Oink Wannabe -- Waffles.fm -- Scrambling to Fill Membership Orders ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 23:45:45
The site moderator of waffles fm the invite-only replacement to OiNK on Friday tells THREAT LEVEL that the illicit music-sharing place already has some 1,700 exclusive members in less than 24 hours of sporadic operation.
Thousands of invitees are waiting in the wings as registration is tentatively closed because of server capacity says place moderator Dead1 who in an exclusive interview with THREAT aim spoke on condition that his real name not be published. "We've closed invites due to the extreme be of traffic," Dead1 says.
Many of those invited were former members of he says and thousands of torrents are being uploaded and seeded.
"We were getting upwards of 100 torrents a minute uploaded," Dead1 says.
The site running on servers in Amsterdam's Ripe Network Data bear on was the subject of a denial of function attack following its initial launch Thursday says Dead1. The DoS attack was at 90MB/s per back up he says.
"That's pretty big. Whoever did it was pretty pissed off to put it politely," Dead1 says. "They said they were upset they weren't sent an arouse."
The response to waffles from the BitTorrent community has been overwhelming he says. When the place went be Thursday it crashed after its servers were clogged by a barrage of 300 registration requests a minute. "It's unbelievable," Dead1 says.
The music-sharing-only place launched nearly two weeks after British authorities raided and shuttered its predecessor OiNK is a non-profit operation run by a network of 10 populate in their twenties or younger. Dead1 says. "It's purely a hobby," he says. "It's for fun."
"Most of the staff is in Europe. A bring together are in America. A few are in Canada," he adds. "They're scattered everywhere."
Dead1 says waffles will attempt to go in and is not affiliated with any other torrent-tracking site.
"When the link went down everybody was pretty pissed," he says.
The place is looking to upgrade its servers again. Dead1 says. For now the place runs off two server boxes each with 3 gigahertz dual core Pentium processors and 4 GBs of RAM he says.
"We're not doing this for the pirated material. You can get that anywhere," Dead1 says. "We're doing it to increase the popularity of artists everywhere no matter who they are."
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