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The Box Office Mojo issues thread. Brad Brevet is the new editor, the Simanton reign is over.

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TServo2049 Box Office Gold

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Well, I never remember a redirect to IMDB being put in before. If you don't actually intend to shut down the site and merge it into the parent site, don't do something that makes it looks like that's EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING DOING.

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TServo2049 Box Office Gold

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This isn't something to joke about, I still think it's worth it to back up all the data we can in case future bozos at Amazon/IMDb someday DO decide to do what everyone has suspected/accused them of trying to do this time.

This could be a PR nightmare for them - people will probably forever wonder if they actually INTENDED to absorb BOM and put it behind a paywall, and walked it back because of the outcry of the possibility of it happening. People may look at them with an element of suspicion and distrust from now on..."because you never know"

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Perhaps they have code in place that when the entire server goes down, it automatically redirects to IMDB? It did go down at just about the time when the Thursday numbers would have been plugged in yesterday (around noon Pacific time)...maybe executing the update on the already fucked-up server caused it to COMPLETELY go down? I seem to recall that for about a minute around that time, the site did load - then it loaded the maintenance message again - then it loaded IMDB.

IMDB, you should have explained instead of being silent. (The anecdote about an IMDB rep hanging up the phone when asked about BOM is even more bizarre knowing they AREN'T killing it. If you're not engaging in a cover-up, don't make it look like you're engaging in a cover-up.)

Public relations. You're doing it wrong.

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