aacs digg user revolt

When digg.com management tried to remove the aacs hd-dvd key, there was a major revolt by the users and within a few hours the users had won and the key remained posted.

Begining in the late 70's when the government tried to stop the public presentation of the rsa algorithim (M.I. T. went to court so it could be presented) , there has been an angry reaction to censorship. This is seen in the saga of the government trying to supress pgp, then mpaa trying to block decss, sony's failed root kit adventure, riaa's efforts to kill p2p networks, and now aacs-la trying to have the aacs decryption key (really just a large number) removed from the Internet.

In all of this activity over the past 25 years, what has become clear is that the public views drm as essentially unfair and that there is no enough public benifit to justify the inconvience to the public. Riaa, mpaa, aacs, etal have yet to realize that in a battle with an angry public, they lose.