Digg and the hex code

It was just another day and I was not at digg in the morning as was busy with some code. In the evening I went through the news and got to this page (cached) . I got suspicious coz being a google lover, I believe google never supports such things. To enquire more, I looked into the net which pointed me straight to digg.

It looked like I had missed a big war over there. It was all like, some one (stud) had cracked the HD_DVD processing key and had posted it at doom9 some 6 months back. Someone had posted the same on digg. A few days back, a DMCA takedown notice was served to it (along with google) by AACS who algorithm used the 16 digit Hex code that was cracked.

The Digg cracked and forgot its sense of fair use and free speech and started deleting posts and banning users. This was responded which overwhelming force by users who reposted more articles on the same as well as requests to bring back the banned users and talks about digg's fair use started. People started talking about leaving digg for reddit/netscape. This whole thing is well captured in this post. Finally digg backed down with its founder Kevin Rose accepting the will of the masses.

This embarrassment of digg was well captured and used by reddit and netscape supporting the revolt of digg user. I also in support with other digg users opened a reddit account as it was very simple to register. I tried netscape but it was tough so left it.

The war seems to ebb now but lets watch out what AACS does is respond.
Will it be something like Novell cracking lawsuits against linux or will it just cow down and accept defeat that the algorithm it design was not good enough that it got hacked within months?

Update: Now you even have it in youtube :)
Update 2: Digg story is top ranked for the second consecutive day in the Sci/Tech section of google news. Here goes the snapshot: