The [[American Bar Association]] just published this:
http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/my11blog.html
Precis: Digg may well be protected under CDA section 230, *because* the string of hex digits is probably not copyrightable (too short, and they've already claimed it as a mechanism, i.e. an interface, which is not copyrightable ... probably). CDA sec 230 is why people who really want to sue over a Wikipedia article will generally have to approach the actual contributor.
Of course, the article notes "it may still be risky."
Oh, they also note the AACS LA hasn't a hope, and the DMCA basically doesn't work.
Presently, [[AACS encryption key controversy]] is actually somewhat stable and readable as an article. There's one arbitration case been brought already over it, but it seems most of the article contributors are horrified disagreements got that far. And even those of us who really want the key to be quoted in the article are quite happy to wait for things to calm down.
Next week, week after? Whenever the story dies out in the media.
- d.