Legal Action

[Kestrel]

It has come to our attention that the largest of our community Discord servers has been shut down after an unjust and absurd legal threat was made against the community member(s) who run it.

The OctoWoW team has no additional insight into this incident, and we have no control or special access to any of the community run Disord servers.

This is a stark reminder of why Discord, social media accounts, and even services like Cloudflare are not safe for any private server archivist/creator.

We also want to take this time to re-iterate our gratefulness for our service provider FlokiNet. The last few weeks have been tough, and part of that is the trade off we made when we architected this anonymous structure.

We have seen some in the community lament the speed at which we are able to get hardware changes made. We view this as a worthy trade off for the security and anonymity that we have. Our service provider FlokiNet has been instrumental to our ability to host the server, and they have been supportive of our legal rights in a way that most providers could never.

One of our first correspondences (over three months ago) with the FlokiNet Support Team was them forwarding us a domain name dispute Blizzard made in an attempt to gain control of our domain. This included a (standard) €1,000 dispute fee that would be paid by Blizzard if they complied. FlokiNet threw the documents in the trash so to speak.

[Momohomo]

what if flokinet eventually caves if it alraedy has come to action that blizzard is aware of them? to me it seems too much depends on them currently and you guys should work out some fallback setup

[Ocdonotsteal]

Bro jump scared me with that title.

And if there's a back up they would not and should not share that.

So the C&D Sofia received was Blizzard, confirmed?

[Prince]

Keep up the good work, some players are losing faith but getting everything in order will settle doubts for good.

[Ciggitybutts]

Even if I'm a little spicy I feel you still are working on it. My "XD" to discord shutting down was just who was behind it.

[Defiant]

what if flokinet eventually caves if it alraedy has come to action that blizzard is aware of them? to me it seems too much depends on them currently and you guys should work out some fallback setup

Ah yes, here's the guy who posted a fake screenshot of a lawsuit against Octowow.

[Dracarusggotham]

It has come to our attention that the largest of our community Discord servers has been shut down after an unjust and absurd legal threat was made against the community member(s) who run it.

The OctoWoW team has no additional insight into this incident, and we have no control or special access to any of the community run Disord servers.

This is a stark reminder of why Discord, social media accounts, and even services like Cloudflare are not safe for any private server archivist/creator.

We also want to take this time to re-iterate our gratefulness for our service provider FlokiNet. The last few weeks have been tough, and part of that is the trade off we made when we architected this anonymous structure.

We have seen some in the community lament the speed at which we are able to get hardware changes made. We view this as a worthy trade off for the security and anonymity that we have. Our service provider FlokiNet has been instrumental to our ability to host the server, and they have been supportive of our legal rights in a way that most providers could never.

One of our first correspondences (over three months ago) with the FlokiNet Support Team was them forwarding us a domain name dispute Blizzard made in an attempt to gain control of our domain. This included a (standard) €1,000 dispute fee that would be paid by Blizzard if they complied. FlokiNet threw the documents in the trash so to speak.

I think a few words of hope would be very helpful to the community.

Could you confirm that, for the moment, the server is "safe" and that there are no serious threats beyond DDoS attacks?

I've seen several people worried that the server might experience a C&D in the coming days.

[Forumusername]

Chad FlokiNet, if only they did server upgrades faster lmao

[Raerity]

RIP Octo Fan Community!

[Corrosive1]

It has come to our attention that the largest of our community Discord servers has been shut down after an unjust and absurd legal threat was made against the community member(s) who run it.

The OctoWoW team has no additional insight into this incident, and we have no control or special access to any of the community run Disord servers.

This is a stark reminder of why Discord, social media accounts, and even services like Cloudflare are not safe for any private server archivist/creator.

We also want to take this time to re-iterate our gratefulness for our service provider FlokiNet. The last few weeks have been tough, and part of that is the trade off we made when we architected this anonymous structure.

We have seen some in the community lament the speed at which we are able to get hardware changes made. We view this as a worthy trade off for the security and anonymity that we have. Our service provider FlokiNet has been instrumental to our ability to host the server, and they have been supportive of our legal rights in a way that most providers could never.

One of our first correspondences (over three months ago) with the FlokiNet Support Team was them forwarding us a domain name dispute Blizzard made in an attempt to gain control of our domain. This included a (standard) €1,000 dispute fee that would be paid by Blizzard if they complied. FlokiNet threw the documents in the trash so to speak.

I think a few words of hope would be very helpful to the community.

Could you confirm that, for the moment, the server is "safe" and that there are no serious threats beyond DDoS attacks?

I've seen several people worried that the server might experience a C&D in the coming days.

they will apply pressure to any weakness, theres always a chance of a C/D or the server coming down. thats what you signed up for playing a private server. either live with it or do not invest your time...because it will eventually happen