What is Digg?1054 Comments
- Virak, on 10/12/2007, -21/+942oh nine eff nine one
one oh two nine dee seven
four ee three five bee
dee eight four one five
six see five six three five six
eight eight see zero
Illegal haiku? - DiggFight, on 10/12/2007, -54/+738It doesn't matter if they can't win legally. They didn't even try. There is a BIG difference between resisting and bending over. If I wanted to see a torn ass, I'd look up goatse, not digg.
On a side note, HD-DVD SPONSORS DIGG!
http://texyt.com/Digg+founders+took+HD-DVD+sponsorship+00071 - DDarkfire, on 10/12/2007, -19/+573But why the BAN on users who submit stories?
- indraneel24, on 10/12/2007, -25/+422that's all well and good, but in the short time that the story was up, it's already circumvented around the internet.
- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -9/+386I want to digg this so that it's seen, but I want to bury it as 'so incredibly lame'.
There is no 'digg as lame' button. I am conflicted. - chalkboy, on 10/12/2007, -18/+391A number is not intellectual property. Buried as inaccurate.
- martinj88, on 10/12/2007, -13/+307soo it's ok for dark alexs PSP hack to get to the front page but not this.
It's news, Digg is not hosting the site or telling people to do it, their just pointing to something that will interest a lot of people on Digg.
and what the hell: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 .....fight the power. - kettlehead, on 10/12/2007, -22/+290Hah, they're still doing it, they deleted my post from this thread. I'm moving to Reddit. See all you free speach lovers over there.
oh, and 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 you, you 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0ing mother 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0ers. - dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -10/+276The number 5,005 is copyright 2007 Dolemite5005. All rights reserved.
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -10/+252Digg has breached the trust of the community in an immeasurable way. The issue at hand is not the stupid number. It the fact that after the second most popular story was Deleted, users created stories talking about said deletion, and their stories got deleted, and their user accounts got deleted, as if digg actually thought it could hide the fact that anything ever happened.
That’s what people are up in arms about, that’s what this number represents.
And until digg either repairs their massively breached social contract with us, the diggers, the diggers who built and published their site, We will derail digg until it burns into the ground. - TyroPyro, on 10/12/2007, -6/+227Slashdot had the balls to. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/01/1935250.shtml
When a Digg story was submitted linking to that Slashdot article, it was insta-censored by Digg, removing it from the upcoming stories section. Dozens of other stories were censored in this same way. There are bigger concerns about censoring dissent on Digg. - Pssdoff, on 10/12/2007, -7/+218Dear Administrators of http://digg.com
I am writing on behalf of Numeric Systems LLC, a manufacturer of digits and numerals. Numeric Systems LLC is the owner of a registered trademark for the number “6” (No. 65/6,336,850 registered on August 6, 6302 BC). We very much value our trademarks and would appreciate your ceasing use of the “6” mark, and hereby request the removal of all instances of the number “6” from your website.
We found at least twenty one uses of this trademark on your site at http://digg.com which infringe upon our intellectual property. Please remove all instances of the numeral “6” from the Web pages that you manage, which also includes any instances of the word “six”.
We appreciate your cooperation and sensitivity to the protection of our intellectual property and would appreciate the removal of our mark(s) from your web pages by or before 8 seconds from now.
Sincerely,
Adolfus Hintlermeyer
Numeric Systems LLC - HotGore, on 10/12/2007, -17/+201You cannot copyright trade secrets. If the recipe for Hien's Ketchup got out they would not be able to sue anyone.
- ASUmusicMAN, on 10/12/2007, -16/+193What happened to the Kevin Rose has no balls post? Censoring everything now are we?
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - lalusr, on 10/12/2007, -29/+188canewediggit, grow some balls you pussy, its a number. Search for the the hex number on google, its now getting 275,000+ results, good luck with suing everyone.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+153Slashdot was threatened by MS over seven years ago regarding DMCA: http://features.slashdot.org/features/00/05/11/0153247.shtml
They did nothing but post the full text of MS' lawyers' complaint, and Slashdot's response as a story submission for people to discuss. It's seven years later, and Slashdot never "quickly disappeared". That story is in the Slashdot hall of fame (as linked to from their front page). - goalieca, on 10/12/2007, -13/+163Screw digg cuz the original post from february is still alive! http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=952968#post952968
- eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -13/+162Jay;
What would be nice if you went and hired your own suit to tell you what the law is, rather than listen to the shills from the mafiaa. Because there is no "intellectual property" to a sequence of numbers in the public domain. It's not a DMCA circumvention device either.
