Having (foolishly) clicked the Twitter link and looking at a tweet he made on the 8th February, its safe to blame the parents. A classic rant with all the hallmarks we've come to expect these days: stuck caps lock, swearing and no punctuation.
I'd read months ago that any stock left of the SH 2ac devices had long since been depleted. VM was giving them out to dissatisfied SH3 gamers etc because of the latency problems.
A shame as the workaround is to keep rebooting it every week is annoying.