How to RickRoll the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008

RickRolling – something people argued about since it was »invented«:

Some say it’s immature and childish, others think it’s damn funny. I’d number myself among the second group.

So I was hooked when I stumbled across a post in a german forum which was a request to help creating one of the biggest RickRolls in the world. Actually, this could be even bigger than the RickRoll Youtube did.

Basically, all you have to do is to visit http://ema.mtv.co.uk/vote/, scroll down, select »Best Act Ever« and enter »Rick Astley«. But that is way to complicated if you want to vote more than once (well, we have to make sure that Rick Astley becomes one of the nominees). So you can simply use this link to vote for him.

If you’re using a UNIX (e.g. Linux or BSD) and you really want to support this, you can open up a terminal and enter*:
while true ; do wget -O /dev/null 'http://ema.mtv.co.uk/vote/#!fields[category]=Best+Act+Ever&fields[artist]=Rick+Astley&action[suggestions]=Vote' ; done
This will vote for Rick endlessly (until you hit CTRL+C to abort).

* Don’t use the above command if you don’t have a »flatrate« (which is unmetered internet access, so you pay a monthly fee and it doesn’t matter how much you download).

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