A day that will live in hilarity

Wow. I've never seen anything like this before. Digg
, (yes that Digg) was HIJACKED! Not by malicious hackers, not by lame-ass script kiddies; no. It was hacked by it's own users. Yes, the very people who make Digg what is it, a user-driven news site, rose up and revolted against the Digg bourgise.

What happened? Well, in the last week or so several stories popped up on Digg about the HD DVD decryption key that has been wandering about the interweb. They were posting the key to protest the force-feeding of DRM-infested media to the public. I've never seen a more twisted relationship between an industry and it's customers that that between the RIAA/MPAA and John Q. Public. They seem to both love and despise, distrust and adore us all at the same time. It's really pathetic.

So what does this have to do with Digg? Well, apparently at the behest of the HD DVD group, all stories showing the decryption key were mysteriously removed from Digg. You can read about it here. As a result, the Digg community revolted and began flooding the Digg servers with hundreds of stories that included the decryption key. And to get them on the front page, the rabid hordes began digging up EVERY HD DVD STORY! So that before long, all the stories on the front page of Digg were, in some form or another, about HD DVD and the key. As you can see, I took a screen shot just to prove how hilarious and awesome this was.

Some of the stories were just commenting on the situation, but others were downright ridiculous. Here are a couple of my favorites:


Yeah, that's right.

Hell, even Wikipedia has an article about this. They are calling it "HDDVD Night". Of course, it's been deleted and then protected to prevent recreation, so that's no good. Nothing like a good old fashioned Wikipedia burning.

Maybe we should call this HDDVDnacht.

Brilliant.

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