Blender Under Attack!
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2023
- Blender is under attack from unknown sources. The last wave of attacks seem to have died down, hopefully for good. You should be able to download Blender 4.01 from Blender.org right now. If not, try these sources.
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Before anyone asks, yeah it's Autodesk
The company that genocided Softimage
Of course it is
Yeah my uncle works for Autodesk , I say this because I in theory am biased towards them, and I still don't understand why 3DS and Maya exist... I think They see what I see, that blender is, *per dollar*, significantly better.[being nearly future complete, but free] yeah and that makes sense, No one else would attack blender like that.
First thought came to my mind 😂😂😂😂.
😂
Proves that Blender is serious threat to many commercial softwares.
For real
🤣😂🤣
Yup!
lol xD
As it should be!
Time has come to fully support the open source movement and open source software with my hard earned money
as someone who does already i feel anyone who wishes and can is a wonderful thing to do, with all the great software milestones being broken in Blender, GIMP, inkscape, darktable, krita, and so many more, now is the tiem for open source more than ever before, we are reaping the countless hours and dedication by these devs
I subscribed to the blender foundation for a few years and will be doing it again soon.
I've spent THOUSANDS of dollars over the years on corporate offerings
So I have no problem spending/donating hundreds of dollars instead on opensource alternatives
- Libre office
- Xournal ++
- Viwizard
- Calibre
- Handbreak
- Freefile sync
- Kodi
etc..
especially as I plan to migrate over to Linux eventually.
Lol, sucker.
Pretty much all of my 3D and editing software is free opensource. The only thing missing is a good tool like Substance Painter. I know we can make materials in Blender but the Photoshop-like workflow that Substance painter comes with is just something i can't let go of. Maybe there is a tool that i should check out that i don't know about?
You have to be the lowest form of life to attack a free software company like blender
Agreed, f-ing clowns 🤡
It really is not that strange when the competition go subscription service and braking promises they gave in the marketing and stated openly in the purchase as something your buying to keep. Until for some reason when they want you to monthly pay for buggy broken software or remove your access to using software.
Really there are lower levels from here. The strange and unusual part is the good people making and supporting free software. Only kind of software actually worth paying for funny enough.
autodesk did
probably an Israeli
Or pay for some hackers...
if there was no Blender, i would be doing boring ass coding to get some money, in a boring office.
Thanks to blender, im now somewhat artist, doing cool 3d stuffs, meeting cool talented artists and more.
What im trying to say is, Blender gave me new purpose in life. This software changed my life. so wish only the best for Blender
I'm mainly a coder but I'm also a visual artist and designer as well as animator.
And it's all thanks to Blender. Sure making visuals is much more fun but being able to painstakingly bring that to life is even more fun when it works.
coding is not boring!
and you would be earning more money :P
@@TheBeLuvdTRex yes it is
@@TheBeLuvdTRexcoding isn’t boring, but there is a lot of boring coding work
I ran into this at DDoS attack. I was like, "who in the hell would do this to Blender?" Seriously, people really disappoint me at times.
autodesk, (less possibly) zmodeler. While zmodeler isn't expensive, autodesk have 2 3d modelling softwares that costs thousands of dollars (not as one time payment), and people prefer free blender instead of their 1k+ usd maya or 3ds max
this is why we can't have nice things.
i COULD understand if it where like a shitty service or a bad game. but blender is genuently the most wholesome thing on earth. sad to see
Competition.
Money's the reason, always
They need to launch a criminal investigation if they haven't already. Blender is an important asset to many and the only people who have the motivations to do something like that are competing corperations.
Good point.
True.
I just want indie games and AA games to take over the entire triple AAA industry.
You nailed it.
There are not that many competitors. There are like 3 or 4 corporations that would benefit from taking blender down.
@@Win-rz8kp Uh-oh, that's not a good sign to Blender!🥶
Should we boycott 3 or 4 corporations?
Also, stay strong, Blender!💪
Incredible software. I will continue to support it as long as it continues development.
It might be good to start archiving the source code if another attack happens, that way development can continue forever more.
If Blender stopped development, you stopped supporting it.
If Blender doesn't ever stop, you live forever.
