Somebody has been spidering guitar tricks so they can have a copy of all the tricks on their hard drive. Today this spider program caused a long outage. Guitar Tricks was down for several hours (it is still down as I write this) and our ISP threatened to boot us off.
Whoever is doing this, please STOP. If this doesn't stop, we may have to do a lot of unpleasant things, like charge a membership fee or close down the site. This is very serious.
If you want a copy of the tricks, email me and I will help you.
Jon
bad bad news
# 1
Who The **** Is Doing this!!!!!!!!! STOP GOD DAMMIT. Like He Said E Mail Him And he Will Help You. Please STOP. 
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A Tout Mes Amis
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Life is Hard......
BUT ITS EVEN HARDER IF YOUR STUPID
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A Tout Le Monde
A Tout Mes Amis
Je Vous Aime
Je Dois Partir
(To All The World)
(To All My Friends)
(I Love You All)
(I Must Leave)
He's totaly Mad,Crazy,Loony Toony And Even Offty Mc.Goofty!!.... I LIKE HIM!!!!!
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Have You Been Drinking??
Yes I Have, Ive Been Drinking From the Well Of Eternal Sadness.
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ART THOU BETRAYING THE????!!! THY WILL PAYUS THY ULTIMATE PRICEUS!!! FOR THOU ARE THE GUITARUS WIZARDUS!!!!!
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Have You Been Drinking??
Yes I Have, Ive Been Drinking From the Well Of Eternal Sadness.
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ART THOU BETRAYING THE????!!! THY WILL PAYUS THY ULTIMATE PRICEUS!!! FOR THOU ARE THE GUITARUS WIZARDUS!!!!!
# 2
No site can't close... Must stay...
Is it just me or does life suck? Maybe I suck and it just life? We shall never know...
Up with dope! Down with hope!
A guitar is like a woman, touch her right, and she shall sing.
Up with dope! Down with hope!
A guitar is like a woman, touch her right, and she shall sing.
# 3
A spider is a program designed to collect a group of information quickly at one time. This guy didn't want to go through each page and download them individually, so he made a program that grabs all the mp3's in a certain subdirectory at once. It overloads the server because it can't handle the activity. The ISP is pissed because their server is getting messed up.
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# 4
Can you say , Panterawannabe ! LOL, just kidding.
Although, I wonder who really is doing this?
Although, I wonder who really is doing this?
When attempting the impossible, you achieve the best possible
# 5
ekstatis16 has it right. I doubt it is somebody who posts to the forum.
It could be a bootlegger or just somebody who wants his own copy.
It could be a bootlegger or just somebody who wants his own copy.
# 6
yo jonathan, are they trying to like make a comprehensive disk and bootleg it or something outta everybody's contributions.
"Take my hand boss"
# 7
why would your isp threaten to cancel the site? and what is spidering?
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"Take my hand boss"
# 8
bas-*d...it'll suck if you've gotta charge a fee...A lot of us (well, me) aren't old enough to have a decent amount of money for that kinda stuff, or the typical means of payin' for it (cards, bank accounts...)
Grrrr!!!!....Stop!
Grrrr!!!!....Stop!
Don't worry too much about me, ignore me long enough and I'll go away.
# 9
Is that why this site went from 1600 tricks to 1000?
Is it just me or does life suck? Maybe I suck and it just life? We shall never know...
Up with dope! Down with hope!
A guitar is like a woman, touch her right, and she shall sing.
Up with dope! Down with hope!
A guitar is like a woman, touch her right, and she shall sing.
# 10
no, there all still there(i think). maybe Jon thought i didn't look good to have 1547. it's better to have a rounded number i guess.
"Take my hand boss"
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# 13
I had to make changes to make this site more efficient. Those changes included removing the main trick counter. I had too many little counters and things running in a real ineffecient manner. In the next few months, I plan to rewrite Guitar Tricks and add a lot better categorization features and some other stuff that I think you will really like. When I do, I will try to add these features back in a more efficient manner.
I looked at our server logs, and it seems that the spider guy was just someone trying to download a copy for himself. I don't think he really meant any harm.
# 14
Is this still going on or has the spidering stopped?
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-ejd
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-ejd
email:
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Guitarbiz@hotmail.com
-ejd
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# 15
so far so good.
# 16
ok good 
-ejd
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Fender1165@aol.com
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Site: http://www.hometown.aol.com/Fender1165/index.html
(Sign the guestbook if u go :) )
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