You can hear the blood curdling screams of the Hollywood lawyers, and the stomping feet of mobilized technology bloggers everywhere today. All thanks to a simple post that broke the top secret Digital Rights Management (DRM) code on HD-DVD.
After initially pulling these posts from Digg that included the DRM code (allowing tech savvy folks to duplicate HD-DVDs), CEO Kevin Rose responded to the enormous backlash from the online community and reversed his decision. The bloggers, mainstream media and online press are ALL over this story.
A tipping point? Or the start of an all out legal war? Probably both. Share with us your comments and predictions on what’s to come, and we’ll buy beers for the “winners”. Special recognition for the most “creative” predictions too….
Whatever happens you can be sure it ain’t gonna be pretty.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Jamie Thomas // May 4, 2007 at 1:58 am
Great insight on seeing this event as a possible tipping point. Depending on how the lawyers handles Kevin’s action, we will probably hear about this many more times.
2 Andy Hunter // May 4, 2007 at 11:17 am
Maybe a groundbreaking legal ruling? More on the story here: http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2007/05/03/digg-user-revolt-pits-web-users-against-copyright-protection/
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