I have been supporting Blender for several years through the blender studio. After this message: now more than ever - Blender has brought me a lot and made a lot possible. - This is a translation from German, because I‘m not a native in English 😊
Danke
I mean it's a good translation, I've seen native English speaker that speak worse than that.
Hi can you teach me some german
Ishlemidish
@@elvissawe4533 what do you mean? „ich liebe dich“ = „I love you“?
@@danielsonderhoff5882 , das ist höchstwahrscheinlich ein Witz oder Trolling. 🙂
The a..desk joke was very good. Obviously and apparently the big corporations are upset that they can't get a piece of the pie. F....k them. Let's keep supporting Blender. The creator of blender along with the people who work alongside him deserve all the respect for what he has done and continues to do.
DECODED: "that was a joke. Please Autodesk don't sue me, I have no money"
Autodesk: "Did I stutter?"
Why would you attack blender? It's like hitting a baby. No no no. 😢
I know, right?
A competitor? Seems likely someone was willing to spend the money.. 🤔
@@BoltRM I doubt a competitor would be stupid enough to pull a stunt like this. But I honestly have no idea who it could be.
someone pushing some malware infected build? Leave blender alone motherf*****s!
There's some speculation that it was done to make people look for other ways and places to download blender, and then find versions with malicious code put there by the person(s) behind the attack. A trojan to create a larger botnet, perhaps for extortion, or for hidden cryptomining. Who knows?
Given the renewed push to squeeze money out of the internet again (Unity, UA-cam, Reddit, etc), I totally believe there is some back channel shenanigans by some big tech company to knock Blender out.
Big tech wants the age of freeware and open source to end. Everything will be a subscription, stuffed with ads and hidden fees, unless we stop them. Donate what you WOULD have paid for subscriptions to Blender and Adblock instead.
"You will own nothing and you will be happy!"
-Every misanthrope ever when he sees people having fun.
What they don’t know is this just makes us support Blender even more. I will never ever support Autodesk again even if they didn’t have anything to do with it which I honestly believe they did.
blender community need to know about stuff like this , thx
Using Blender over Steam is really convenient because of the auto-updates.
You are not alone, brother. There are literally dozens of us.
I forgot about Blender being available there! Are the updates relatively in-sync with the main website?
@@Digitalfiendscom Yeah pretty much. Maybe a few hours late
@@Digitalfiendscom yes
Many people are not using auto-updates. They need "fixed" version - if version works, is familiar and integrated into their workflow, the last thing they need it update changing ANYTHING. Switching versions only occurs during workflow updates when the current projects are finished.
Blender has given me purpose in life in terms of career goals. If you go after Blender, I go after you! 😅
💪
How does Blender help with your career?
@@aanimal1Don't be an animal.
@@aanimal1Get out of here.
Look. I was trying to seek inspiration here. Maybe i sounded like as if i am a hater, but im not.
Please whoever is doing these attacks stop. Please don't ruin Blender. It is one of the nicest gems and things we have in this world... and for free. It allows people like me that do not have much money to do something super enjoyable and it is free. It is an awesome hobby and software to have. Please don't ruin something so awesome as Blender ☹. Let people have nice things please. Without Blender my 3D hobby stuff would possibly have died years ago, at some point I guess I would had needed to let go of my dreams. Blender allowed me to keep doing what I love, and I am sure for many others too. Please don't ruin Blender, don't go down in history like that, c'mon.
Don’t appeal to their conscience as they don’t have one.
It more than likely is a big corporate 3d competitor.
The ddos attackers got tired of people not wasting money on maya so they attacked blender!
@@GunGunAnimatedI'm not saying one should or shouldn't use cracked software, but it is possible to run Autodesk softwares for free. You just have to look for the "how to's" and get it to work. Almost all payed software has a crack these days.
Attacking blender makes us sure it's a good product, else they won't care
Whoever attacked Blender: YOU SUCK
it's time to support the open source model. I believe blender has been doing it right for the longest time. We need more successful open source packages to be supported by us consumers so others will be more ready and willing to accept it as a model. Monopolizing software especially behind subscription services and saying that it's the only way needs to stop, and protecting blender at all costs seems like a good square one.
open source model is actually that steals everything. if you canty figure it out, you are possesed
Perhaps they did this on purpose to distribute the infected version of Blender to other mirrors, just at a time of high demand for this software.
