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“We’ve been notified by the owners of this intellectual property that they believe the posting of the encryption key infringes their intellectual property rights,” he wrote.
Eight hours later, the website had a change of heart.
Kevin Rose, the 30-year-old Californian founder of Digg. com, whose career has included jobs as a security advisor at a Department of Energy test site in Nevada and as a co-host on a TV show called The Screen Savers, wrote to users saying that he had been wrong to censor the story.
“After seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear,” he wrote in his blog. “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 [to hack into the HD-DVDs] and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.”
