Re: First a Denial of Service, Now A Lawsuit: The Million Dollar Homepage

[David Ulevitch <davidu () everydns net>]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote:
>
> What an idiot!  Doesn't he realize that the DDOS attack has  
> generated so
> much more press that he is probably seeing 3x more hits whenever  
> the site
> is up.

Yeah, probably.  He probably realized threatening a lawsuit got his  
website directly linked off CNET too.

-david


> -Hank
>
> > I guess this kid just can't catch a break. At least he's got
> > the moolah. :-)
> >
> > Via the C|Net Security blog.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > After being hit by a denial of service attack that downed the  
> > Million Dollar Homepage site, British student Alex Tew now faces a  
> > lawsuit from one of the advertisers on the site.
> >
> > The winner of the last 1,000 pixels, which sold for US$38,100 on  
> > eBay, is threatening to sue because the Web site was offline for  
> > six days until Wednesday, the Financial Times reported in its  
> > online edition on Thursday.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > More:
> > http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6029020.html
> >
> > - ferg
> >
> >
> > --
> > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> >  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> >  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> >  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
> >
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