Where's a bot when you need one?

[Alhexx]

The ones of you who can read german text have an easy job.
The only thing you have to do is to check out the following page:
http://www.svenswmwette.com/

The rest of the world has to read my english summary...

A german guy named Sven has a bet with a girlfriend:
If his site (the one above) gets 5.000.000 visitors until the final match of the FIFA World cup '06 (this is on 2006-07-09), then that girlfriend will run naked across the playing field during (or before?) the final match.
Btw, here's a photo of that girl.

Until now, he has ~1.6 Million visitors. (Btw, I count ~200 visitors per minute...)


So, couldn't someone be so kind and write a bot which access the site via a few thousand proxy-servers? 

However, I think that he will win the bet anyway, even without bots...

To all Bud Bundys: In my opinion, even if he wins the bet, noone of us will see a naked girl running around there. I think the security is tight enough to avoid actions like that...

 - Alhexx

 - edit -
Hm...
Taking a closer look at that counter, I suppose that there are already more than 1 bots working on this project...

[zero88]

Woah! Excellent.

But yeah, like you said, there's not a chance that the girl is going to be able to get out onto the field.

EDIT: And if he does hit 5 mil, someone will most definitely be getting dumped, since there probably is (or are going to be) bots doing this, and I somehow think she'll find that out and know that his visitors aren't authentic.

Plus, she'll probably chicken out at the very end, anyway. That's exposing yourself to the world, quite literally. I wouldn't do it unless I was getting paid large sums of money.

[M0T]

Someone managed to get onto the field tonight at Croatia Vs Brazil and that was at Berlin where the final will be.

[zero88]

Someone managed to get onto the field tonight at Croatia Vs Brazil and that was at Berlin where the final will be.

Yeah, but don't you think, then, that security will be even tighter?

Eh, it doesn't matter, in my opinion, anyway. I figure she won't go through with it.

[ChaosControl]

That's exposing yourself to the world, quite literally. I wouldn't do it unless I was getting paid large sums of money.

You got something to be ashamed of?

[zero88]

No, that's not it. It's the fact of just doing it...

I'm not an egomaniac, nor am I ashamed. I am what they call modest...you ever hear of it?

[NobodyImportant]

Viral marketing. I've seen lots of these.

http://www.savemyfinger.com
http://www.helpwinmybet.com

[Alhexx]

Viral marketing. I've seen lots of these.

Unfortunately, you're right 

I have been tracking the two sites you posted and the site of sven.

savemyfinger.com is owned by an american guy.
helpwinmybet.com and svenswmwette.com are both owned by a company called Domains By Proxy.

 - Alhexx

[M0T]

Someone managed to get onto the field tonight at Croatia Vs Brazil and that was at Berlin where the final will be.

Yeah, but don't you think, then, that security will be even tighter?

Eh, it doesn't matter, in my opinion, anyway. I figure she won't go through with it.

Someone else got on the field at KSA Vs Tunisia today as well. Security seems a bit lax really.

[zero88]

Regardless of security, it's most likely not happening, anyway. Someone's trying to make a buck by getting a bunch of hits on their website.

[Chrisu]

He has removed his counter!
Thats just crappy normal text.
Btw, a friend of mine wrote a C# program to pump the counter, it works well i think.

[NobodyImportant]

As I said earlier, its fake.

[Chrisu]

The site is down.