“May Day” is exactly what Digg is exclaiming right now. Anyone who’s a regular reader of Digg, Slashdot and the like knows, users are doing nothing short of revolting against DRM and responding to—what people say is uncalled for—censorship (even if its in a site’s power to moderate the user-posted content). They’re flooding Digg with links to ever more creative expressions of the access key for unlocking HD-DVDs. The MPAA might as well just throw in the towel and either generate a new key, develop a new copy-protection scheme (that will get defeated sooner or later), or just follow the music industry’s lead and phase out DRM all together. By trying to squash this information, all they’ve done is publicize it even more. When they say that if it gets on the internet it stays on the internet, they mean it.

Putting up a site for my posse was always on the back burner. Odd since my current profession is web development, one would think such a creation would be birthed sooner than later. Yet as studious, hard-working, creative, and focused as the four of us can be, our natural tendency is towards laziness. Many an anecdote will attest to that. Not that laziness is a bad thing. Getting the most out of the least effort is nothing short of being efficient. And we should all strive to be more efficient. So in spite of said laziness (and a need to justify a sizable expenditure for a hosting plan) I built ourselves a soapbox. So it begins…