That's quite possible.
Looks like the bakery industry finally fought back against the doughnut slurs.
This is why I feel the need to archive source codes all the time
Blender isn't going anywhere soon. Rest easy!
It would seem there are some people who feel threatened by blender, just show how great this software really is.
I'm not suggesting this guy had anything to do with it, but 5 years ago I was working on the voice recordings of an animated film. The director was a rather bitter fellow who'd graduated with a degree in animation just in time for The Animation Renaissance of The 1990s and is career was off to a good start. Then 3-D animation took over, he rejected it, and his career spiraled until he finally relented. During one of the recording sessions I think maybe someone asked about the software the studio was using, I don't recall, but for certain nobody had mentioned Blender. He suddenly went into a rant about how terrible Blender is and how people who use Blender have no idea what they're doing, and one of the reasons he kept stating for why Blender was so bad was because it was free. I think this was just before the release of 2.8 so Blender was still in its older stage, quite different than the program we know today, and certainly as a feature-rich, but he obviously felt threatened by it enough to suddenly pull it out of thin air to launch into diatribe on its evil effect on the world.
Considering that idiot, who was working for a very large studio, was harbouring such hatred for Blender even back then, and his speech sounded like one which he had said and possibly heard several times before that, I can easily imagine that some vested interests are now feeling genuinely threatened.
No one can stop Blender,
The Power Of Blender Community, You & me...
Not even corporations like Autodesk
As a cybersecurity professional. It’s not uncommon for a competitor to pay a hacker to do this type of attack. Especially if blender has any data theft as well
I was so upset with the early release of 4.0, I demanded my money back.
Thankfully, you can get a full refund at any time.
You paid infinity x $0 too? I hope you got your non-money back.
I just paid for my upgrade too. 😠
What money, for what?
@@sinisazec2799 ikr, since when did you pay for blender? These people are just lying
Everyone joking, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it really was a major competitor like autodesk!
For real. It's not as if nobody has ever heard of corporate espionage.
This was the comment I was looking for...
Yeah and Light Linking is a huge update. this feature alone separated Maya from blender. Now Blender has it and we get a huge DDOS attack, Something seems off.
2:14 i applaud you for it being sarcasm and not as I initially thought, u really saying "its justt free software, nobody would have any motives to see them gone" it's nice and refreshing to see someone who isn't crawling into big corpos doodoo hole.
This shows that Blender is doing everything right and that the others see Blender as a strong competitor!!!! go go go Blender team
Poor little auto desk getting jealous that a kitchen machine is growing more popular and stronger than their spoon
A U T O D E S K !
See! I'm not the only one who suspects them.
Lucky me, I just renewed my whole OS and all the programs on it yesterday. Blender downloaded and installed just fine.
Since I'm here, I was giggling the whole lenght of your video because first thing I spotted was the spray can of WD40 on your desk.
It's funny and I don't even know why.
I laughed out loud at the joke. I was thinking the same thing 😂
If you want stable software, it is usually not wise to download a x.0.0 version, because when software is first released it will suddenly get tested in many, many more configurations and use cases than can possibly be tested by the development team itself.
Props to the team for being so quick to fix the issues!
Oh so that's why about a week ago when I tried to access the Blender website, it had the longest waiting times ever...
There's a scene in The Simpsons when Hans Moleman is demonstrating his system for free energy at a convention. Coal Board goons ask him if it works and when he says yes the curtains are drawn followed by sounds of smashing.
I am new to Blender and after trying version 4 I tried to download an older version because one addon was not working well so I noticed this problem with the website, it seemed quite strange but I assumed that there was a lot of demand for the latest version, luckily I checked my browsers history and noticed that the installation file was on another website, so I just checked and found the version I needed.
I never thought it could be an attack.
What's the addon out of curiosity?
@@Zekium An importer/exporter for Doom3 models in md5 format, it is called io_scene_md5_28.py
The recomended version is 2.80 but it works fine with 3.6.5 too.
Very informative... Thanks for taking the time to report...
it's probably Adobe
all jokes aside it's wild how ghetto 90's software is a monthly subscription while a powerful engine like Blender is free..
