The Internet is at war

[dragondash]

So for those of you not up-to-date on the goings-on of the world wide web, you can start here:

www.freewebs.com/morpher333/wwww1.htm

Basically, eBaum's World, a site notorious for stealing various images, movies, etc. from all over the internet and claiming it as their own, finally messed with the wrong website: YTMND. This prompted a coordinated attack on eBaum's World, bringing down their forums, infesting their chatrooms, and all-around screwing with their website. The war effort and the events taking place are recorded in the link above.

YTMND screenshot of all the users attacking eBaum's forums accompanied by Battlefield 1942 music: ytmndsoldiersunite.ytmnd.com/

The YTMND that sums up everything: ebaumsraid.ytmnd.com/

[Darfox8]

I thought ebaum just collected videos from anywhere. I didn't know they dilebrately stole stuff and said they found/made it. Thats messed up. Well I guess they got what was coming to them.

[Anti-Jump Springs]

In a funny coincedence, one of my favorite Lemon Demon songs is about Mr.Bauman. Here's a nice video set to it.
(Please note that the flash/lyrics have somewhat explicit material, so if your offended by that kind of thing, don't watch.)

[Fire Griffin]

I saw this as it first happened. I was hoping to see eBaums totalled the first night this went on, but I suppose I missed out. Thanks for finding this summary, because I had no idea what the hell was going on hours after the first "attacks."

NeoPets rumored to have allied with eBaumsworld.

Yeah, it's false, but holy shit, I've seen Neopets. The majority of its users are too busy crying about paintbrushes and neopoints and roleplaying their winged white wolves with oodles of jewelry and appropiate camouflage for a crayon box to really do anything at all.

Oh wait, it's still going? Get me the popcorn, someone...

Remember the most important thing here:
INTERNET: SERIOUS BUSINESS.

[Mandinga]

this simply odd, if you don't want things stolen, tag them or wattermark them in a reasonable way.

[Heat Sonata]

I'd heard that the people who had been stolen from actually had watermarks on them, but ebaum had put his own over them, or some such thing...

I guess people have a right to their flash works the same people artists do to their art. Well, considering some flash works ARE their own art.

And their are some good Neopets people FG, but I'll give you a hint: few of them use the forums at all (or are even able to!)

[Fire Griffin]

irritatingsonata said:

And their are some good Neopets people FG, but I'll give you a hint: few of them use the forums at all (or are even able to!)

Not surprised. I've met a few of them, but they sadly do not make up the majority. Not surprised since the site seems to be geared towards kids and I've realized it was all a waste of my time.

First day I got back from hiatus to give the game a second chance, I was scammed in the hundred thousands and lost my account's "life savings." Then the site itself had a very very bad glitch that gave out passwords like candy, many people losing out on time and their pets. Neopets did not even address the issue and no rollback happened; they went on as if nothing happened. I have zero faith in them and they have a zero-tolerance policy regarding everything else. I don't want to play a game where it feels like everything is on a tight rope; there is real life for that.

[Santa Melty]

Now THAT is entertainment. Nothing like hackers bleeding each other’s sites out of existence to set my face aglow. XD

Yes, the Internet is serious business though... I could understand the spamming of the forums and the reporting of stolen material, but doing things like dragging sponsors into the fray and deleting pieces of the database... they're dabbling in the illegal stuff now. I'd never do it, but all the same, it's great fun watching other people do it. Top quality, grade-A, fancy imported chuckles here.

Then the site itself had a very very bad glitch that gave out passwords like candy, many people losing out on time and their pets. Neopets did not even address the issue and no rollback happened; they went on as if nothing happened.

Yes, I remember that. I think a couple of people even made some banners advertising that the user survived the 4/04 incident, which I believe is when the event took place... Neopets did acknowledge that it happened, they just didn't do very much aside from fixing the scripting error that caused it. Upset a lot of people it did... I think only a few of the high-profile players were able to get everything back. Most people that were affected received very little, if any compensation.

I was there at the time, but thankfully, no one bothered trying to access my account. I was insulted, to tell the truth. Not to say I wasn’t thankful.