Basically Digg has refused to remove the codes used to bypass the HD-DVD disks allowing users to rip/copy movies. The CEO of the company went as far as to post a 1st amendment rights comment on the main page with the codes included with his name.
What ever happened to civil disobedience and standing up for what you think is right? Media companies have their rights, and consumers should have their rights as well.
I was especially irritated about the comment that "if you are going to create a venue for children to play, someone has to be the grown-up. And that is where Digg blew it." This guy is probably also for the banning of subversive books and censoring the internet.
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Not only is that exceedingly biased, but the author sounds vastly uninformed. He used copy protection, patent law, and trade secrets all interchangeably, even though they're all very different things. I was actually saddened to read "Michael S. Malone's" extensive credentials. To write an article on this topic without mentioning the DMCA (which is the only real legal issue raised here) is simply dumb.
I think that Mr. Malone just wanted to use this event as a way to push his beliefs about information. The way that he went on a mini tirade about how an online community can decide what news it does or doesn't want to promote tells me that he's probably just pissed off at the internet as a whole.
2) No one should ever use the word blogosphere twice in one article
3) You shouldn't use the phrase "he was dumb enough to"
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I see big civil suits in Digg's future (and likely its demise) as well as in Rose's, who was actually dumb enough to post that note with his name on it.
4) An author should know the difference between writing a news aricle and posting on an internet forum
5) Dont be such a wuss
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