Seriously, things we’re going nicely in land of tech: Joost went into overdrive allowing users to send out unlimited invites, something got blended and a decryption code was released that in turn caused what right now (9:00 PM on the west coast) appears to be a complete uprising on the front page of Digg.com. New stories are flooding in containing nothing but spam and a decryption key for hacking HD-DVD’s, each one scoring thousands of diggs all to show the site admins whose really in charge … for now. But I think overall Niero puts it best:

“Note to the HD-DVD legal council: don’t waste your time, stupid. The code is Chinese to 99% of the people involved in this Digg party. It’s the guy that chatted about it on mIRC four weeks ago with his legion of 7R0Z3NCR3W M3MB34Z that they have to worry about. Book a flight to Europe and get off Kevin’s back.”

Well I’m off to go illegally copy some HD-DVD’s I don’t have using my non-existent HD-DVD player, goodnight!

[UPDATE!]

Looks like Kevin couldn’t take it, Digg.com is officially offline, let’s see how this whole thing blows over in the morning.

News moves fast it seems. Between writing a story and publishing a story about possible DRM-free music coming to the iTunes music store, it seems like it’s actually going to happen. EMI has announced that it’s entire catalog of music will be available on the iTunes store without DRM restrictions. Chalk one up for the consumers. This move marks the 1st true step to a record company embracing digital downloads (welcome to 1999 guys).

But here’s the rub, the DRM-free songs will cost $1.29, 30 cents more than the till now standard $.99. Talk about a crap bait and switch tactic. We’ve known that the labels haven’t been too pleased with the .99 cent price tag, and they found a way to sneak in a .30 increase.
[EMI Group]