Biggest Moment in old digg history - The AACS encryption key controvercy when the community revolted due to Digg complying with a legal request to remove this illegal number. "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

May 2nd, 2007 Digg had to cave to community demands to not comply with legal removal requests.

Kevin Rose made the following statement.

“today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.

But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. 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.”


Ensuring the love and dedication of his followers and community for life....... till everyone left in mass to reddit when Digg decided to ditch reliable mysql for some other database that didn't scale.