BRBu Imposter Servers!

[Eightball]

Gee, aren't we popular?

This morning I got a friend invite from a UGC contact. He added me to inform me of a hacker on our server, and linked me a stream VOD (skip to 30:50). One thing you'll notice is when he pulls up the scoreboard, is that the server name is "BRB, Uninstalling <<Attack/Defend #2>>". We sure as hell don't operate any servers by this name. He gave me some IP addresses, and I checked them out. There are two pub servers whose names bear BRB, Uninstalling. The MOTD is a video ad, and doesn't reveal a whole lot about who owns or operates the server. HeK reported that they are hosted by HFB servers.

Here are the IP addresses:
199.229.249.120:2008
199.229.249.119:2009

And here is our chatlog.

What do?

EDIT: MOTD contains links to http://www.pinion.gg/, but this may just be ad sourcing.

[Dtrain323i]

We invade the server and pub stomp

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[Gasman]

We invade the server and pub stomp

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[CaffeinePowered]

Interesting, it might be worth checking with valve to see if such shenanigans are de-listable offenses

[matter11]

If only other people on brbu still played tf2 outside tft and fnf... i'll hit up the servers next time i'm on and inbreastigate.

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[HeK]

I cannot find these servers on the Steam server browser or Gametracker. I wonder if they are targets of a redirect server...

[Eightball]

I got the same ad-sourced MOTD on a completely different server just now, and joining off of steam friends is on the fritz. It's possible we're seeing some weird effects of a problem on steam/valve's end. It's just really fucking weird that the server names use BRB uninstalling, but aren't precisely the same as any server we've ever run.

[HeK]

On closer inspection, the 2008 server is loaded with bots.

[k0ala]

What if someone's out there thinking "Fuck those BRB Uninstalling servers, they're just full of bots and spam"?

This will not stand.

[Versus]

what if anyone played tf2

[A. Crow]

who's got the BRBU copyright? 

[Mission Difficult]

who's got the BRBU copyright? 

I believe it would be a trademark.

[A. Crow]

[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=6696.msg259459#msg259459 date=1356934973]
who's got the BRBU copyright? 

I believe it would be a trademark.
[/quote]

meh.  Whatev.  I'm going to sue you for libel. 

[Surf314]

[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=6696.msg259459#msg259459 date=1356934973]
who's got the BRBU copyright? 

I believe it would be a trademark.
[/quote]

Correct!

[Ianki]

[quote author=Mission Difficult link=topic=6696.msg259460#msg259460 date=1356935122]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=6696.msg259459#msg259459 date=1356934973]
who's got the BRBU copyright? 

I believe it would be a trademark.
[/quote]

Correct!
[/quote]

Three years of law school, leading up to that moment buddy!

[at0m]

but...why?

[Eightball]

No idea. While it appears that 199.229.249.119 has changed names, 199.229.249.120 still bears the BRB Uninstalling name. What do?

[CaffeinePowered]

No idea. While it appears that 199.229.249.119 has changed names, 199.229.249.120 still bears the BRB Uninstalling name. What do?

Here's what I think they are - they name mirror popular servers, and cycle their name frequently, people mistakenly join them and are forced to sit through an MOTD ad.

The servers ops hope to make up hosting costs through the ad revenue, seems like a terrible plan...

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

Just report them to valve and see if we can get something done.