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Digg has sent a cease and desist to the company behind USocial.net, the website pictured above. Should we be surprised?

The site is publicly advertising its service that lets you buy votes in mass quantity on Digg, Stumbleupon, and Propeller.

TuxArea: "Since I've first tried it, BasKet didn't cease to amaze me with its features and functionality. The last version is 1.3.0.1 (for KDE3), but according to their roadmap, plans are to port it to KDE4.

It supports global shortcuts, system tray integration, highlighting and embedding images among many others."

The DMCA lets copyright holders send takedown messages to various sites, demanding allegedly infringing content be taken offline.

It's been rather successful in doing that. A few years ago, a great site, Chilling Effects sprung up to track all sorts of takedown notices (not just having to do with copyright, but any kind of cease & desist threats -- though DMCA takedowns are common).