The popular user driven news site digg.com is facing a users revolt after a story containing a particular key made it to the front page.  The story, which featured a hexadecimal key which could be used to "crack" or read HD DVDs was posted only a day ago.  Apparently, the MPAA owns the key, which is in essence a string, which brings up concerns of how far intellectual property can go.  Digg.com users feel that digg and the MPAA have gone too far in this case, and have starting burying stories that feature anything but the key, and digging those that do feature it, leaving digg admins scrambling and creating a waterfall effect on the site.

Could this mean the end of digg? We'll see how they weather the storm.  Peace will most likely be restored in a few days, after the diggers get tired of wreaking havoc.

For those of you interested in what they key is, well, we wont tell you, but we will give you a number whose two's complement could prove to be very interesting...

01000010011110111110101010010011101010011100101010011000000000000000 

Update: Screw the MPAA. You can't copyright a random string of characters.  Here it is:

09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

 If you want to use it, visit forum.doom9.org.

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Free over the air HDTV broadcasts may become a thing of the past in the UK. The country will makes its switch from analog to digital by the end of 2012, and the government will likely auction off the bandwidth to those willing to shell out the most money for it. It is more likely that telecommunication companies will get their hands on the bandwidth and use it for pay services, instead of the free TV that is sent out right now in DVB-T format.

Digital terrestrial TV signals have become extremely popular in the UK, so quite a few homes would be affected by any changes to the current system. If DVB-T goes by the wayside in the UK, it would leave only cable (DVB-C) and satellite (DVB-S) as HDTV mediums, both of which generally require some sort of monthly fee.

In the US, there is no indication that our free HDTV equivalent, over the air ATSC is going anywhere any time soon. HDTV over cable is possible in the US, though either an HDTV with a QAM tuner built in and the proper cable TV service or with a HDTV digital cable box with some sort of video output. The only method for obtaining HDTV via satellite in the US is with a HDTV satellite box, there is no DVB-S equivalent that would allow users to install tuners in their computers to pick up the signal.

Few things are free anymore, but surprisingly, TV signal (limited) is still one of them. Unfortunately for the UK, that may be one more free thing to disappear.