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  Well the rationale is that they were announcing live to the world (and therefore also the website owner) that "all your base are belong to us". So instead of giving the website owner time to fix their flawed IT security they just deleted all the infected systems at the end of the talk (including some backups and admin accounts).

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  Well that's probably true. I mean lots of stuff was obviously hacked and deleted, and if you trust the script output in the stream mostly from whitedate. child and deal are later off-shoots it seems, but date had like 6k users, some paying, the main project basically. And it's still offline. And whitedeal shows a 2019 copyright notice. :D There was an interactive map of the user profiles hosted by the hacker at https://okstupid.lol/ but it seems to be down right now. And the journalists...

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  Could be the site owner is in the process of restoring access, the talk (and thus the deletion) happened on 29th of December.

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  Are they? For me the website has a Cloudflare captcha leading into a 404: https://whitedate.net/ After the talk it had a rick-roll embed for some time. :D

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  Man fuck Axel Voss! Damn copyright shill. Guess we can take solace in the fact that he seemed to be the only one clearly taking the publishers side here. And if I'm not mistaken, the European Commission representative argued in his reply to Voss (around 12:20) that "collective management organisations" or "cultural heritage institutions" might well be allowed to preserve games that are not commercially available anymore already under the current framework.