Yesterday, the Digg team deleted a story related to decrypting HD-DVDs after receiving a cease-and-decist - on top of that, they deleted the user who posted this story.

Needless to say, even after a post from CEO Jay Adelman trying to ease the situation, the community was not happy. During the major portion of the day nearly every story was related to the decryption key in some way or another. Hundreds of useless stories, who’s only purpose was to place the decryption key in the subject and the body of the post, were created.

In the end Kevin Rose sided with the community and digg was restored to it’s pre-revolution state. Let’s hope it works out for them - as this is a very touchy legal and financial subject (since HD-DVD is a large advertiser on both digg and Revision3, the online video company much of the digg team is part of).