The string code, is the private key that unlocks the DRM on HD DVD, on its own it's meaningless but if you also know the algorithm used you can effectively unlock a HD DVD.
A Digger submitted a story about TShirt that had the keystring on it, and was banned for breaching Digg TOS which they had updated after they had been sent a cease and desist notice by Diggnation sponsors. Over the following 24 hours the world went mental!

That is strange. I mean it is obviously illegal to share information like that, right?

Interesting, as Digg is a popular bookmarking tool...even if I use del.icio.us ;) .

@Nikolas: Not at all. In fact, Maximum PC showed the world how to rip protected CDs and DVDs to their computers... :D

Nope the keystring is only a set of numbers, it would be illegal to show the algorithm which is patented. If I posted a password here I wouldn't be breaking the law in the UK/Europe or state side however if I then used that password to gain entry I would be breaking the law.

Same thing, The lawyers sent a cease and desist because they believed that the algorithm had been included the keystring is without that worthless.

Not the same thing really Nathan, we are talking about showing a patented algorithm and if its legal, an article on how to copy CD's or DVD's would never cover how to break the DRM other then point to programs that could do it as examples of it being done ;) very different. If the article showed how to write a program to decrypt DVD encryption then it would be the same.

Ah, okay...just thought I'd point out that ripping encrypted CDs is illegal in the US and Canada...and that Max PC showed people how to do it, step by step ;) .

no its not!
ripping CD's to which you do not own the copyright is illegal and even then its only illegal if you supply it to some one else or use it (i.e listen to it) the actual copying is not illegal.

However the articles will be describing how to rip an encrypted CD that you are legally entitled to now of course you could go and illegally rip a cd using the same method...

Ahhh... the loop holes of the law... I hope kevin rose joins our community and we develop our own killer app...

IGU on this topic...can't post anything here without getting jumped on. One final question: Have you ever read Maximum PC Magazine?

actually yes...
More importantly Future Publishing its owners are one of the largest publishers of magazines in the world, they certainly have more lawyers up until yesterday then Digg ;)

It was a fun day, digg.com 100% filled with the same thing in TOP 10 DIGGs of the day, I'm glad they came through.

so whats new on DIGG anyway?