» Digg Mob Launches Attack Against… Digg??

Users of Digg, often referred to as the Digg mob were outraged at the removal of a story by Digg because it contained the encryption key to HD-DVDs. The mob began frontpaging every single Digg story that mentioned the key, which is 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0.

The mob will not be able to front page this post because Digg shut their entire site down tonight to develop a counter measure. This is what I see right now as I try to get onto Digg:

Wikipedia has also frozen the HD-DVD page so users cannot post the key there, and they’ve locked out the page to the key itself. I wonder if Wikipedia will be the next target of the online “mob”. Wow, isn’t this whole user created content thing great? :)

Update: Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg has posted his thoughts on tonights events:

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.

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