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Capsaicin · 05-23-2014, 08:56 PM

Rounded out my collection of the majority of their ebooks when they had the Spring buy $40 get 40% off sale. Noticed that the problems started a day or two after Delphi started selling their complete Series 1,2,etc in large bundles. Is it paranoid to think there's some underlying problem here beyond the website (or that the website issue is masking).

(1) Amazon or google books "programmer" covertly taking down their site in order to hurt Delphi business and improve their own? (Yes, I know Amazon sells Delphi books, but they likely are selling *even more* now that the Delphi homesite is down). Seems unlikely this situation could continue for weeks, however.

(2) Amazon or google or some brick-and-mortar publisher catching them in some kind of copyright violation and putting legal screws to them. Hence the hush hush. Basically Delphi was doing too much good work too quickly and needed to be shown "who's boss," so some kind of publishing "restraining order" was clamped on them. This is just a theory of course, but why otherwise wouldn't the website explain better what the problem is.

(3) Website was susceptible to overflow bug/hacking, and Delphi is attempting to determine if/how many customer accounts may have been stolen/affected before they have to disclose the lapse. \

(4) CEO or other high-up decided to travel the world on impulse and left the rest of the company in the lurch

Although I was not even aware of Delphi Classics when their last outage happened, I can't see any reason they--then or now--would want to deliberately get rid of customer accounts and hence frustrate many of their customers. I always immediately downloaded purchases (and later backed them up offline as well), and assumed most others would do the same. I don't put much stock in "Chris's" one-time problem with Delphi CEO--I even wondered if Chris had a vested interest in hurting Delphi (Amazon, Google, print publisher?)....In trying to determine what's happened to them in the past weeks, I keep seeing 'ibechris' post near the top of google results...why?

But some underlying legal/copyright conflict, or hacking exposure both seem plausible to me.

If Delphi is being attacked by some "big boys" of e-publishing or publishing, I'd sure like to help them--they seemed like a quality small company doing quality work, at very reasonable prices.

05-23-2014, 08:56 PM	#25
Capsaicin Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Device: Nexus7	Rounded out my collection of the majority of their ebooks when they had the Spring buy $40 get 40% off sale. Noticed that the problems started a day or two after Delphi started selling their complete Series 1,2,etc in large bundles. Is it paranoid to think there's some underlying problem here beyond the website (or that the website issue is masking). (1) Amazon or google books "programmer" covertly taking down their site in order to hurt Delphi business and improve their own? (Yes, I know Amazon sells Delphi books, but they likely are selling even more now that the Delphi homesite is down). Seems unlikely this situation could continue for weeks, however. (2) Amazon or google or some brick-and-mortar publisher catching them in some kind of copyright violation and putting legal screws to them. Hence the hush hush. Basically Delphi was doing too much good work too quickly and needed to be shown "who's boss," so some kind of publishing "restraining order" was clamped on them. This is just a theory of course, but why otherwise wouldn't the website explain better what the problem is. (3) Website was susceptible to overflow bug/hacking, and Delphi is attempting to determine if/how many customer accounts may have been stolen/affected before they have to disclose the lapse. \ (4) CEO or other high-up decided to travel the world on impulse and left the rest of the company in the lurch Although I was not even aware of Delphi Classics when their last outage happened, I can't see any reason they--then or now--would want to deliberately get rid of customer accounts and hence frustrate many of their customers. I always immediately downloaded purchases (and later backed them up offline as well), and assumed most others would do the same. I don't put much stock in "Chris's" one-time problem with Delphi CEO--I even wondered if Chris had a vested interest in hurting Delphi (Amazon, Google, print publisher?)....In trying to determine what's happened to them in the past weeks, I keep seeing 'ibechris' post near the top of google results...why? But some underlying legal/copyright conflict, or hacking exposure both seem plausible to me. If Delphi is being attacked by some "big boys" of e-publishing or publishing, I'd sure like to help them--they seemed like a quality small company doing quality work, at very reasonable prices.