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Digg says: no more removing of HD DVD key

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Few days back, Digg was forced to remove a story that contained a serial key (decryption key) that could remove copy protection in HD DVDs. Using this key users could decrypt the movies from HD DVDs.

After these posts were removed from Digg, Digg users revolted. There were thousands of (anti Digg) posts and thousands of more comments against Digg’s decision. There were also tons of Photoshop Creations similar to the above photo that contained the HD DVD key. There were even T-Shirts containing this key in CafePress. All of these, forced Digg’s founder Kevin Rose to make a serious decision, here is what he says in Digg’s blog:

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

Wired’s Blog reports that Google and WordPress has also warned its users to remove the hex-codes from their pages.

What is HD-DVD
HD-DVD (for High-Density Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical media format which is being developed as one standard for high-definition DVD. HD-DVD is promoted by Toshiba, NEC, and Sanyo, and backed by four major film studios.