justin.tv and their ongoing battle with griefers

The guys at justin.tv have had an interesting couple of days since launch. I have to admit it. I like watching it. If you are not familiar it's basically Ed TV. Justin wears a camera 24/7. The video is streamed using 4 EVDO cards. It works pretty well.

They suffered a bit the first couple days. It seems you give people an audience and a way to communicate and you get...interesting. Launch day was a learning experience for the 4 of them. It didn't take long before they had the usual 70% garbage in their chatrooms. Justin.tv has a cellphone for the program but by mid-day people were already calling Michael and Justin's personal lines. That night digitalgangster.com posted a chunk of personal info on Justin, Emmett and Adam (who isn't even directly involved). As the site's popularity increased the number of prank calls and a ton of text messages rolled in. The second day had even more inter-drama. A ton of text messages filled the justin.tv phone and someone kept messaging Justin his own personal info throughout the day. Justin, Michael, and Emmett showed up at the Y-Combinator dinner on the second night. During the middle of Yahoo guys' speech...pizzas started arriving. It was funny at first but Justin seemed a little pissed after the 6th or so pizza arrived.

 The most extreme prank happened late on the second night. A police officer busted in to the justin.tv appartment with his gun drawn. It turns out that someone called in to report a stabbing at Justin's appartment. Not funny when guns get involved.

Here is a direct link to the justin.tv archives...their archives don't work that well so far. Keep trying (complain to emmett...and don't censor please guys).

Here is a poor quality version someone capped if you cant get the archives to work. (someone posted this in the chatroom this morning)

I have to wish them luck but I wonder how long they keep this up. I don't think they expected this.