Comments on: Digg’s (Potential) Legal Woes http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/05/02/diggs-potential-legal-woes/ Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nick http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/05/02/diggs-potential-legal-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-741 Nick Thu, 03 May 2007 07:34:40 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/05/02/diggs-potential-legal-woes/#comment-741 What I would like to see is the 15,000 diggers that sat at their desks, ‘protesting’ censorship by making a few mouse clicks, actually take a stand if the MPAA does take legal action against digg. Let’s see how the diggers respond when the suits come in. ‘Digg this if you hate the MPAA’ won’t do a damn thing… Nick <a href="http://www.adgridwork.com" rel="nofollow">free advertising for bloggers</a> What I would like to see is the 15,000 diggers that sat at their desks, ‘protesting’ censorship by making a few mouse clicks, actually take a stand if the MPAA does take legal action against digg. Let’s see how the diggers respond when the suits come in. ‘Digg this if you hate the MPAA’ won’t do a damn thing…

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]]> By: anonymous http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/05/02/diggs-potential-legal-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-740 anonymous Thu, 03 May 2007 05:36:36 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/05/02/diggs-potential-legal-woes/#comment-740 Dear author... Digg is like a small city. It is run by ten thousand people - who volunteer their time for free... and also by a handful of paid staff. The staff cannot logistically be held responsible for the actions of hundreds or thousands of people acting at once. There's nothing they can do, except shut the site down - which isn't fair either. It's like suing the mayor of a town, when some demonstrators were doing something scandalous in the park, down the street. Digg is not like a magazine - which has editorial control over a handful of things it prints each month. That's not it's nature. Can the mpaa sue? Can the mpaa win? Maybe they can. However, I really think that the mpaa bears full responsibility for this problem. They put all their eggs into one basket. All it shows, is that in this internet age, the mpaa is not an efficient or competent go-to person, for the distribution of film. Filmmakers and film studios will have to start each developing their own DRM schema - just like software writers do. Dear author… Digg is like a small city. It is run by ten thousand people – who volunteer their time for free… and also by a handful of paid staff. The staff cannot logistically be held responsible for the actions of hundreds or thousands of people acting at once. There’s nothing they can do, except shut the site down – which isn’t fair either. It’s like suing the mayor of a town, when some demonstrators were doing something scandalous in the park, down the street. Digg is not like a magazine – which has editorial control over a handful of things it prints each month. That’s not it’s nature. Can the mpaa sue? Can the mpaa win? Maybe they can. However, I really think that the mpaa bears full responsibility for this problem. They put all their eggs into one basket. All it shows, is that in this internet age, the mpaa is not an efficient or competent go-to person, for the distribution of film. Filmmakers and film studios will have to start each developing their own DRM schema – just like software writers do.

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