Did youtube get hacked?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by ahkip, May 12, 2007.

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    ahkip, May 12, 2007 IP
  2. dopiitv

    dopiitv Well-Known Member

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    spiders... robots etc. youtube didnt get hacked
     
    dopiitv, May 12, 2007 IP
  3. ottodo

    ottodo Guest

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    yeh, it seems something unusual :S
     
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    flash9 Banned

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    i thinhk thats quite unusual too. it will be interesting to see how this story develops
     
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  5. ahkip

    ahkip Prominent Member

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    yea, they didn't get hacked, but someone have found a way to pump up the view count
     
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    Speedzilla Well-Known Member

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    What would be the point? Does youtube rate vids by number of views?
     
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  7. ahkip

    ahkip Prominent Member

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    yea, there are one page with the most view video of the day
     
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    I would like also to know how did this occur !!
     
    Hugeforum, May 12, 2007 IP
  9. dopiitv

    dopiitv Well-Known Member

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    I have seen some projects on different freelance sites about raising views on youtube, people use robots and spiders to raise their view count. There is not hacking or anything illegal.
     
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  10. ReadyToGo

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    #10
    Youtube getting hacked is as unlikely as Google getting hacked.
     
    ReadyToGo, May 12, 2007 IP
  11. dopiitv

    dopiitv Well-Known Member

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    and since google owns youtube... its virtually impossbile.
    And if it did get hacked IMO theyd do much more then raise 2 videos view count.

    Mike
     
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  12. TheDrew831

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    Hmmm it probably has been viewed that many times and they just used the "embeded code" on their popular website (which means people wouldn't comment). World Of Warcraft is one of the most played online games so it doesn't really surprise me.
     
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    tradeya Notable Member

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    the video owner cna earn money if the video was viewed for more than 15,000 times (orsomthing around that) then you got like 5$ every 1,000 views. (ah dang i cant rememebr the exact number too) but yeah you can make money with youtube video. that what i have heard.
     
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    MeetHere Prominent Member

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    I think people are lazy posting comments..
    Cannot be hacked :D
     
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  15. Hecky

    Hecky Like a Dungeon Dragon!

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    They must be doing pretty well then.


    If they did hack it, I should think they'd do something cooler than that! Unless it's an exploit or something.

    I'm not an expert in hacking :D
     
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  16. vartov

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    #16
    Maybe this has something to do, read on...

    A new Youtube automation tool is coming, it is a friend adder bot and it allows you to send automatic friends requests, comments etc.

    It is very similar to Adder Robot that works with Myspace, because the creators are the same persons

    TellyAdder is the name of this new tool, you can try the demo version for 30 minutes.

    The price of this piece of software is $39.95.

    I don't know how legal it is and if Youtube will allow this kind of things.

    As you know Google bought Youtube and Google is smart and doesn't like this kind of tricks.

    I am not sure what can happen, because Youtube could cancel your account if they want. Read what the Youtube’s Terms of Use say

    3. Website Access
    C. You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," "offline readers," etc., that accesses the Website in a manner that sends more request messages to the YouTube servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a convention on-line web browser. Notwithstanding the foregoing, YouTube grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials...

    Just in case, I'm not going to use it, because I want to keep my Youtube account.

    Let's see what will happen.
     
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    When you upload a video there are different settings and maybe he had chosen to moderate comments which is why there not all showing instantly. But thats still a lot of views in a short time, maybe an automated tool you would think it would of been deleted by now if it was though.
     
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    #18
    Hacked no, but spammed viewing has been going on for awhile already on youtube. ;)
     
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    #19
    Thats not "hacking" its just increasing the page views by using robots and spiders.
     
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  20. aydoubleyou

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    Notice how it says "in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a convention on-line web browser."

    Does this mean that bots are allowed, as long as they dont process actions too fast? Interesting how that TOS is worded...
     
    aydoubleyou, May 14, 2007 IP