At around the first 24 hours of the first day of May, Digg has been flooded with this mysterious code:

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

This code is most likely connected to the HD-DVD hack that has been circulating online. According to Jay Adelson, “Digg has been notified by the owners of this intellectual property that they believe the posting of the encryption key infringes their intellectual property rights” so they had to remove all comments that contain this code.

Eight hours later, Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, announces that they will no longer delete such stories or comments containing the code. His last words on this statement would be

“If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”

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