Digg is Down

UPDATE: Digg is back online.

The popular site for submitting content and having users voting on it, digg, is down.

Digg had some controversy recently about its users posting links to pages revealing the copyright encryption key for HD-DVD discs. Digg's users rebelled. Hundreds of references to the code flooded the site's submissions, filling its main pages and overwhelming the administrators' attempts to control the site's content.

Digg founder Kevin Rose said the site would no longer try to prevent users from publishing the code. "We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code," he wrote. "But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. 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 and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."

More here from Forbes.

Digg is now down, I hope it is just a maintenance shutdown rather than a legal one.