What is Digg?196 Comments
- nallelcm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+144Haha, apparently digg clones can succumb to the dig effect. Crazy Malaysians knocked down my ***** wall
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+122can anyone say lawsuit
- fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -26/+123Why is it the only intellectual property digg users respect is digg's? If it's okay to pirate music/videos on the basis that copyright is "wrong" and anyone who tries to enforce it is "evil", why is it not okay for some guy/s in Malaysia to rip this site off, and why is it okay for digg to enforce their intellectual property?
Please don't say because it's against the law, that would be too hypocritical even for digg.
Anyway the site's existed for ages. I'm sure digg's aware of it, and I suspect there's bugger-all they can do about it. - snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -7/+86i tried to use my username and password but apperently they didnt copy the user info
- Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+81Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble!!!!!
- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50Down, but google has a cache of what it looks like.
http://72.14.253.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com.my&btnG=Search - emmanuelsotelo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46Digg it up!
Lets see if they can handle the "Digg Effect". - oskite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47To be fair, it's not like any local Malaysian content would make it to the front page here. If there's one thing digg is missing, it's local and specialized content groups.
Then again, they did steal. They didn't care enough to design their own voting system, so they took digg's. Not cool. - AhrenBa, on 10/12/2007, -10/+49"Digg.com.my is all about Malaysian local content. Every article on digg is submitted and voted on by the digg community. Please note that we're not trying to compete with the official digg!"
Hmmm...Really?? Yeah, you are not trying to compete with Digg, but you steal the entire layout, buttons, text, and system. Makes sense to me...
/sarcasm - hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39im trying to post this Digg story on their site so we can Digg it up...
- coditza, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3913 minutes later:
and the site is down - wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35the digg clone got the digg effect! haha!
- nthitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Check out their blog: http://digg.com.my.nyud.net:8090/blog.php
I also like how their ad says "Malaysia's broadband sucks."
http://digg.com.my/img/125x125-suck-url.gif - tribalsun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Mugatu: Do as you are trained... AND KILL THE MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER!
Derek Zoolander: For serious. - aburd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Digg-proper needs to start putting out official digg clones worldwide before others take the world market from them.
- TemporalRift, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Am I the only one who sees the potential here? Kevin and Co. shouldn't be trying to shut these guys down, they should be handing them the olive branch. Localized versions of Digg, under the official company and trademark would make Digg even a stronger presence and more true to the "Content for Everyone" philosophy that I always thought Digg was about. I say instead of trying to get these guys in a court, the higher ups should try to make them an official branch.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16http://digg.com.my/?o=Digg_Clone_In_Malaysia
- JBabin3xB, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Only thing Malaysia needs to worry about is "digging" their own hole and being "buried" in it.
- LanceWindu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@fkr3
Butt *****. :) I'll excuse you this time for leaving out the second T of "Butt". - Crizzle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Cease and desist.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@ oskite
Well at least we know their braodband sucks... - llamasonic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13American living in Malaysia here. I once met a patent lawyer over here and asked him why there is so much piracy. His answer was that Malaysia still thinks as a commodity based organism and has little concept of IP. How to you patent tin, rubber and palm oil ? They don't understand why copyright is important because they have invented next to nothing. Go do a search for "invented in Malaysia" - short of an adult circumcision device I can't find much.
Only after they have invented significant IP themselves will Malaysia understand what it means to protect it. Until then.. I will enjoy the 2 dollar DVDs and totally ***** Malaysian broadband. - mehss, on 10/12/2007, -13/+23fkr3, people are digg-down happy, I don't get why. I hope this gets dugg down to 50 just to prove how awesome I am.
- orangysb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10wow, Malaysia memang boleh copy sia...
what a blatant act of counterfeiting, a 100% full duplicate, at least put some thought in changing the name and design? the site's making a bad name for my nation man, what a disgrace - LanceWindu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9We know this already, we knew this the first 10 times it was stated in this topic.
- truguyanese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9lol
http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?img=25-192838L&y=2007&m=03&t=png&rand=4166&srv=img4 - Universal, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19"Please note that we're not trying to compete with the official digg!"
