Oh Nine, Eff Nine

I bet the MPAA is pissed.
bizinichisays...

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

Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
by Kevin Rose at 9pm, May 1st, 2007 in Digg Website

Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts…

In building and shaping the site I’ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We’ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So 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.

Digg on,

Kevin

bamdrewsays...

pretty damn fun. strange to downvote while explaining you don't understand what you're downvoting... maybe its late at night for you.

(the basic idea is that when you can't legally share a string of code, why not create and incorporate a semblance of the code into art that is then yours to share. images, poetry and haiku have been done before, but i don't remember many songs.)

loorissays...

i'd add a •politics tag.


a tip @karaidl: when i do not understand something, i never vote. downvote means you understand what it is and you don't like it. well, this is my point of view.

loorissays...

Yeah, we don't have a lot of videos tagged "processing key" fancy that ...

ah lol i supposed that for some reason, it found anyway something.

well it's better this way, gg.

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