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mglittlerobin
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They really wanted to give the middle finger to gamer and anime fans alike.
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laceblade
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This is super sad - I was planning to finish off all the shows I've been watching this season while I'm off of work tomorrow & New Year's Day.
Is there anything we can do to help fight DDoS attacks, aside from generally encouraging people to not be not-so-nice-people? |
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Minimimiau
Posts: 194 Location: somewhere on this planet. |
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I didn't understand why CR was wierd. But then I read a fast tweet and know why. Hopefully my plan is continue or begin watching somethin on the site until january, So this didn't affected me because I didn't enter scince yersterday.
Yes, scince yesterday I noticed something wrong. Those hackers... |
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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pro-tip to anyone calling these guys hackers STAPH! They are not hackers all they are doing is using automated ddos or Distributed Denial-Of-Service scripst to attack websites.
To clarity all they are doing is sending out a slew of false HTTP request on a sever until the said service or streaming site crashes due to false number of request. |
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paperbox
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why ;-;
hope it comes back soon... |
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Weazul-chan
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I remember waiting a good year to get the second half of something I was watching back in the day because of the speed of the fansubs AND the minimum tape requirements for the distros I used. I don't remember the prices I paid (especially since some distros used better shipping options than others so prices would vary). cost wise tho, if they came out at the same rate fansubs come out today I'd have been spending more per month back then than it would cost for a paid account at a legal streaming site or two (or three) now. and I'd probably get a better deal with the legal streaming sites because sometimes you had to top off the minimum order requirements with stuff that turned out to be something you didn't like then you had to figure out what to do with it. there was also Cartoon Network's attempted-far-too-early-to-work anime streaming site for a while, but streaming downloads were still clunky then, most had terribly low resolution (even compared to what we'd consider terribly low resolution today; I could barely even read the subs on most of those streams), and the fact that dialup was still the main form of internet made it very impractical. not to mention how small the selection was on there. |
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danls86
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its back up now... This is annoying though! They need to stop it with these attacks!
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mdo7
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Uh, it's not back up from where I'm standing, I still can't access CR on my PC. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Sadly, I there is barely anything powerful enough to counter a Distributed Denial of Service attack. |
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mangamuscle
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No, companies must level up their IT infrastructure so that their servers can't be brought to their knees by a bunch of script kiddies. It costs money and time to do so, but hoping they will stop doing it is like asking for world peace, most will agree but it never happens.. Last edited by mangamuscle on Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:52 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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#829750
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 I think I would have gotten very very frustrated.
I lived in a small city pre-2006. I didn't have access to a distributor and none of my local stores carried anime. None, Nada, zip. Internet was the only possible way to watch things. Though I didn't really watch much on the internet until i found fan subs on youtube in like mid 2007. |
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Spotlesseden
Posts: 3514 Location: earth |
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ANN doesn't need DDOS attack to go down. It goes down almost weekly. lol |
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reanimator
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All I can is, whoever attacked relatively small and legit business like CR should rot in hell.
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SquadmemberRitsu
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I was in the middle of watching Seitokai Yakuindomo you asshats
Last edited by SquadmemberRitsu on Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:04 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Kadmos1
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One group I could see doing this are those who are region locked from simulcasts. While I don't feel they are justified doing it because of this, I can see why.
From what I know, YouTube would be an ideal site to do more simulcasts since I think it is the most region-free streaming site. |
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