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Re:YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces... by qingcharles on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:01PM (#37092520)
Yes, but it was done anonymously. The competitor denied all knowledge of it, but the guy he paid to do the reporting would talk to me through chat every day to gloat about it.

I ended up paying 15000EUR bounty to track the guy down. Found him in Germany. 15 year old kid. Had somebody talk his mother about him. Never had a problem again after that.

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Re:YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces... by zlg_codes on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:26PM (#37092836)
Did you ever try to recover the amount spent on the bounty? That kid caused damages to your business.
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Re:YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces... by qingcharles on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:09PM (#37093371)
No, I took it as a cost of doing business. I only went that far after he managed to find my wife's cell phone number and started calling to harass her.
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