Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
My thoughts are pretty close to this. With legitimate and easy to use alternatives (Netflix, Amazon streaming) there's not as much need for me to torrent TV shows and movies.
Reading the issue logs for google is an entertaining activity.
https://status.cloud.google.com/summary
Even google employees are susceptible to fat-fingering a setting, just like us!
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/developers-console/15005
A German publisher tried that, but they backpedaled pretty quickly.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/us-google-axel-sprngr-idUSKBN0IP1YT20141105
I too lucked out this round. A few GPUs back I happened to go with (at the time) ATI and was super pleased. I was days away from pulling the trigger on an R9 290 non-X when I logged on to [H] and saw the 980 review. I waited for some 970 reviews to come in and pulled the trigger, not regretting...
Losing Netflix is a dealbreaker for me, which is a shame. My current 2010-era WD TV (called the magic box in my house) is used for an 80/20 split of Netflix/USB storage. It's been my favorite of this class of devices, and I've even convinced a few friends to purchase one as well.
He took donations, so it's a bit more than just an IP address. The taking donations is the thing that will nail him to the wall in terms of identification.
This is really cool, an affordable way to get into dedicated CUDA stuff could be a lot of fun.
On a smartass note: How long until people buy this for mining cryptocoins?