1) Is this cool? No, this was just a last possible measure.

2) If you’re a small PR firm/shop/agency, how do you deal with non-payment? I guess, you know the drill. Try not to pay your bills for a year. This was all in the contract.

3) Does this help or hurt the agency who’s doing this? It helped.

4) Does making specific named allegations help or hurt the people named, or is it more dangerous to the agency, as well? At this time we do not give a sh..t. We have tried all other possible options. That one worked.

5) Does anyone notice that there’s no mention of the agency that built this in the first place? We have not created (or managed) the site, we just hosted it at our facilities.

Personally I do not like when 40000 people and multi-billion dollars company is trying to screw 10 people company, since our survival depends on every pay check we are receiving. We are not hackers, we are tech guys who are trying to make a honest living. We used to be official vendors for many years. LG should be thankful, we have not disabled other LG web assets we are controlling. We have nothing much to loose, LG does, but I do not think our actions hurt reputation of LG much, it is not that great anyway.

I think it hurts everyone involved if you name names and make allegations. It looks spiteful and unprofessional (and even if you don’t sign your name people can find you if they want to badly enough.)

Would I have taken their site down in their position? Probably, or created a “this site is down until further notice due to technical difficulties” page. Would I have put the names of the offending corporate lazy-a$$es who are too cheap to pay their bills? Absolutely not. That’s the rub.