The following is an excerpt from a conversation between our admin Gamedecider, and Eragon91 formerly (former united admin, now banned from forum and United, now a member of VBV admin team) of our community.
20:16 - Ztiller: Aaaaaaand down it goes....
20:16 - GameDecider - Will: Your giving me the impression your taking it down.
20:17 - Ztiller: Passively, i kindof am
20:17 - GameDecider - Will: You live in Sweden or the Netherlands correct?
20:17 - Ztiller: Sweden
20:17 - Ztiller: This is high quality entertainment. Watching you trying to figure out the cause
20:17 - GameDecider - Will: In Sweden to hack, DDOS or take a server offline in a harmful method is a criminal offence. (In any shape or form)
20:18 - Ztiller: So is stealing others work
20:19 - GameDecider - Will: Technically they have ownership over the map, you were under their management. Creating the map for a 3rd party. The retain the right to use the map.
20:19 - Ztiller: I created the map completely independant of them
20:20 - GameDecider - Will: Plus the Map is 'Open Source'.
20:20 - Ztiller: The public version is indeed. But it is also clearly stated that modifying it is prohibited
20:21 - GameDecider - Will: Open Source materials have 100% ability to modify code.
20:21 - Ztiller: Not that it matters. You crashing every day is good enough for me
I give this information to the public to make of it what they will. I will no longer be taking a reactive stance towards attacks against the server. From now on I will preemptively do everything in my power and abilities to prevent attacks towards our server, whatever that may take.