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Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates

Posted by samzenpus on from the roll-for-initiative dept.

thelostagency writes "Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software says his company is being hired by the film industry to attack online pirates. He says if a provider did not do anything to remove the link or content hosted on its site, his company would launch what is known as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the offending computer server. From the article: 'Kumar said that at the moment most of the payment for his company's services came from the film industry in India. "We are tied up with more than 30 companies in Bollywood. They are the major production houses." As for Hollywood films, he said they, too, used his services.'"

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  1. Re:Er, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This should be HIGHLY illegal. This is vigilantism, plain and simple, and is completely illegal and immoral.

    Let me get this straight. Stealing shit left and right is okay but stopping people from stealing shit is completely illegal and immoral. Hypocrisy, meet you. You, meet hypocrisy.

    People wouldn't need to resort to completely illegal and immoral tactics if the offenders, to which they are absolutely forced to respond, were the least bit legal and morale in the first place. Its like complaining someone was murdered because they broke into a house. Simple solution - stop breaking into houses dummy, and then you don't have to worry about the, actions which are completely illegal and immoral, which follows.

  2. Re:Er, by spazzmo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Moron. Copyright infringement is not stealing.

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