.: articles die/insanity ensues:.

holy crapola, batman…not sure if you were privy to seeing the chaos from earlier today on digg…but MAN…it has now completely reinforced the thought in my head that what the mob wants, the mob will get. especially when it comes to community driven news.

the short story is that the decryption key for HD-DVDs has recently been leaked. of course, it was only a matter of time. and of course, it was only a matter of time until someone decided to post it on a site like digg. when digg received a take-down order, they went ahead and complied.

and someone else put it back up.

and they took it down.

and someone else put it back up.

and they took it down AND suspended accounts.

and someone else…and someone else…and someone else…and someone else….etc. put it back up.

finally, digg said, ‘whoa nelly! ok…we get the point! we’ll go ahead and just keep it up and suffer the consequences if something bad happens! woohoo!’

that’s pretty crazy, and takes a lot of balls to do…especially when the long arm of the law gets involved. i feel a little bit bad for them; it would be a serious shame if they go shut down because their community decided to be insolent. on the other hand, like the title of this post says…the mob rules.

sometimes i think about what might happen if the 70-some-odd percent of the country that didn’t like W decided to march on the capitol and insist that he step down. i guess if anyone really REALLY cared, that would happen…

anyway, so congratulations digg mob; you guys definitely made a fantastic point. and kudos also go to digg for deciding to go with it and keeping the spirit of what the site is…

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