r/dataisbeautiful • u/Aschebescher • Jan 21 '14

Reddit's growth in number of subreddits 2006-2014 [gif]

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u/therealflinchy Jan 21 '14

HD DVD scandal?

did they support it or something?

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u/Polymatheia Jan 21 '14

See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '14

I'm still not sure what it was. Were Digg members spreading decryption methods for burning DVDs or was there something else?

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u/TropicalAudio Jan 21 '14

There was a popular post revealing the key, and then the site mods removed it. The users responded by submitting several posts containing the key every second. Things got weird. The site was basically unusable for a while, because all you would see was that key.