Hello guys i'm posting on behalf of Mucha:
So what happened?
As you may have notcied that many of hosts that used xvideoshare script was hacked at same time.
Playtube have been hacked too. Is my data leaked ? No, playtube was not fully hacked, only file servers was accessed by the hacker and your data is safe.
Why my files are being removed ? As i have mentoined hacker managed to access our file servers and encrypt (damage) some files. We have removed all the files and will be sending emails to you which files was broken and removed from playtube.
WIll playtube be closed or is it dying ?
No we're completly fine and not dying.
Playtube will continue and all broken files that was removed should be re-uploaded. Will be there any compensation for that ?
Yes as soon as we finish sending emails we will change our rates from per duration based to fixed ones as well we will be providing with 5% bounces for every next payout for next 3 months.
How will you prevent from situation like this in futue?
We're in the middle of coding our new platform (not based on xvs).
We have also started coding backup function for our current system that will store orginal files at our cold storage location so if situation like this happens in future we will be able to fix all the files. Orginal files will be stored in one copy and will apply to md5 of the files. Which means if file you have uploaded has exact same md5 than other file that already exist in our platform it will be keept in cold storage for backup in orginal format.
You're banned at wjunction, how we can contact you ? PlayTube will have own discord server soon and all our uploaders will be invited there. We still continue support via email. Even if M. will unban me at wjunction we will not come back to this forum. All the support will be handled via Discord,Skype,Emails.
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And briefly what I think about this situation. Did mucha sometimes go too far in the shoutbox and argue with other members? Yes, but was he also one of the people who protected the webmasters when a person who is now banned has ddosed the webmaster because they were using a different player? Also yes. We were hit by DDOS attacks for the last 2 days, too, I'm sure who it was. Of course I could say the names now, but I doubt that these will be banned without proof in contrast to Mucha.
But in the end we have to accept this decision of the board.