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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by basch on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:48AM (#21782008)
And I remember what brought me there. Was people spamming about it on slashdot and digg. I have the decss controversy to thank for bringing me to a place that didnt censor a number just cuz it might be illegal in some states. I had heard of it before and checked it when it was linked to, but that was the first time I gave it a chance as my go to page when first logging onto the internet. Reddit has long been replaced as that "first page of the day."

For a while I actually switched to facebook lists, but then facebook got hostile towards allowing people to sort their follows into categories. That one I really cant understand, because it made facebook infinitely more pleasant to use.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2476952/digg-users-are...

Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by Lammy on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:21PM (#21785051)
Please forgive my pedantry, but I just wanted to note that you’re referring to the AACS (used for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) decryption key censored on Digg. The DeCSS stuff with Jon Lech Johansen was five years earlier than that. Cheers :)
Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by basch on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:44PM (#21785266)
i appreciate it, youre right it was hddvd not dvd.