Two days ago a encryption key was posted on Digg that can strip an HD-DVD disc of its encryption was posted on Digg, as the posting became more popular, and Digg administrators became aware of this issue, the decision was made to delete the posting and all comments relating to it. However Digg users caught on to this quickly and became very upset. Literally thousands of posts flooded Digg containing the HD-DVD encription code and Digg administratiors were unable to keep up with the flood of postings.This issue with encryption first emerged at the end of last year when the AACS admitted that a hacker had bypassed security on some HD-DVD titles. The hacker, known as muslix64, has been able to access the encryption keys which pass between certain discs and the player. Once those keys have been obtained the disc can be stripped of its encryption.

Last night, Digg creator, Kevin Rose, posted a blog posting saying…

“But now, 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.”

Some people said that this was the end of Digg… but I think that this is a growing pain that every large website goes though. I don’t think this is the end of Digg. And I am very excited about the impact that it will have on the recording and movie industry. Is this a 21^st century revolt? We will see in very quickly… I will blog more about this “21^st Century Revolt Later”