fatwallet down. DMCA speculation?

[crobusa]

Am I going to be flamed for this.. (Mods, please say if approprate for OT if locking.)
It was mentioned in the bottom of a thread here, but FW's site claims it's down for scheduled maintance for several hours now, at the peak of their viewers...

My speculation is that we've had our first DCMA takedown threat realized. What has AT done to prevent against this? and which scum sent letters so far?

 

[Vic]

ChubbyWallet won all those DMCA lawsuits last year easily and decisively. I doubt their current outage has anything to do with that. Probably a hardware or database problem.

 

[Eli]

In the other thread, scheduled maintenance was cited.

 

[AAjax]

Hmm, well its been down for two days for me now. Im sure it has nothing to do with the DCMA but a bummer all the same

 

[Digobick]

Working fine for me.

 

[radioouman]

It was up a few hours ago.. I checked it when I got to work.

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

up for me

 

[new2AMD]

Originally posted by: Snuffaluffaguss
up for me

 

[royaldank]

I was on FW yesterday and today. Been working fine for me.

 

[KK]

I think Tim is in jail now.

KK

 

[AAjax]

funny enough it works for me now too.

 

[Wuffsunie]

Likely a router issue between you and them. There are sites that I can't get to certain times of the day that I know are up, too. And, yes, fatwallet is working for me.

 

[AllABoutTheDeals]

Yah, it has been down for me all day too. But I just changed to a public proxy (64.3.166.33 port 80) and now I can get through fine.

 

[J0hnny]

Why was the DCMA after fatwallet.com?

 

[masterxfob]

Originally posted by: J0hnny
Why was the DCMA after fatwallet.com?

for listing the BF deals.

 

[J0hnny]

Originally posted by: masterxfob

Originally posted by: J0hnny
Why was the DCMA after fatwallet.com?

for listing the BF deals.

What are BF deals? Please forgive me, I am t3h suck at the interweb!11!!one!

 

[beer]

BF = Black Friday = day after Thanksgiving. A lot of chains took offense to the free advertising of their circulars on the web and cited yet another totally inappropriate use of the DMCA to attempt to have the black friday ads removed.