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Digg would rather die trying

May 2, 2007 By Minic Rivera

Digg users can take down Digg. Literally. That’s what exactly happened when a code that unlocked copyrighted DVDs appeared on Kevin Rose’s front page and Digg users started digging it. The site’s administrators began taking down the links and suspending the accounts of those who posted them. The users disagreed and revolted by flooding the site. The New York Times has an article about it.

So, Rose posted on his blog: “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. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”

Kevin, you have to realize that you don’t “own” Digg anymore. Well, at least you did, with your blog post.

Filed Under: Digg, Online Community, Opinion, User Generated

Comments

  1. mblair says

    May 3, 2007 at 6:02 am

    I agree completely — Digg’s infrastructure, while nice, is only a tiny percentage of their overall valuation. The real gold is in the community. As with nightclubs, if Digg ever gets “uncool” the crowd will move on. I think that Kevin Rose has to put staying “cool” as priority number one or all he would own would be a few hundred thousand lines of code and a website with a bad reputation.

  2. Angela says

    May 3, 2007 at 9:38 am

    Very interesting, thanks for posting.

Trackbacks

  1. mi(sual).com » Blog Archive » Trouble at Digg says:
    May 2, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    […] been one hell of a day at Digg, a user moderated news website. Trouble started when users posted a page that has code to unlock copy-protected DVDs. Administrators removed the […]

  2. So Who’s In Control of DIGG? at The Blog Herald says:
    May 2, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    […] Rivera over at 901am said Kevin Rose should realize that he no longer owns Digg. However, I think ultimately the ones who can pull the plug at will are still in control and […]

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