Serebii.net Virus

[abunaidesu]

Good to know the people Serebii plagiarizes from are finally retaliating.

[Lady Vulpix]

Good to know the people Serebii plagiarizes from are finally retaliating.

Does this mean you know who's doing this? It's not a good thing, kiyone. It's a bad thing. Lots of people out there may be getting the virus.

[abunaidesu]

Does this mean you know who's doing this? It's not a good thing, kiyone. It's a bad thing. Lots of people out there may be getting the virus.

Joe has overtly admitted numerous times that the majority of his content is stolen in advance from Japanese websites. I have no idea who is attacking SPP, I'm just assuming that Joe plagiarizing is the main incentive behind the attacks ^^

[mr_pikachu]

Well, there's that possibility. There's also the chance that someone's targeting Pokemon sites (and ours could be next) or that they're just randomly picking online communities and happened to hit Serebii. It's hard to say... I'm not making any assumptions at this stage, because we just don't know.

[Roy Karrde]

It could also be because of Serebii's popularity, like it or not it, plagiarized or not, it does get some of the first information out there. Thus leading to many other sites including popular gaming news sites like Kotaku and IGN to link back to it in their articles. Of all the Pokemon websites out there, I would say Serebii is one of if not the most highly visible to the rest of the world. And thus the biggest target.

Then again this could be some a-hole going around targeting Pokemon sites one at a time. Only time will tell.