Sometime this afternoon Digg users began to notice that posts related to the recent HD DVD encryption hack were disappearing or having their vote counts reset.

In response, thousands of users protested by posting and digging articles with the encryption key over and over again, completely taking over the site. Kevin Rose responded this evening with some good PR - they are allowing the posts to stay, and will deal with the legal consequences.Who knows what legal consequences there will be, really. It's an encryption key that can be written on a post-it note, and it's all over the net.

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-01 22:38:26
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