MegaUpload has refused to pay Erin $100, the reward for 100,000…

2007-12-28 08:48 pm (UTC)

Those total bastards!

I'm glad she's filing a claim against them.

Edited to note: I think this may be the first time ever that I'm the first person to comment. Oooh.

Edited at 2007-12-28 08:55 pm (UTC)

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mustang_bex1126

2007-12-28 09:59 pm (UTC)

I beg to differ- this is nothing but pure, unadulterated douchebaggery if ou ask me. I think we should submit them to www.cracked.com for their douchebag of the week countdown.

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allichaton

2007-12-28 08:54 pm (UTC)

Oh, those fuckers.

evewithanapple

2007-12-28 08:57 pm (UTC)

I think the people who manage to get to administrative positions do so because they are complete assholes. No other explanation.

stokerbramwell

2007-12-28 09:01 pm (UTC)

I wish I could say that I'm surprised. I really do.

cleolinda

2007-12-28 09:26 pm (UTC)

Well, you'll notice how calm I am. I'm just glad that Erin was smart enough to test them now rather than wait until months of effort from now. It's shitty and it's frustrating, but it's not exactly shocking.

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minmorton

2007-12-28 09:21 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the update Cleolinda - please give us more news as it comes ... how disappointing for her ...

1 word.

sianmink

2007-12-28 09:30 pm (UTC)

DOUCHEBAGS

_ravengirl

2007-12-28 09:34 pm (UTC)

Ugh :(

allthelivesofme

2007-12-28 09:39 pm (UTC)

What jackasses. :-P

christigilly

2007-12-30 12:21 am (UTC)

Yeah, what a ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng!

(translation: frog-humping sonofabitch)

erinya

2007-12-28 09:55 pm (UTC)

Well, I'll never use THAT site again....

cleolinda

2007-12-28 09:58 pm (UTC)

I've always preferred sendspace.com, myself.

chris_walsh

2007-12-28 09:57 pm (UTC)

Gyargh. (I've already gyarghed at

projectdownload, but I decided to repeat my sound of displeasure.)

This rage-causing-reneging finally moved me to look at MegaUpload's reward page, and holy crap: that page is as classy as I'm drunk. Which is to say NOT. Small claims court had better love this...

particle_person

2007-12-28 11:12 pm (UTC)

Aren't they based outside the U.S.?

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shezan

2007-12-28 10:32 pm (UTC)

How did they even start justifying it?

cleolinda

2007-12-29 12:22 am (UTC)

They're accusing her of fraud, although we've been careful to make sure we didn't use scripts or upload content that didn't belong to us.

jwaneeta

2007-12-28 10:38 pm (UTC)

That's just evil. How could they?

craobhruadh

2007-12-28 10:54 pm (UTC)

I looked on their rules here, and their section on fraud is below:

"Absolutely no fraud

You will be disqualified and banned if you try to manipulate the results. Automated mass downloads are easily detected and strictly forbidden."

So, I don't know, perhaps they're trying to stretch it into a case of "manipulating the results"? I think the listed rules are pretty clearly intended to apply to things like bots or anything similarly automated, which she didn't do.

particle_person

2007-12-28 11:18 pm (UTC)

We looked into that issue way back at the beginning of the project and decided that it couldn't hurt to try, basically.

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