@JFerio
As for the bandwidth part, they lied, and I can prove it.
A DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack involves multiple terminals bombarding a web server with requests for service to the point the server stalls from the strain, effectively paralyzing the web site.
What vorticity did was use a single machine to copy (web site copy software is legal) to contents of the TVT server, and a single machine simply cannot send enough requests for information (unless it was unthrottled, which it wasn't) to paralyze website function.
You want further proof? I surfed TVT every day that bot was running. There were no web site difficulties, reports of performance issues, and I was able to access every single part of the site, from tropes and works pages to the forums, and there were no technical abnormalities regarding their server function either noticed by me or them.
In fact, I'm impressed Fighteer had the gall to accuse us of committing a "DDoS" like attack, especially because he's a computer programmer IRL. He should know exactly what a DDoS attack is, and by blatantly lying, I don't feel the slightest bit guilty for being exiled from that nest of vipers, who I have reason to believe were begging for an excuse to get rid of us without looking bad anyway, they just needed a pretext to use so they wouldn't look like the villains.
In fact, here's the proof they lied:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Distributed_attack
In fact, the only thing that makes me angry is that Morganni was caught in the crossfire when she's innocent of having ANYTHING to do with what vorticity did, which was completely legal by both internet copyright law and the Creative Commons License.
Finally, I never used a bot. I just copied stuff from the Internet Wayback Machine and Google Cache, which is completely legal as well.
As for the bandwidth part, they lied, and I can prove it.
A DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack involves multiple terminals bombarding a web server with requests for service to the point the server stalls from the strain, effectively paralyzing the web site.
What vorticity did was use a single machine to copy (web site copy software is legal) to contents of the TVT server, and a single machine simply cannot send enough requests for information (unless it was unthrottled, which it wasn't) to paralyze website function.
You want further proof? I surfed TVT every day that bot was running. There were no web site difficulties, reports of performance issues, and I was able to access every single part of the site, from tropes and works pages to the forums, and there were no technical abnormalities regarding their server function either noticed by me or them.
In fact, I'm impressed Fighteer had the gall to accuse us of committing a "DDoS" like attack, especially because he's a computer programmer IRL. He should know exactly what a DDoS attack is, and by blatantly lying, I don't feel the slightest bit guilty for being exiled from that nest of vipers, who I have reason to believe were begging for an excuse to get rid of us without looking bad anyway, they just needed a pretext to use so they wouldn't look like the villains.
In fact, here's the proof they lied:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Distributed_attack
In fact, the only thing that makes me angry is that Morganni was caught in the crossfire when she's innocent of having ANYTHING to do with what vorticity did, which was completely legal by both internet copyright law and the Creative Commons License.
Finally, I never used a bot. I just copied stuff from the Internet Wayback Machine and Google Cache, which is completely legal as well.