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Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates
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.'"
Exactly. This may slide in India, but MPAA is out of their league if they want to get into a tech battle.
Theft leaves someone without something. Use ur brain plz. kthx ;-)
This is assuming they are DOS'ing whitehats. I can see it now companies to DOS pirate sites, sites retaliate with thousands of botnets to take down the companies. Internet becomes utterly unusable because everyone just retaliates on everyone. Kind of reminds me of 911, US goes in and steals iraqs oil then acts all dumbfounded when they retaliated a few downed planes. 2 wrongs definately don't make a right, I agree with that, and if this company pisses off the wrong blackhat, they'll never have an internet presence again, its a catch22.
A. Courtney Love is a smack head and an idiot. B. Even if your view of corporations were true the idea of retaliating like-like is what cave-men moronic douche bags do.
Seriously, do if someone rapes your mother do you pay them back by raping their mother? It's been 11 years since the beginning of Napster and nothing has changed for the artist. So you're not helping, you're just being a tight-ass.
Courtney's ok because she has a side job that involves sucking dick for drugs. She doesn't have any other real expenditures after that.