09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b -d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

The 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b -d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 code and internet democracy.

Here is a good example of internet democracy at its best, apparently someguy called Doom9 manage to extract a string of numbers (a hexadecimal string, to be exact) that represents the master AACS key used in encrypting HD-DVD discs. A few days later someone got exicited about it and post a story about the crack together with the key, and it hit the front page of Digg, hours later it was removed from Digg’s front page, the second attempt saw the same consequences.

Just like these guys, I am excited about this whole democracy process that Digg created,and soon Digg cave in to the pressure by not removing any articles due to the flooding of such articles by the thousands. Digg CEO said it was clear he did not yet understand the chaos that was coming. The post only added fuel to the fire.

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.

This is a fine example of Democracy at its best, even the creator of Digg are not able to stop it. Reminds me of the Apple iPhone issue where Apple demand the removal of the iPhone skins.

Tags: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b -d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0, Digg, Digg Effect, Internet Democracy

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