In response to content being removed by site owners from Digg.com, Digg users revolted and reposted the posts thousands of time and actually took down the bohemoth news website.
Recently a hacker known as muslix64 found a way to break into DRM protected DVDs and the information has since exploded all over the internet.
A 'cease and desist' was sent out by the people that oversee the digital rights management technology on high-definition DVDs that said all blogs and websites must remove any details concerning how to crack the encryption of HD-DVDs with threats of action being taken if they did not comply.
Among the websites contacted as Digg.com who complied to the request and immediately took down all users posts concerning cracking HD-DVDs... this was their first mistake.
Digg users became enraged by the removal of information and decided to show their disapproval by attacking the very website they loved so much. As fast as the stories were removed users reposted them... by the
thousands in an act being called a "21st Century revolt".
The website crashed under the weight of the attack at one point when the site became unable to bear the massive onslaught of users reposting and reposting and reposting the articles about HD-DVDs.
Digg's CEO Jay Adelson told site users
"Whether you agree or disagree with the policies of the intellectual property holders and consortiums, in order for Digg to survive, it must abide by the law."
But after the attack Digg founder Kevin Rose sent out a different message saying "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."
So now we have it. The first case of user-generated content censorship and an attack on a site by it's own users. The sparks are about to fly folks. Hope you're ready.
