Digging a grave in a short-URL wor.ld

Sounds to me like Digg is attempting to steal intellectual property by passing off other news organizations' information as it's own, thereby reducing that group's ad revenue and increasing their own ... shame on them.

Kevin, Digg screwed up, but there is clearly NO attempt to pass off anyone else's information as their own. Have you ever SEEN Digg?

Richard, did you READ the article?

"A confusing change to the site’s service caused some shortened story links to redirect to Digg’s pages, rather than to the original pages on blogs and news sites.... On its blog, Digg says it backed off of the change somewhat, making it only apply to future news stories, not retroactively to all Digg-shortened links."

So what you're saying is that, they change their system, it redirects everything back to them instead of the original content providers, then they say "oops it was only supposed to do that for all new content" ... that doesn't shady at all to me .... While there may have been mistakes in the implementation, the intent is clear: to drive more traffic to their site regardless of who's intellectual property is generating that traffic.

URL shorteners like bit.ly and snurl.com are at their heart a company – and companies are endeavors created to make profits. If you are never engaged with the company then how can they turn a profit? (Other than some kind of subscription service arrangement with sites like Digg.com) We shouldn't be surprised then if (when) URL shorteners try to wrestle their way into the user experience in an effort to capture revenue (albeit through subscription or even advertising). And for sites like Twitter who rely heavily on these services... let's just say they got 'em by the short hairs. KellyRShort.com

If you kids dont stop it im going to turn this car around and were not going on vacation!!

Most countries in the third world never respects intellectual property rights. piracy is so rampant in asian countries.~`*

intellectual property is not really respected in most countries in asia where piracy is so rampant.'-`

there are so many intellectual property and copyright violations these days~,`

intellectual property is always a concern these days because of the very fast update in technology`"*

in China, they do not respect intellectual property at all. too many software and movie pirates out there `~-

i always read tech blogs because i always want to get updated about the latest gadgets.;

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