Biggest Threat To Communications Infrastructure: Crappy Pop Bands

from the oops-we-did-it-again dept

Mon, Mar 5th 2007 6:05pm — Carlo Longino

It's hardly surprising to hear about heavy demand for concert tickets taking down web sites, since ticketing sites have a long history of technical problems they still haven't quite managed to work out. But over in the UK, demand for tickets to the ~~refill-our-coffers~~ reunion tour of 90s boy band Take That didn't just take down some ticket sites, it managed to knock out several thousand unrelated BT phone lines as well. Forget botnets spawning from email worms and viruses; it would appear the botnet of tens of thousands of nostalgic women herded by a washed-up pop act is what causes the real damage.

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Hoeppner, 5 Mar 2007 @ 6:47pm

:mood, amused:
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Charles Griswold, 5 Mar 2007 @ 7:29pm

That's Gotta Hurt
BT got "pwnd" by a boy band. Ouch.

Nth post!
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misanthropic humanist, 5 Mar 2007 @ 8:20pm

mood: frightened
We're under attack! Terrorists!
n+1th post
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theOngman, 5 Mar 2007 @ 8:56pm

rofl
this rofled my waffle
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Ayal Rosenthal, 5 Mar 2007 @ 9:05pm

Poor Brits
I don't want to know what happens when Oasis gets back together.
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I_NEED_HELP, 6 Mar 2007 @ 12:42am

OASIS
Oasis are still together Ayal Rosenthal
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Joe C, 6 Mar 2007 @ 1:55am

Not washed up
I'm not a fan however I think the writeup is somewhat unfair to Take That (oh god I'm defending them!).
This is actually a genuine reunion not a cash in. They didn't expect much, just a one-off show for nostalgia value. It snowballed after that though, helped by some strong new material including a number 1. However you're right in that the fan base is somewhat older now!
Not exactly what I call washed-up.

Just thought I'd put the Americans straight :-)
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Enrico Suarve, 6 Mar 2007 @ 2:41am

Oh the shame...
My countries comms infrastructure dented by a boy-band

Oh the paralysing shame of it all

Thank fuck Robbie hadn't joined them - we'd have probably imploded

Can't.......even work in.........reference......to.......bush

Oh the shame
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Harry L, 6 Mar 2007 @ 10:37am

re: Reunion Tours
Well I supposed it's a good thing for the British economy that the Spice Girls reunion tour looks like it won't happen.
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Jezsik, 6 Mar 2007 @ 12:43pm

It could be worse
I mean, the Bay City Rollers might go on tour
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