Social news site Digg recently caved to the pressure of the DRM goon squad and pulled a news story that included a hexadecimal software key that can be used to circumvent DRM on HD-DVDs, violating the fundamental ethos of users-as-editors that got the site its loyal userbase.

Despite liberally deploying the banhammer, Digg’s having a little trouble stemming the tide of stories in the wake of their censorship.

Our favourite of the thousands of recently-submitted stories:

“Jenny Jenny, 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0″

Update: Digg’s Kevin Rose admits defeat, and decides that it’s easier to fight the media giants than tame its users. One commenter quips about a new job opening at Digg: “Our small team of lawyers are currently experiencing rapid growth! If you want to be a part of a dynamic team send your resume to jobs@digg.com. NB: must be able to work 20h per day.”

Update update: Boing Boing reports on how any of us regular schmucks can get (just like the copyright goons) lay claim to ownership of a 128-bit number. Cory warns: “My number is AF BC 9C 5D DA 6B 7A A8 7C 33 A1 2B E7 D3 EA 11. You aren’t allowed to know this number. I also reloaded the page and generated a few more numbers. I’m not telling you what they are, but I’ll be setting up a Google alert for them and if I catch you using them, I’m gonna take your house away.” Thank God we’re only renters.