"Please don't sue me, I have no money...." is the exact reason they will sue you.
There is nothing they could sue Blender for.
Oh and by the way sir, thanks for such great content and a video like this is very valuable under the circumstances.
That Autodesk joke made me spit my tea all over the screen :D
I only use Blender every now and then, yet I was lucky enough to check for an update right between the 2 waves of attacks, so the download went smoothly for me. I learned about it from the website and asked myself the same question as anybody: who the F would want to attack a website hosting a free and open-source software? Feels like a very unprofessional attack (of someone who doesn't even know what they're attacking?), or the exact opposite (a company that would benefit from taking them down?). I'm leaning on the former, a rival company would not have let go so easily. Chances are they started the attack and changed their mind after realizing what Blender is. What kind of data were they hoping to collect here? Makes no sense to me.
This just proves how Blender big is. When Blender been not that big, attackers not been cares.
good on you for this, it's baffling that anyone would do this to an open source site, it's just moronic, twitter yes but Blender no! good that they have moved hosting to Cloudfare who can counteract this DDOS attack. and props to Blender for acting swiftly and also swiftly on the bugs, that's a first in a long time that it released with such a serous bug, people need to make sure they are reporting them straight away. i too laughingly thought about the Autodesk joke among others, but this is just definitely some coordinated nonsense by script kiddies clearly! fingers crossed no further attacks, it's disappointing and childish where blender is target. Keep up the great work you do and your engagement!
Was about to comment "Autodesk" right as your bit came up ^^
awesome, you're a geordie!
VM's (sandbox) for the latest release of almost all opensource software. While running the last stable version in the 'production' environment is always a great move. To many years of picking up the pieces of others broken environments.
I'm betting it's the same guys who were selling it for $35 on a scam web site.
Thank you for the update. At this stage I see no reason to be concerned about the attacks on Blender. I would be surprised if this has any significant affect on the Blender community.
We need to support blender fully! i cant believe commercial software companies are so evil
Tbh it could have just be the 4.0 was very hyped and alot of people essential ddosed it by simply using it. Though based on the comments it seems a paid service is trying to weed out the competition, which for how far blender has reached and just how actually effective it is, I find it unlikely any real damage will be done, ever. Blender did a really good thing to be free through steam, a very big, and regulated downloader, able to keep blender safe
Yesterday I downloaded version 4.0.1 and tested it a little on rendering speed in Cycles. Version 3.6 - 2min 53sec on average, versus 4.0 - 3min 9sec, on the GPU. And in tandem with the CPU, on version 3.6 the increase is 3-5 seconds, but with version 4.0 there is no increase at all.
PS. Translation via Google translator.
Thanks for updating us. If it weren't for Blender I wouldn't be able to hobby 3D and make cool motion graphics...I mean the other guys charge monthly fees that add up to several hundred per year.
Actually this attack was over due.With how good blender is getting and the amount of things it offers, is bound to be costing a lot of money to the competition.
As a former hater of Blender, now being a massive supporter of the software, I truly am excited to be working on the latest release and I’m loving it.
“There’s the Windows Store God forbid” 😂😂😂
We can't forget, there is a new donut tutorial out. Those denial of services, may actually be legit requests.
"That was a joke Autodesk .. please don't sue me .. I have no money" ... lol
Thank god we don't get a wave of BLIZZARD UNDER ATTACK every other day when their servers get ddos attacked.
And this is how Blender 4.0 became a collector's item 🙂
Strange thing, thank you for your information. Although I didn't recognize those problems. I am using version 3.5.1 from steam.
Thanks for posting about this warning on the newest version of Blender. I right now only have been working on 4.0. I hope things get straigened out for them soon. I'll just be sticking with my 4.0 for now until things get straightened out.
I've recommended grabbing 4.01. It's identical to 4.0 but with a few serious bug fixes.
I have found that some addons don't work in 4.0.0, but do work in 4.0.1
Makes you wonder if the software providers that charge for their products are hiring hackers to disrupt the freeware providers. Granted companies should be allowed to make a profit for their products, but some do serious price gouging.
It’s a great app. Don’t quit guys.