Instead it would have been better if you would just be honest and say "look, we really don't want to hassle with the lawyers right now, so we have to pull the stories for the time being." Rather than cough up the lametastic "respecting intellectual property rights."
Because the truth is, there is nothing to respect here. And you, by respecting the unrespectful, are rapidly losing the goodwill of 15,000+ site visitors who might just make another aggregate site their home. - saynotocensors, on 10/12/2007, -2/+142This is bollocks. Look at the front page of Digg and you wouldn't know anything was happening. Compare that to the Digg BigSpy and you'll see that a large percentage of active stories concern this matter. Everything is being removed even stories that are discussing the implications of Digg's censorship.
There's also the fact that Diggnation has taken sponsorship money from HD-DVD which story has also been disappeared. You'll find people would be understanding about specific takedowns if the URLs remained in tact the votes remained in tact and the article contained a notice that the content had been edited. Just as Google does to comply with local laws.
My account has been disabled for doing what nearly everyone on this site has been doing, talking about the biggest news story of the day. This is a sad day which I'm sure none of us will forget, it's always worse when a site that was held in high esteem lets its community down so badly. - DooklesTheBear, on 10/12/2007, -14/+147I worte that "Can't sensor random facts, can you?" post and it started getting huge diggs. Next thing you know, it's gone. I'm sorry Digg but grow some ***** balls and stand up against the man.
- kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -89/+222Hi all, just wanted to post about this...
Almost every week we receive cease and desist letters from attorneys. With 6-7,000 new stories being submitted every day, we are bound to link to illegal content from time to time. So we get these notices. It happens.
Today we were notified about a story that linked to intellectual property that is protected under the DMCA. We contacted our attorneys, and they gave us their advice: remove the stories. If we don't, we can be held liable for damages, and by damages I mean enough to shut us down.
This is difficult. We are a small company with handful of employees, and we don't have the resources to fight a battle. I don't want risk a lawsuit that could end up with digg being shut down, so we removed the stories.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the DMCA and any DRM'ed media (including HD-DVD). I'll talk about this in detail on the diggnation episode airing May 12th. - misterhardcore, on 10/12/2007, -23/+152Damn the man.
- robohoe, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13009 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Happy? - Amoeba16, on 10/12/2007, -3/+118First off, Kevin, a few questions:
What is a nought less a nought? How many baseball players from each team are on the field? What is the first letter of English's most popular and versatile profane word? What was the answer to that baseball question again? If your dial only goes up to ten, where are you going to go from there? What was the answer to the first question again? Making the V sign involves how many upraised fingers? How many lives are cats reputed to have? What is my letter grade if I have done very poorly, but not failed? What was the name of that movie where the killer killed to exemplify the deadly sins? What does one call out before striking a golf ball? What letter would an M resemble if you rotated it ninety degrees counter-clockwise? How many wishes to Djinnis traditionally grant? How many fingers do you have on each hand, if you are an uninjured person? Which letter grade is second best? What is the fourth letter of the alphabet? What do you get if you double the number four? What number was I just asking about? What is the first number to be counted if one does not count zero? How many fingers does a chimpanzee have on each hand, if he or she is an uninjured chimp? What is the sum of the previous answer and one? Which letter of the alphabet sounds most like the word "sea"? How many moderator points are in each batch offered to Slashdot users? What is the sum of the previous answer plus one? How many strikes before one is out? Which number follows four in sequence? What is the sum of the previous answer plus one? Which number looks like zero wearing a tight belt? What was that number again? Which letter falls between B and D in the English alphabet? Which number is frequently confused for the letter O?
The answers may surprise you. - jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1261001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000
- randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -11/+122Oh please. What a sterile PR post that was.
From thebroken, to this. This is what happens when techies start getting paid. - spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -20/+130OH, THE DRAMA.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+115digg deleted my account before, it was google_bot, because I called steve jobs a *****.
- mahsah, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10909 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
***** this.
/me turns on adblock plus
I had digg whitelisted before, but if Rose isn't going to see another cent from me. Maybe he should stick up for his users. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+101protecting copyrights my ass, how many family guy clips get posted without consent from fox? thats promoting the distribution of copyrighted material too, digg. make up your mind, we're at war.
- swifty12, on 10/12/2007, -7/+101If you have any questions e-mail me at:
aacs_09f911029d74e35bd84156@yahoo.com
(that really my e-mail) - KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+96Watch out digg, or diggnation will soon become slashdotcountry. We like digg's service, but not censorship.
