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Pirate Bay Founder Begs For Hacker Ceasefire

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the please-hammer-don't-hurt-'em dept.

Barence writes "Pirate Bay's co-founder has pleaded for hackers to stop attacking the sites of those organizations lined up against him. Peter Sunde is on trial with Pirate Bay's three other founders for allegedly distributing copyrighted material. The trial is about to enter its fourth day, and in a gesture of support for the four men hackers have begun assaulting plaintiff websites, beginning with that of the The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The campaign has caused concern in the Pirate Bay camp, prompting Sunde to write a post titled 'We're winning, stop hacking, please' on his blog."

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  1. Re:Good Christ.... by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Are you kidding me? One of the first people you blame is the opponents of file sharing? Get real - these are often the same folk who go to black hat conventions, and spend their spare time devising attacks on software - I think it's far more logical that people doing things like this are very much the fans of TPB.

    "Little stupid scriptkiddie somewhere that doesn't understand" is also a bit of a reach. All the more "mature" warez/sceners know far better than to do this kind of thing, right?

  2. ;-) it's a joke... by jonaskoelker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To whomever modded me flambait:

    Your irony counter is illegally parked not-on-slashdot. Please move it, or I'll have it towed in here ;-) ... I love Canadians, especially when on strike ;)