Animal Jams Anti-Piracy Measure

Hello guys, I am really confused on what happened days ago. So basically, I like downloading Flash games like: Stinkoman 20X6, Interactive Buddy, Can Your Pet, Fleeing the Complex, The Impossible Game, and Happy Wheels. Though Stinkoman 20X6, and Happy Wheels were kinda hard to find, because most of the stuff are embedded with extra files. Other than that, the games work great for using it on the Adobe Flash Player Projector. When I was searching for other Flash games, I got: Club Penguin, and Animal Jam. Club Penguin died on 2017, so I couldn't play it. Though, there is a rewritten version of the game. I decided to download the game later.

Club Penguin and Animal Jam are actually multiplayer games, which is neat when you want to play with your friends. I decided to download all of the .swf's for Animal Jam. That actually took a long time. When I was done, I was actually excited because I can play a multiplayer game offline. Though, what I saw was really weird when I clicked on the main .swf file. It was only a video. When I played the video, it was just static. When the static went off, we see a jammer. Now I have heard in most games that if you owned a pirate copy of games, there will be a anti-piracy measure. Though, this was actually different. Instead of saying "you have a pirated version of the game" it said "help me". The video then ends. For some reason, this was deleting all of the Animal Jam files. All of the games files were deleting on my computer. I was actually confused. It then makes a file called "HELP ME". When I opened it up, it was a text file that reads "help me, [redacted computer name]". I was actually shocked. I went off of the computer for months.

Now I am at the library writing this story down so people will know what happened.

-James, 2018