Professor Dubstep
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Okay, are we ready to get started? Yeah, that's fine. But could you use the name for me? Could you use Professor Dubstep? Professor Dubstep. I like that.
Okay, are we ready to get started? Yeah, that's fine. But could you use the name for me? Could you use Professor Dubstep? Professor Dubstep. I like that.
The story? Well, picture this. Kind of early 2014, I was 13, sitting there, working on my Minecraft server. It was breaking all the time. The host was terrible. Staff were fighting, and I kind of just wanted to do something else. Knife Party, which is a musical act, had a new album coming out in 2014, and it was delayed, it was taking ages.
The story? Well, picture this. Kind of early 2014, I was 13, sitting there, working on my Minecraft server. It was breaking all the time. The host was terrible. Staff were fighting, and I kind of just wanted to do something else. Knife Party, which is a musical act, had a new album coming out in 2014, and it was delayed, it was taking ages.
I was like, well, this is kind of good. I'll chop this together a little bit and I'll upload it to SoundCloud so that other fans can hear it, you know, and enjoy it as well. I put it up there. I didn't expect it to get, you know, much popularity. But a few hours go by, I go back to working on my server.
I was like, well, this is kind of good. I'll chop this together a little bit and I'll upload it to SoundCloud so that other fans can hear it, you know, and enjoy it as well. I put it up there. I didn't expect it to get, you know, much popularity. But a few hours go by, I go back to working on my server.
And then I check my SoundCloud after a couple of hours and the plays are just racking up, like 10,000, 20,000. And I open Twitter and Twitter is blowing up too. The EDM, the Electronic Dance Music news blogs have posted about it and said, oh, the track's been uploaded to SoundCloud early and it's a leak, blah, blah, blah.
And then I check my SoundCloud after a couple of hours and the plays are just racking up, like 10,000, 20,000. And I open Twitter and Twitter is blowing up too. The EDM, the Electronic Dance Music news blogs have posted about it and said, oh, the track's been uploaded to SoundCloud early and it's a leak, blah, blah, blah.
So, checking in my SoundCloud messages and... I saw I had a message from DinoJella. He was saying that I had some cool, well, he thought that I had some cool music, some cool unreleased things. And I had another message from Spintire, who was basically just asking to add me on Skype and talk some more. So I took this opportunity and I'm like, well, we'll see what he wants.
So, checking in my SoundCloud messages and... I saw I had a message from DinoJella. He was saying that I had some cool, well, he thought that I had some cool music, some cool unreleased things. And I had another message from Spintire, who was basically just asking to add me on Skype and talk some more. So I took this opportunity and I'm like, well, we'll see what he wants.
So he adds me up and he says, oh, so how are you getting these things? And I explain, I say, well, you know, I don't actually have anything. It's just kind of blown into something that it wasn't.
So he adds me up and he says, oh, so how are you getting these things? And I explain, I say, well, you know, I don't actually have anything. It's just kind of blown into something that it wasn't.
but that I do like to look around and see if there's hidden things that are kind of not really supposed to be in the main public view, but are made public accidentally, and things like that, or things that appear early. And he said that he likes to do the same sort of thing, looking and trying to find open directories on servers and things, and accidentally public info.
but that I do like to look around and see if there's hidden things that are kind of not really supposed to be in the main public view, but are made public accidentally, and things like that, or things that appear early. And he said that he likes to do the same sort of thing, looking and trying to find open directories on servers and things, and accidentally public info.
So we kind of connected, and we had a chat about that, and we were talking about that for hours.
So we kind of connected, and we had a chat about that, and we were talking about that for hours.
It just allows you to shorten links. But they had a glaring flaw in their system where if you add a plus to the end of any shortened link that was made while logged into an account, And you could click on the public user profile of these accounts and see everything that they'd ever shortened using the service.
It just allows you to shorten links. But they had a glaring flaw in their system where if you add a plus to the end of any shortened link that was made while logged into an account, And you could click on the public user profile of these accounts and see everything that they'd ever shortened using the service.
And many of the links that we were looking at, music-related, would always be made by a management account, for example. And they would share internal things on the link shortener as well, and we would be able to just see those and download them.
And many of the links that we were looking at, music-related, would always be made by a management account, for example. And they would share internal things on the link shortener as well, and we would be able to just see those and download them.