now they've started deleting stories relating to the community's outrage and response that have nothing to even do with the hex key. it's not about hd-dvd anymore. it's about censorship.

They can't control something like that because frankly it's too darn difficult and if someone was to start a blog with the title being that number how could they sue them? I mean the number could just be the title of the page and if its never mentioned that the number is used to subvert DRM, they couldn't do anything.

Then again Archie comics once sued a family over the name "Veronica" (veronica.com) saying that they owned all the rights to the name, and they WON!

I was there when it started and I must say Digg are not Digging it, They simply can't handle the amount of story being made, also if they delete one, another pops up.

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This is how ridiculous it is to try to enforce DRM. What I always have been disgusted with with DRM is it protects the crap being sold as well as the gold. One can not take back a horrible dvd or piece of software so you are just stuck. I personally always like to preview software to make sure it does what I need it to do before I buy it. Except for games, all the good games with DRM end up in the discount stack at Target for $10. The media industry needs to give consumers what they want. We want to be able to choose what we want to pay for we don't want packaged crap where we have to take a risk and have no say on whether we like it or not. If they let us put together our own channels and select the series we want then the whole line up would be different. They'd have to market to our tastes not the tastes of Hollywood. Movies would be a lot better if the law required all media be unconditionally returnable if one finds them horrible. Nothing like the survival of the fittest to filter out the chaff. Yes that would be perfect for pirates but then again they can sue them. That is their problem. They are going to make a mint regardless if they create good media.

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I wish one day I could say I was part of the "HEX heard round the world", but honestly my generation doesn't understand the importance of this protest, they just want free music and movies. This will be forgotten by most people in a week, the big companies will be finished with their net cleanup, and the paperwork for the lawsuits will already be in motion.

Long live free speech.
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Who knows, maybe we have made a difference. Even if we haven't made a difference in the long run, at least we did in the moment.

Moe Wampum has already been selling the HD-DVD hack code t-shirts for 2 days!
http://moeschwag.com/hcrcot.html