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"On 1 May 2007, technology news site Digg began removing posts containing the number, and in some cases, closing accounts which created those posts. The Digg community responded by creating a high volume of posts containing the key, many using creative ways of semi-directly or indirectly inserting the number, such as in song, in images (either representing the digits pictorially or directly representing bytes from the key as colors), and on merchandise. At one point, Digg.com's "entire homepage was covered with links to the HD-DVD code or anti-Digg references." Eventually the Digg administrators gave up and stopped removing such submissions, stating, "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. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.""
The first hacked HD DVD was Serenity. How poetic is that? I am not a hacker, and I am not a programmer. To me, it's just a symbol. A very powerful symbol.
"On 1 May 2007, technology news site Digg began removing posts containing the number, and in some cases, closing accounts which created those posts. The Digg community responded by creating a high volume of posts containing the key, many using creative ways of semi-directly or indirectly inserting the number, such as in song, in images (either representing the digits pictorially or directly representing bytes from the key as colors), and on merchandise. At one point, Digg.com's "entire homepage was covered with links to the HD-DVD code or anti-Digg references." Eventually the Digg administrators gave up and stopped removing such submissions, stating, "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. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.""
The first hacked HD DVD was Serenity. How poetic is that? I am not a hacker, and I am not a programmer. To me, it's just a symbol. A very powerful symbol.
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