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 Post subject: Digg.com takes stand on piracy (Thumbs Up)
PostPosted: Thu 05-03-2007 10:28AM 
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Industry ... 461&page=1

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.


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PostPosted: Thu 05-03-2007 10:43AM 
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Oh my god that article is biased and uninformed.

"they could destroy the barriers put up by the HD-DVD consortium to stop mass copying and sharing of its product."

They fail to note that this code also allows normal people to exercise fair use rights on the discs that they already own.

This guy is in the pocket of the MPAA


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PostPosted: Thu 05-03-2007 11:36AM 
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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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PostPosted: Thu 05-03-2007 2:48PM 
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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.

A much less biased if slightly left of center article about the same thing.

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PostPosted: Thu 05-03-2007 3:38PM 
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about this article...

1) No one should ever use the word blogosphere

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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PostPosted: Thu 05-03-2007 3:58PM 
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Also, the fact that he used "blogosphere" to seemingly refer to the entire internet just pisses me off to no end.

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PostPosted: Fri 05-04-2007 3:25PM 
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Best coverage of the matter I've read so far.

"... the larger lesson to be learned here is that security based on secrets is truly no more secure than any other form of security. Once that secret is out, it's game over. The more you try to stop that secret from spreading, the more likely it is to spread. The more coveted that secret is, the worse it gets."

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PostPosted: Fri 05-04-2007 7:02PM 
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