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The prosecutor is a #@*&%! : your time costs money. Working outside normal office hours is costly.
Maybe you need to setup a contract between the "organization" that runs the servers and yourself that states how much time (and money) does it cost to run the game.
>> we are a free online game and thus have no measurable economic damage, the public prosecutor left it at a sternly worded warning. The prosecutor is a #@*&%! : your time costs money. Working outside normal office hours is costly. Maybe you need to setup a contract between the "organization" that runs the servers and yourself that states how much time (and money) does it cost to run the game.
>> we are a free online game and thus have no measurable economic damage, the public prosecutor left it at a sternly worded warning. The prosecutor is a #@*&%! : your time costs money. Working outside normal office hours is costly. Maybe you need to setup a contract between the "organization" that runs the servers and yourself that states how much time (and money) does it cost to run the game.
Not to mention the damage to the service providers that have their other clients affected because of this. Besides, if someone robs you, would the prosecutor handwave it away saying it's fine because they only got $20
Yes.
In fact, when my mother's grandfather was in conservatorship, his conservator (my mother's cousin) embezzled over $600,000 from his estate, and the prosecutor refused to prosecute.
We were able to get somewhere over half of the amount back through a civil suit.
Don't ever expect that the prosecutor is there to help you.
>> we are a free online game and thus have no measurable economic damage, the public prosecutor left it at a sternly worded warning. The prosecutor is a #@*&%! : your time costs money. Working outside normal office hours is costly. Maybe you need to setup a contract between the "organization" that runs the servers and yourself that states how much time (and money) does it cost to run the game.
Not to mention the damage to the service providers that have their other clients affected because of this. Besides, if someone robs you, would the prosecutor handwave it away saying it's fine because they only got $20
I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates. IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the a…
Fascinating that there are people out there with disposable income for the sole purpose of griefing someone’s project/product.
I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates. IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the a…
Fascinating that there are people out there with disposable income for the sole purpose of griefing someone’s project/product.
Or so I've heard
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think OVH is viable in this case, they do mitigate the attack but in my personal experience they also mitigate legit traffic during the attack. Mind you, this is a process using a single port, with only around 100 active connections. You'll easily see half if not more lose connection during a DDoS attack.
I feel like I have to throw OVH a bone here. From running a service with 50-100k concurrently active connections on a single VPS on OVH that has shrugged off a lot of attempted DOS attacks over multiple years, I have the impression that OVH handles DOS attacks exceptionally well. Specifically I've never seen it drop (a lot) of legitimate traffic. In comparison to OVH, Hetzner (which this game seems to be using), is u…
OVH has consistently been filtering legitimate traffic for us each time we tried them and we’ve tried almost every tier of service they offer.
Have you tried reaching out to the kid's parents?
Is this game a really big thing in Germany? Seems like all the major teams are German.