Link via Discourse.net, who points out that’s a lot of take down orders.
3 thoughts on “899,000 and counting”
?Que Huh? I don’t get it. I went to the google link/search and … I saw no commonality, maybe because none meant a thing to me. So I clicked the other, and they’re all happy about some take down countdown.
What is a take down order?
Sophisticated Internet users have banded together over the last two days to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the technology and movie industries to prevent piracy of high-definition movies.
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But its relentless spread has already become a lesson in mob power on the Internet and the futility of censorship in the digital world.
An online uproar came in response to a series of cease-and-desist letters from lawyers for a group of companies that use the copy protection system, demanding that the code be removed from several Web sites.
Rather than wiping out the code — a string of 32 digits and letters in a specialized counting system — the legal notices sparked its proliferation on Web sites, in chat rooms, inside cleverly doctored digital photographs and on user-submitted news sites like Digg.com.
There’s much more back story in the article.
It’s dropped back down to 766,000 search results at Google I see.
?Que Huh? I don’t get it. I went to the google link/search and … I saw no commonality, maybe because none meant a thing to me. So I clicked the other, and they’re all happy about some take down countdown.
What is a take down order?
Let The New York Times explain:
There’s much more back story in the article.
It’s dropped back down to 766,000 search results at Google I see.
One guy has even written a song about the code.