When you hear people talking about a Hypocrite, maybe a Washington based, gray-haired politician comes to mind, promising to be a fiscally conservative Republican but infect leaving mountainous of new debts to his successors. Anyway, one certainly doesn't think about the diggnation hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht.
Their weekly video podcast, which promotes Kevin's digg.com Web site and business, is available for download at http://revision3.com/diggnation/
However, only paying subscribers can get the video version, while everyone else may download the audio version or can wait until a week since recording has passed, at which time it's made available for free.
Now, Kevin and especially Alex often brag about pirating content like software, games, videos, and TV-shows; and Alex is known for his opinion that nobody gets hurt since all the content that he's pirating he would never pay for anyways.

Surprisingly to some, digg.com's parent company (Revision3) went after a small web site (diggdown.com) that was redistributing the diggnation video podcast for free.

"Your reproduction, distribution, and public performance of our client's federally protected copyrighted works constitutes multiple counts of copyright infringement. Additionally, your use of the DIGG marks in your <diggdown.net> domain name and on your website constitutes trademark infringement. It is likely that your use of the Digg Marks is likely to confuse Internet users as to the sponsorship or affiliation of your services with our client despite your many disclaimers. In order to protect our client's intellectual property, we must demand that you immediately cease and desist the reproduction, and public performance and display of all audiovisual works owned by Revision3 Corporation and immediately cease and desist use of all DIGG Marks, including as part of your domain name and website name.
If you do not comply with the demands of this letter, we will be forced to seek damages and attorney's fees "
[Complete Letter: http://b6.jerrcs.net/uploads/pdf.pdf]

Since then, Kevin Rose suggested on Cranky Geeks that the video content would be made available for free to everyone at the same time ... which of course did not happen.

I guess, digg.com's relevance (and value) has decreased over the last couple of months, which saw lots of other well done and designed site coming up, all using an equivalent concept. I don't know if that's enough to explain digg's hipocratic behavior. However, it's probably a good thing for Kevin that he was able to start his next gig: http://pownce.com/ ...

Here today .. Gone tomorrow