DiggNation hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht appeared on “some show” (we’ll explain that later) and discussed the recent user debate on Digg sparked by our story from Monday regarding Revision3’s decision to stop a fan site from posting DiggNation videos early, for free.
Choice quotes...
Kevin Rose (co-founder of Revision3): “I don’t even work for Revision3.” He then goes on to explain the mechanics of how “we get paid at Revision3.”
Alex Albrecht: “I pirate things all the time… but without going so far that I could be legally sued.” I really enjoy Albrecht's work (I’m downloading “The Totally Rad Show” right now), but in light of recent events, that statement makes Revision3’s legal actions even harder to swallow.
Towards the end of the segment, Rose indicates that Revision3 may soon do away with DiggNation's subscription model and just give the show to everyone at the same time for free. Nice. But will that action include a follow up letter to Striker letting him know that he can find a new host and get DiggDown.net up again without fear of legal repercussions?
Sure, DiggDown.net would no longer be a source for early downloads, but it was a thriving distribution point that served as a nice alternative
DiggNation video archive.
About the “some show” comment made earlier… The host of the afore-mentioned video segment, John C. Dvorak (famed iPhone hater and connected tech curmudgeon), starts the segment by reading from an index card that “some Diggsters think Rev3 is being hypocritical.” The thing is, the only story on Digg about the Revision3/DiggNation incident with any significant Digg votes is our story. All we’re saying is that it would have been nice to mention the source of the story. Maybe Dvorak
(who rarely utters more than five sentences without reciting his blog URL) didn’t like this story from a couple of months ago.
Finally, if you think any of the quotes might have been taken unfairly out of context, you can view the entire video segment below…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3abAu_JtQQY
