The power of the user-fueld Web was demonstrated on Wednesday when digg.com, the news site that gives users content prioritization control, said it would bow to user protests against removing stories that reveal a code to crack copy protection on HD-DVDs, reports The Financial Times.

Digg admins initially pulled such stories at the request of the Advanced Access Content System, a consortium that manages licensing for high-definition copy protection. However, users rebelled by flooding the site with votes for the crack.

Founder Kevin Rose of Digg recently blogged, "You’ve made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company […] We won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."

Co-founder Jay Adelson said although the site is at risk of a suit, the information in question was already in the public domain and therefore out of administrative control.

"At this point what we're going to do is get back to work, get back to democratizing media and empowering our users," he told the Times.