corigin.com

As of about five minutes ago, here’s a record label….

and here’s a fairly well known Scottish Music Newspaper site:

And here’s another one….

For what it’s worth, the combined total of friends on the list of a freebie newspaper, a record label with a PO Box and some random band is 8,829 which is a scary amount of traffic for a bunch of pages related to labels and bands you’ve probably never heard of. The redirect STILL works, and this is the ORIGINAL co8vd.cn domain I’m talking about here, not the Acilot.cn URL they replaced it with.

Myspace can no longer simply claim ALL of these bands fell prey to Phishing attacks.

This is patently a nonsense. What - an endless stream of bands, record labels, music newspapers and producers all woke up yesterday and forgot what the real Myspace website looks like?

Give me a break.

You know a site has got problems when the only surefire solution to not be subjected to hack attacks and dubious redirects is to not use it.

But that’s currently where we are. Well played, Myspace.

Also, has anyone else out there noticed there seems to be a high proportion of Scottish pages hacked in all this? All of the above - Scottish. The Dykeenies? Scottish. A bunch of the other bands I saw that were hacked were Scottish too.

But what on Earth could the Scots have done to annoy the Chinese this bad? Weird…
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