Censoring a Number

Yesterday, we posted about a popular string of numbers/letters that’s doing a great job of stirring up the web. No surprise, since it’s the same string that’s required to bypass HD-DVD security. Well, it seems things are really amped up now.

More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?”

If you happened to be one of the people browsing Digg last night, you know that people were not happy. I managed to grab a screen capture so you know what I am talking about. When Digg users are pissed, everyone knows about it.

The issue is, can a number be censored? It’s… just a number after all. Number fun aside, it has taken no time at all to see t-shirts, mugs and posters for sale that feature this now famous string. It’s like DeCSS all over again, except in a far greater dose.

Source: Slashdot