Digg succumbs to community demands

Digg succumbs to community demands

The people power has won on the community website Digg. Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg admitted that they have now given in to the demand made by their users to stop censoring the information related to the key needed to crack the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption.

This technology is used to limit the copying of next generation storage formats like the HD DVD disks.

Digg was flooded with posts containing this information and the people behind the service struggled to keep on removing the posts and comments with the key.

They simply failed to keep the situation under control and in the end Rose gave up and announced in a Digg blog post that they would not remove any related information from Digg and would face the legal consequences.

He wrote in the blog post: “You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”