People who had his address and name were reporting that he was holding hostages. With shotguns and shit, basically saying he was a crazy fucker. At first it wasn't about the DDoS, but after that the police naturally get suspicious.Adam Jensen said:
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well if you can thrown in jail for facebook comment you can be arrested for streaming as well. America has been a police state since 2001 btw, nothing new here.Adam Jensen said:
Only im America, and UK, and France, and Germany, and... you get the point.
It's still hugely illegal, and it sounds like the police aren't far off the scents of those responsible. The sooner the better, really... it's a real shame this all happened to PhantomLord. A shitty thing for anyone to have to go through.Eric the Orange said:
LOL!hazabaza1 said:
But OT, maybe I missed something in the article, but what did he do to gain their animosity in the first place? Was he a random target, or did he actually do something?
Well the good news is this kind of thing will stop once the clueless general internet using public spinelessly give up their rights and let "Big Brother" take over. Oh wait, actually it won't stop, but I'll bet the whole spineless giving away of freedoms will continue as planned.
Thanks a bunch you Neo-Luddite joyriding "for the lulz" assholes.
Thanks a bunch you Neo-Luddite joyriding "for the lulz" assholes.
Because by continuing to stream online games he inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of gamers whereas streaming a single player game would inconvenience nobody? As soon as 2 games went dead because of DDOS attacks he should have clued in to the matter.Quellist said:
As far as I can tell, he was just one of the most popular streamers.Zachary Amaranth said:
major_chaos said:
I've been looking at the twitter, and DerpTrolling has a lot of tweets to PhantomL0rd, who appears to have deleted all but 1 of his tweets aimed back at them. All I can think is: What a pussy. If you are going to pull shit like this online, have the balls to face what you've done when it moves offline.
These sort of people just strike me as pathetic losers.
I want to know how they got his address. Did they get into his email or some gaming payment system to get his billing info? Was it on said on facebook or twitter by some idiot that knows him? Or did he or someone around him spout it out while he was wearing that headset around the house? It seems like no one in this situation is even sharp enough to be considered being put in the tool shed. His police friend also could have made it worse on PhantomLord and himself by telling him about a police raid on his house for a hostage situation.
I only watched his after raid video and he seems like the kind of person on facebook that posts too much info about their vacation plans and then wonders why their tv is missing when they get back. It probably wouldn't of stopped the police call but he should have gone to a single player game(like everyone on Escapist has said) to see what would have happened instead of spreading this disease to more severs. Hopefully, they finally got bored and will leave him alone.
Also, isn't Phantom Lord a dark guild in the Fairy Tail manga? Maybe the police thought they kidnapped Lucy again.
I only watched his after raid video and he seems like the kind of person on facebook that posts too much info about their vacation plans and then wonders why their tv is missing when they get back. It probably wouldn't of stopped the police call but he should have gone to a single player game(like everyone on Escapist has said) to see what would have happened instead of spreading this disease to more severs. Hopefully, they finally got bored and will leave him alone.
Also, isn't Phantom Lord a dark guild in the Fairy Tail manga? Maybe the police thought they kidnapped Lucy again.
If putting handcuffs, pointing an "automatic" (aka. a GUN) at him and making him sit in a car while they search his house is the worst thing the police subject this guy to, then he has nothing to whine about.
So it's happening right now, the group targeted another streamer who dared to try and play league of legends well aware of this, taking the EUW servers down and the league community spams the url to his stream all over the forums and hurls abuse at his stream chat nonstop because victim blaming makes the community look even better and he should empower the bullies by shutting the stream down instead of ruining *their* game.
The "hacker" group gets the bare minimum of mention and basically no blame, of course it's the streamers fault that the baby doesn't have its rattle now.
Fuck people.
The "hacker" group gets the bare minimum of mention and basically no blame, of course it's the streamers fault that the baby doesn't have its rattle now.
Fuck people.
CCP has just announced that EvE Online is now under attack as well. DERP are taking credit. Told them twitch TV integration would turn around and bite them, surprised it happened like this and so soon.
They were following him around hitting everything he was doing. They could've just DDoS'd twitch.tv if he decided to play an offline game. Like it or not, streaming for some people is a job. You can't just pack up and call it a day with your job so neither can he.kailus13 said:
Police raid? What is this, Athene's Stream?
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Poor PL, streaming is his job, you can't just *stop* streaming because some bellend with a keyboard says so. They took down EU West too, leave us alone you dicks. Riot can barely hold the server together as it is. I really don't get how people are blaming PL at all, you try having a hostage squad almost arrest you out of nowhere see how you react.
Also yeah DDOS ain't hacking technically. We learned how to DDOS (really, really badly) in basic computing classes, it's super easy.
[sub][sub]HA! Classic.[/sub][/sub]
Poor PL, streaming is his job, you can't just *stop* streaming because some bellend with a keyboard says so. They took down EU West too, leave us alone you dicks. Riot can barely hold the server together as it is. I really don't get how people are blaming PL at all, you try having a hostage squad almost arrest you out of nowhere see how you react.
Also yeah DDOS ain't hacking technically. We learned how to DDOS (really, really badly) in basic computing classes, it's super easy.
Ah. I'm not horribly surprised. I sort of wish I was, but I've grown used to people being attacked/harassed simply for being known.kailus13 said:
Ironically they targeted some of the games with complete rabid,nasty,snarky,entitled dickheads in a VERY VOCAL minority of the fanbase,FalloutJack said:
and as people said,why didn't this guy just play offline once he knew his fave games were being targeted,
entitlement,
the elixir of the new age.
So...hackers being dumbasses and getting their asses probably landed in jail for an utterly pointless reason, thus doubling their accrued stupidity markers?schiz0phren1c said:
These people are technically hackers, since they are exploiting a weakness in a computer system, however I agree that they have very little credibility because they are likely using pre-written scripts they've downloaded somewhere.Eric the Orange said: