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Title: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: Alhexx on 2006-06-13 20:33:01
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... :-D

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 (http://www.svenswmwette.com/bild/bild.jpg) 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?  :-D

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...
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: zero88 on 2006-06-13 21:08:13
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.
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: M0T on 2006-06-13 21:11:12
Someone managed to get onto the field tonight at Croatia Vs Brazil and that was at Berlin where the final will be.
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: zero88 on 2006-06-13 21:13:17
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.
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: ChaosControl on 2006-06-14 01:50:04
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?
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: zero88 on 2006-06-14 01:59:59
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?
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: NobodyImportant on 2006-06-14 02:19:18
Viral marketing. I've seen lots of these.

http://www.savemyfinger.com
http://www.helpwinmybet.com
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: Alhexx on 2006-06-14 17:08:27
Quote from: NobodyImportant
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 (http://www.domainsbyproxy.com).

 - Alhexx
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: M0T on 2006-06-14 17:58:20
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.
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: zero88 on 2006-06-14 19:48:02
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.
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: Chrisu on 2006-06-15 18:21:38
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.
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: NobodyImportant on 2006-06-15 22:13:27
As I said earlier, its fake. :)
Title: Re: Where's a bot when you need one?
Post by: Chrisu on 2006-06-17 12:55:10
The site is down.