- dawg109, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9409 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
damn i type crazy stuff after drinking - 09F911029D74E3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+91Complying with DMCA requests is one thing, actively censoring users is something completely different.
5B D8
Are you going to ban me for posting 4 characters of it? - digghasnoethics, on 10/12/2007, -9/+85"violate any laws in your jurisdiction"
And if your NOT violating laws in your jurisdiction?
The reality here is its far too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Unless the AACS people have a way to deal with the reality that this number is known, then to attack the freedom of speech of large numbers of people for pointless and in itself a cause for concerned action.
digg has many problems with its lack of moral and ethical understanding, with this just being one example. They are far too quick to attack users, ban them and try to impose their concerns on others. Its no good saying they can do what they like because they are not the government - everyone has to be held to moral and ethical standards in how they behave. That includes respect for the basic human rights which include freedom of speech.
digg should unban all those they have attacked in their desire to chase cash. And apologise. - Lonforce, on 10/12/2007, -6/+79"Our goal is always to maintain a purely democratic system for the submission and sharing of information" - I'm sorry, you failed..this system can't be called democratic. Not anymore and never again.
- loconet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+77The negative response from digg's user base as a result of this move is huge. Considering /. had the balls to allow their story to be tagged with the key. Digg will be remembered for this one.
- sbgunn, on 10/12/2007, -9/+80Dear Digg/moderators/Kevin Rose/etc
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
The ball is now in your court. If my comment or account is deleted, I go to Reddit and never come back. I already created a Reddit account so I could comment on some stories over there about how ridiculous this censorship is. Maybe the threat of one less reader isn't big enough to matter. I hope other users do the same thing.
I know you don't have to give us all free speech if you don't want to. Similarly, we don't have to stay. This is me voting with my clicks. Your move. - loconet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+75As it has been said before, WTF does a randomly generated hex has to do with Intellectual property. Copyrighted? No, it does not meet the minimum requirement to be protected by copyright. It is randomly generated for ***** sakes! Trademarked? Are you joking? Patented? Bloody unlikely.
You want to protect your Intellectual Property? Go chase mass distributing pirates.
This is censorship of a bloody number. Plain and simple. This is a very sad day for digg. - aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -7/+77Gee, thats just effing great,
This explains everything... Like why posts not talking about or including the offending number were being banned and blocked.
Apparently dissent is also covered by the DMCA. Turns out the term "digg-is-censoring-it's-users" can be used to crack blueray. Who knew? - AlexFerny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71hah, my comment telling kevin about the law got deleted, how nice.
Well, to repost it - you cant copyright a number, its not anyones intelectual property. Digg needs to hire a lawyer who knows what they are talking about, and they will tell him that the "code" falls into trade secret law, and the "rule" in that is that once it is in the public domain, it is no longer illegal to post it / comment on it, etc - the only people who can be sued are the ones who originally posted/leaked it.
Now here is the 2nd comment that was/will be removed: Digg has no need to pro-actively remove anything, as per DMCA they are protected from being sued due to any content posted by thier users provided they respond to DMCAs - there is no way that each of the articles taken down has had a DMCA filed against it - this is pro-active censoring, and is wrong! - schoate09, on 10/12/2007, -9/+78It's great knowing I have it on a .txt on a pen drive, CD-ROM, file on my server, and on my hard drive.
- rebotfc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+66Digg.com this is disgraceful way to treat loyal users.
- rellik12, on 10/12/2007, -5/+64With apologies to Alara Rogers...
First they came for the encryption key posters
But I never decoded a HD-DVD
so I didn't speak up
Then they came for the hackers.
But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the pornographers.
But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the encryption users.
But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for me.
And by that time there was no one left to speak up. - InfiniteNothing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+63I'm going to make my encryption key, the first 30 digits of pi. Now that pi is my intellectual property, I expect all of you to start paying royalties
- AlexFerny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60Oh, one more commect - digg has no need to pro-actively remove anything, as per DMCA they are protected from being sued due to any content posted by thier users provided they respond to DMCAs - there is no way that each of the articles taken down has had a DMCA filed against it - this is pro-active censoring, and is wrong!
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING PICTURE: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3120/09f911029d74e35bd84156cno9.png
Or are they claiming copyright on a sequence of colors too? - afx1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+59Damn blog spam. Here's the real link: http://www.digg.com/tos
- BradGroux, on 10/12/2007, -6/+57Way to DIGG your grave...
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