21st Century Diggers Revolt
Wednesday, May 2, 2007You noble Diggers all, stand up now, stand up now,
You noble Diggers all, stand up now,
The wast land to maintain, seeing Cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain, and persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now.
The lawyers they conjoyne, stand up now, stand up now,
The lawyers they conjoyne, stand up now,
To arrest you they advise, such fury they devise,
The devill in them lies, and hath blinded both their eyes.
Stand up now, stand up now.
(from: The Diggers’ Song by Gerard Winstanley, c. 1648)
History has an uncanny way of repeating itself.
The Diggers are revolting, again. This time, it is a much larger and more focused group of dissenters than seen in previous centuries but in one of history’s ironic hat-tips, a 21st century body known as the Diggers have effectively taken over the social networking site Digg.
The shot that started the revolt came in the form of a deletion prompted by a Cease and Desist order that caused Digg founders to remove a post revealing HD-DVD decryption numbers. Issued by Advanced Access Content System, an industry sponsored digital rights management organization; the order suggests the post might violate US copy protection laws.
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