May 1st 2007.
Those 16 pair of number/letters had recently made huge impact on Digg.com, the popular user contributed news site founded by former Tech TV guy, Kevin Rose. So what happened. Well, the codes (the numbers/letters) 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 got posted as a story on Digg and gets promoted to the home page. Its the code that allows you to crack HD-DVD's Digital Rights Management. Digg doesn't want to get sued. Digg take down the post. User post again. User got banned. Other users started to post it again and all hell break loose. Posts containing that code gets dugg in no time.
Reports from CrankyGeeks:
Digg Users Revolt by BunnieLebowsky
'Digg the code' music video from GeekBrief:
Listen to 'This Week in Tech' netcast: Download it here.
And finally, Kevin's blog post here.
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