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HD-DVD > Digg I think not.
by Nathan on May.02, 2007, under Uncategorized
This is a post in response to a friend of mine and a post he made at his site. Gomez I spent a few hours last night reporting post about the HD-DVD keys as spam. The reason I did this is not because I though that the keys where wrong to post, but because I didn’t want to see Digg be taken over by ass holes thinking that anything is covered by free speech, and fall under the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment states
- “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.“
This would include me saying there is no God, or saying the the Pope is gay, or that President Bush should be impeached (maybe I shouldn’t have said that at work). This doesn’t include copyrighted material. Yes the copyright system is fucked up, I understand that. But this still doesn’t give anyone the “right” to post copyrighted material. Digg did what it thought was best for the company. A cease and desist letter means absolutly nothing. All it says is that if you don’t quite doing what ever we tell you then we “may” get legal on your ass. So when Digg received this letter they said “Ok for the good of the company we may want to take this information down”. This wasn’t “censorship” as some put it. This was information that some party (HD-DVD) beleived was copyrighted and told another company (Digg) to remove or possibly face leagal actions. But because some people thought of this as “censorship” Digg had to turn the other cheek and once again say “Whats best for the company?” This time it was letting ass holes post the keys, and taking the fallout if there is any from HD-DVD. Because again cease and desist doesn’t really mean a damn thing.
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May 2nd, 2007 on 5:12 pm
JimShoe, I do agree with you in some parts of this. The censorship that I was mainly referring to is what digg was doing by banning people for posting a hex number. A copyright infringement may or may not have occurred with the posting of the key, but this is the internet: copyright infringement WILL happen. 9/10, when a big name person, group of people, company, or something like it try to keep something a secret or hide it, it will NOT stay that way. I can understand exactly where digg was coming from with removing stuff which may have a legal action upon itself. Honestly, I’d do the same thing if I got a cease and desist letter. However, my main point of the post was to reflect on how chaos broke out over digg and subsided within a short amount of time… It did piss me off as well that no new stories were getting through as the entire site was flooded with the same thing.