Sure ***** looks like it to me! - pairacy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8yup, i agree.. lots of pirated stuff here. but remember it's not only us, lots more country around us doing the same thing. and my username is "pairacy" too! hahaha! but i got nothing to do with making money by selling pirated stuff.. :)
yo Kevin Rose! even im from Malaysia, i dont mind what you going to do with these guys, man..
althought China is an expert in copying stuff, but they still use their brain to change the branding. but look at this? lots of open source digg style system available out there, lots of free open source template was created out there, but why still copying "digg"? these guys are playing with fire, man..
damn.. i wonder how they still can register the "digg" name, even under MyNIC (.com.my)?! - fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Trademark, copyright law, brand dilution and an inherently implied endorsement/relationship is the problem with it.
But ***** the RIAA, none of that really matters or applies to our generation. Right? - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Hmm, @saintdesy
Do you honestly think they've made a cent of profit off of their adsense?... They still have stories from October on their front page, that doesn't indicate a whole lot of traffic, though it might help with their server costs just a BIT... Yes he's blatantly stealing a trademarked name and various copyrighted images, but they're trying to do something cool for Malaysian Diggers by making them a site that's actually relevant there (There are any number of our digg stories I doubt they'd care about)... From the tone of the blog, I highly doubt profit was a motivation in all this. - AceMcAbe, on 11/05/2007, -2/+8Thank-you for proving to the entire world just how lame us Malaysians are at coming up with our own ideas and developing original internet services.
This Sucks - ImprovingLemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If only my crappy submissions were popular after 8 diggs. :P
- 1Bit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Edit: dammit messed it up, but you can digg stories anonymously. Some potential to be abused here.
- Four20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6up to over 100 now
it'll probably get to be the highest dugg site on there - Mortiferous, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I think it looks better. :)
- cankillar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It's not up anymore... digg effect on a digg clone?
damn, nallelcm beat me. :( - rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I think your patent lawyer has an overly IP-centric view of the piracy situation.
The reason I hear most often among educated Malaysians is that the officially sanctioned releases are so heavily censored as to be unwatchable. Stories make no sense, scenes jump and cut like the film was dropped in a tank of pirhannas.
This is a country where they don't even show friendly kisses on TV. Anything political (except anti-Iraq-war stuff) and anything that challenges orthodox views of religion (any religion) is a no-go. Even HBO and Cinemax on Astro (local satellite TV provider) get the same treatment, so more and more people just don't bother. The censorship regime is so out-of-touch with mainstream sensibilities that everyone just works around it.
Back off on the patronising censorship and I guarantee piracy will go down (and Malaysian IQs will go up). Until that happens, all the DVD raids in the world won't stop it. - fLUx1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well, at least is aint a scam site to get your digg.com details!!
Cos Im sure confirmed digg details would be good to add to a spam bots list of users, and then they could go though each set of details and digg a story to the top10 within a few hours!! :( - zebstah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I understand they took the look bit for bit (site is down) but how exactly did they 'steal the voting system'? Did they have access to the underlying code? Or are you talking about the uberoriginal thumbs up/thumbs down lets count the votes system? Or the the whatever's popular goes to the front page system?
- vertex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Talk about copy-paste!!!!
- VhaidraU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+512 diggs so far, c'mon people lets give it at least 1,000. You can digg anonymously there!
- an0nym0us, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5you can kiss my ass, lim.
- Nick22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If you are gona clone a massive website like digg...at least name it something else and go the supergu route. I smell lawsuit.
- rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Decent connectivity is available in Malaysia, but not through TMnet. Their overseas connections are overtaxed and their Streamyx DSL is crap.
You have to go to the smaller providers that have independent overseas links (e.g. PenangFon, TimeNet). Sadly they're not available everywhere.
Some other countries in the region have better situations. In Singapore you can get 100 megabit home broadband. In Thailand they've got decent DSL even in the remote areas, it ought to make Malaysia's corrupt and incompetent TMnet officials resign their posts in shame. - Idyllrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The work of this guy: http://www.arsyan.com/
- trust.nobody, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Tell the world that Malaysia Broadband sucks!
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's not always as simple as repecting Digg's IP and disrepescting everyone else's. Some people's mentality is of the nature of infringing for personal use is okay, infringing for commercial use bad.
- praveenmarkandu, on 11/05/2007, -1/+5i think im gonna be sick...
doesnt make it better to know im malaysian either - Restrikted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love the Malaysian Diggs' top story: "Yet Another Digg Clone In Malaysia!" Uh oh, they made us! SHUT IT DOWN!
- an0nym0us, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5copy pasta.
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