Insim under new management!

[WedgewoodBlue]

My dream, Walt comes in to find his newly acquired business investment has tanked, The site is completely empty save one small announcement........ "Walt, about your business investment tanking, sucks to be you. Get over it."

  My dream, is me, you, rum balls, a deserted island and a pirate ship...Arrr!

Oh la la, *fans self* a man after my own heart, c'mere big boy 

[SoggyFox]

Also, and Pes can correct me if I'm wrong, but he's only proposing burning because its the only way it looks like he'll be able to save everything.

[thedom]

My dream, Walt comes in to find his newly acquired business investment has tanked, The site is completely empty save one small announcement........ "Walt, about your business investment tanking, sucks to be you. Get over it."

  My dream, is me, you, rum balls, a deserted island and a pirate ship...Arrr!

You seem to like Wedge an awful lot dont ya?

[Paden]

It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation.

[kenmtl]

Ya he said given the present situation with the lookyloos, it was probably going to make it go boom. But even then there's a possibility it might not work.

[Sigmund]

Also, and Pes can correct me if I'm wrong, but he's only proposing burning because its the only way it looks like he'll be able to save everything.

If this is the case it kind of changes the situation, at least from my point of view. I can't speak for anybody else, but to me, if the website gets burned through an effort to salvage the downloads off Insim, that's a very different situation and much more justifiable. *shrug* For what it's worth, I'd say Pescado should do whatever he has to do in an effort to back everything up.

[neriana]

Also, and Pes can correct me if I'm wrong, but he's only proposing burning because its the only way it looks like he'll be able to save everything.

If this is the case it kind of changes the situation, at least from my point of view. I can't speak for anybody else, but to me, if the website gets burned through an effort to salvage the downloads off Insim, that's a very different situation and much more justifiable. *shrug* For what it's worth, I'd say Pescado should do whatever he has to do in an effort to back everything up.

I agree with this. If he needs to shut the site down to save it, then shut it down. I'd still be worried about the legality of it though.

[SoggyFox]

There is that.  But I trust Pes knows what he's doing, and I'll do my best to not get under foot while he's doing it.

[Anouk]

This is something I can't support, no matter what reason. You host my files against my will? I DDos you = rong.
You host my files, not yet against my will? I ruin your databass = rite? I think not.

[Zillah]

I'd say IF it's the only way to save it and IF it won't mean legal trouble for Pescado, then burn - but as has been said, wait till tomorrow to see if the traffic suddenly drops due to 12's going back to school.

Question - if Pes decided to burn it, will there be time for some of us to go back on and try and grab what remains - tutorials, files that are left, etc, just in case, or will that not be necessary?

[HugeLunatic]

I really don't think that K&E pulled a fast one on ole Walt.  Any one sinking money into a business would at least research it a bit.  I think he did research, and found paysites that continue to run despite EA's EULA claiming it's illegal.  And EA doing nothing to shut them down.  Did he see the giant controversy?  Maybe some of it, but the fact that TSR continues to charge and is making money, he felt confident that he could do the same.  He doesn't know the community, and the reaction of most to having any type of mandatory donations.


Now curious?  If Walt is on site at InSIM, has he posted anything?  Noticed anything?  Pescado?  I'm dying to know his reaction, but I won't go over there. 

[kenmtl]

I'm still with Nouk, it's not what we do.

[Paden]

I can't agree with the method. Yes, the data is needed. BUT, destroying the site makes us not very far up in the food chain, because we're stooping to methods that Thoma$$ can only have wet dreams about. That's just what I feel though. Probably others think differently from me.

[Zillah]

I agree that it's a shitty thing to do, but it seems that there's no other option. If it were just spite, I'd say no way, but it seems like it's a kind of virtual self-defense - the only way to save the site - it's a moral conundrum.

[MistaEff]