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Tuesday, May 1, 2007. International day of work.

On April 21, 1856, in Australia, workers demanding better working conditions at the University of Melbourne headed by the Parliament of Australia. This revolt led to Labor Day.

The May 1 one more time is marked in history, but this time in Internet history. The site Digg when receiving an encryption key for that we would use Linux could play HD-DVDs, withdrew the article from the air.

The revolt was great and hundreds of posts containing the key (09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0) appeared in articles on digg and comments, each with a different theme but always containing the sequence. Soon, Digg has become a page containing hundreds of articles without much sense, but all containing the "powerful" key. So it was impossible to contain the information and the impact was much greater than if they had not been censorship.

Kevin Rose, realizing the situation and the consequences, wrote in the blog digg a note about the event.

Anyway, the fight was in vain. The revolt "popular" decisions overlapped to a site. This demonstrated the strength of a fight together. It also showed that the Internet is still young and full of possibilities of claims and protests.

Where are we going with this, only time will tell. But this was a sample of what can happen and the power of information that circulates freely in the four corners of the world in this virtual world (breeding ground for insurgents).