Web tends toward radical openness, as Digg.com, Pandora show
It has been two days since the controversy began at Digg.com, when users started submitting stories to the news site containing the HD DVD encryption key. If there’s one lesson learned, it’s that the Web tends toward radical openness, and that aggressive censorship is futile. A related story may unfold at music site Pandora, which we’ll get to shortly.
Here’s what happened: After Digg.com received a cease-and-desist letter from the group of companies that use the… Continue Reading