It makes zero sense that Autodesk would do this. It's risky, ineffective, and only generates more support for Blender. Considering the harmlessness of the target (Blender), I wonder if some hackers just got bored.
theres nothing in this world as evil, petty and dangrous as a corporation looking its next quick buck
@@ehtresih9540 Maybe, but they would also have to be incredibly stupid. We're talking about a multi-billion dollar software company. They can't possibly believe that a DDoS attack on an open-source tool would accomplish anything useful. Huge risk to Autodesk if they got caught, and little to no effect on Blender. It doesn't add up.
It's cute that all these kids think it takes a massive corporation to launch a DDoS attack.
@Broskisnowski Because they make millions by charging thousands of years for buggy software. Why would they?
And let's not pretend Blender is some amazing, well polished piece of software that never crashes.
@@mechadeka If Blender crashes, that is rare in compare to Autodesks software. And yes, Blender have bugs too but much less - and Blender is not charging from you for bugs. Blender is amazing in compared to 3DS MAX and MAYA, because in Blender you can do much more - plus updates are more frequent and software is more stable.
I mean, now I know that blender 4 was released, I didn't know that before. So... this attack had a positive impact at least on me hah.
o man the envy is in the air xD. I think autodesk is mad jeje
Sons of Levi are at it again!
Those alternate downloads you're talking about can be the reason behind the attack. Scheme is simple: Pick a popular software that just had a major release. Create your own version infected with malware. Put it up for download. Block original source with DDoS attack. Watch thousands of unsuspecting people download and install your malware. So ... be careful about that.
That's insane that someone been attacking it, Blender is a good program but if they dont hate it, a user would just use other things. I can see a company might try to do this tho, but it strange in general on being attacked like this... I hope Blender attacks ended and things can go back to normal.
Btw I am 2k like, the 1k change to 2k on me and I feel amazing cause of it. I never had this happen to me from liking a video, amazing. ^ ^
The latest 3d software launch close to Blender 4.0 was Cinema 4D 2024 (two month ago). Just FYI, I repeat purely unrelated
Lmao ! "Please don't sue me Autodesk I have no money"
you have my like on "Dont sue me, I have no money!!" :D :D :D
100% has to be competition doing this
Looks like the bigwigs are allegedly starting to get salty about Blender.
This just motivates foss developers contribute to the Blender repository
Yep... was about to say Autodesk, but my fellow brothers already mentioned it. 😅
I have just downloaded 4.0, worked fine. Everything I needed to do worked as well.
_me, who installed it from Steam the whole time:_ I didn't notice anything
I can't figure out why someone would spend the time and effort ddosing blender, unless maybe they had their own malware ridden versions they were trying to get people to download, when they couldn't get the real deal. Either that, or there's some really petty jerk out there that really needs a life.
Attack was very important! I Wanted to learn who behind this!
This only makes me want to use Blender more
Oh! That's why my blender yesterday glitched and I had to delete all add-ons config files to make it work again.😂
Autodesk ando maxon behind of attack
Autodesk and Foundry going after the competition lol
I noticed this about 3 days ago.
Blender is here to stay.
With a half decent network operation department it’s relatively easy to block a DDOS attack, it’s not an effective means of attack in the long run. Blender has nothing to worry about.
Its well known for large companies to attack smaller ones in the past. (not saying anyone of them did it) That being said I switched from AD because they stiffed me and others out of XSI. I spent a great deal on the licensing and their PR people lied about canceling it. AD's acquiring XSI then canceling cost them a lot of customers. Many of them switched to Blender as a result.
I'm keeping my blender air-gapped
Heaven's forbid that it gets hacked and I can't have my morning smoothie 🥛
I use blender on steam, but I was talking to some people about blender and we wanted to visit the site to read information about the development team, and sure enough the site didn’t load and we were all confused lol.
Autodesk and Maxon teaming up lol
Are they really attacking a revolutionary free software?!?!?! What low form of life, they are...💔
They down side of this is they pay for spam attack which cost money. Like those site those cost money to maintain the server cost if database limited is reach and need to pay extra.
Other than financial gain, I cannot think why anyone would attack a free software foundation.
to attack souch a butifal software should lead one straight to extra hell
Obviously competing software companies are behind this, who else would do this