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[Tempestdevil]

I believe this to be lies and falsifications by one Brian Bricker, classical! Now let me explain why.

Number 1: I was just browsing the site an hour before you announced it had been taken down. I've never done business through "blue domino web" before, but I've run a few websites, and even if you cancel your account, it's generally going to stay up until the end of your pay period. The only way to take it down right away is to delete all the files.

Number 2: The "cancellation" message is not from blue domino web. Hosting websites, most of them anyways, state very clearly in their TOS that they cannot modify your hosted content in any way unless it is violating federal/state laws or violating their TOS. Bricker's "cancellation" is coded straight into the index.html of his website, which would be a big no-no for a hosting website.

also, windupangel discovered http://www.oregonlotteryhelp.org/, a site which redirects to a standardized boilerplate page for a cancelled account. Granted, this account was suspended for nonpayment, not cancelled willingly, but it stands to reason that they would have a professional generic page for that as well. This is clearly a real and non-amateur hosting service.

Number 3: Come on, look at the coding in the source of http://www.brianbricker.com/index.html

Nobody but Bricker does HTML that way anymore, it matches up nearly perfect with his previous pages.

[classical]

Email from Val Seer, as of about two hours ago, titled 'A Warning':

[Lunsford]

I go away for the weekend to come back to being mind fucked. Yowza.

[Wulf74]

I just received an email thru our wiki from Brian:

[classical]

TINAG.

[classical]

The Kelvin address emailed me this, titled "It's Why You Are Here", which looks like a piece from TGATT:

[elfis]

[classical]

Damnit, caps. >_>

[natas]

Irony:

"Unforeseen legal difficulties" website page using a "presumably unlicensed 'Kodak' TM' on your background image".


Just kidding, don't know if this is really illegal or not.. just thought it was funny.

[3v1L Schwinn]

[Tempestdevil]

As much as I don't want to, I think all the clues have been laid out for us. We need to remove the wiki. We're supposed to keep our relationship with the writer intact, and the only way to do that at this point is to remove his material.

[Grady Martin]

^^^ i agree - bricker's "cease and desist" could be the most effective cluebat yet - all of the IG blogspot sites are still active and available, though some have no content - if the offending material is removed from the wiki, some of those blogs might become active again - also, some or all of the material currently at a few of those sites could be unsolved puzzles pointing the way out of this impasse

[classical]

>_> I'd rather not lose all the work entirely, though. Is there a way to hide the material from public view?

edit;; GUYS, CHAT, NOW.

[(Mr. Lurked)]

[Trailhead] I'm Sorry

[Aiobhan]

I bounced over to the Meta thread to see wtf all the angry was about, but... I want to know what's going on.

Can someone enlighten me?