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DDoS From 4chan Hits MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website
ACKyushu writes "Say what you like about 4chan; when they want something done, it gets done. Following a call to arms yesterday, the masses inhabiting the anonymous 4chan boards have carried out a huge assault on a pair of anti-piracy enemies. The website of Aiplex Software, the anti-piracy outfit which has been DDoSing torrent sites recently, fell victim to a DDoS itself. They were joined in the Internet wasteland by the MPAA's website, which also fell to a huge and sustained attack."
Let the slashdotting commence!
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Or I'm getting aroused thinking of this.
Oh noes their website went down for a few hours, that's sure to stop all of their operations! Or not...
I think neither the MPAA nor Aiplex really care about about their websites getting knocked down; if anything, it gives them more publicity and lets them generate additional FUD about the dreaded "pirates". If anonymous members can't target more essential parts of their business with their attacks, they shouldn't bother.
You just told the powers in the world to stop fucking around on the Internet and to start fucking around with jackbooted thugs knocking down doors.
I feel so much safer now.
nice work.
At the very least, this should show the MPAA that no matter what kind of resources they have, 4Chan can muster the same or more. I mean, obviously this didn't have any short or long term effect other than someone probably saying "oh, our websites are down." But ya, if they are capable of this (with sheer numbers), they could be capable of more.
Basically I'm for anything that scares the MPAA somewhat, or at least is a force fighting them, even if the "fighting" (in this case) is rather pointless and somewhat childish.
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
In schoolboy terms "they started it!"
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Anyone have a link to the affected sites... :
Like 4channers ddosing wasn't already enough. Now the sites will suffer from the slashdot effect as well. Not that all this matters to me. I feel bad for the admins as they will get all the trouble and chaos. Ddosers likely think that they are attacking the big corporate giants but instead it's just the network admins who get all the shit and still desperately try to keep the sites up.
wouldn't it be more efficient to target Aiplex's and MPAA's gateway so that workers would have difficulty to "work"? If they don't use their own websites, they might have not noticed at all.
>Dislike Internet Vigilantism /b/ you so crazy.
>Become an Internet Vigilante
Oh
The problem is collateral damage. Legitimate actors can't get into the DDoS game, because if they legitimize DDoS, the network will *fry*.
The "good guys" cannot flood nearly as significantly as the bad guys. Worse, the good guys are significantly more exposed -- they have corpnets, they have partner nets, etc. Today it's the website, tomorrow it's Hulu.
There are paths on which the anti-piracy people have the high ground (not moral high ground, tactical high ground). DDoS, in no uncertain terms, is not one of them.
...gigabytes of packets to you. lulz
Does anyone know a good DDoS software that runs on Linux? The mono port of LOIC is awful.
I wouldn't call the MPAA "Anti-Piracy."
THEY would call themselves "anti-piracy" but they actually lobby for legislation that gives them control over content beyond what copyright law allows, in order to reap greater profits. They also try to lock down and control content delivery mechanisms and channels in order to maintain a monopoly.
Not really an "anti-piracy" group.
Payback's a bitch.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
What the hell is the point of DDOSing a company on a weekend? All the people who deserve it are out at their summer houses throwing their last party of the season. The only person who'll actually care is the poor networking flunky who has to come in on his day off or risk being fired.
The only winners in an arms race are the arms dealers. In this case, that'd be bandwidth providers, security specialists, anybody who "helps" you in your attempt to win the fight.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
A casual trip through 4chan's boards found an interesting tidbit. They are planning another assault, on the RIAA now. It is planned for Sunday. Finding the details on 4chans boards should be trivial for any slashdotter. Just trying to be informative.
Interesting seems like 200+ people are in a chatroom coordinating this right now.
http://pastehtml.com/view/1b3tqp1.html
quoted from 'aiplex':
Solution
To eradicate piracy at its best possible, we strategically follow some of the best practices outlined below;
Finding the links of the unauthorized content using appropriate software which co-relates the copyright / licensed material in any given format.
Our 24/7 net vigilance agents & customer support team will have a rigorous check on video sharing communities and perform regular scrutiny for copyright deviation.
A list of leading 159 video sharing communities where videos in any forms are uploaded will be on a rigorous check for any new uploads.
We shall approach the service provider with the authenticated links of the pirated products being uploaded & appeal them to remove the content/file by issuing legal notice / request letter for violation of copyrights.
Our 24/7 support team would also prevent the damage by issuing instant legal notices to the service provider & block the account for deviating copy right laws.
wtf?? I mean, they seem like kids or something. not very good english for an 'official' net-sheriff (oops, that was another clown on teh intertubes, pardon me).
I'm not impressed. sorry.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
I wish I could mobilize 4chan dwellers and /b/tards in particular to go out and vote for their national Pirate Party come election time, but it appears the vast majority haven't reached the age of maturity yet...
Unless 4chan is trying to track down a cat abuser or troll children, slashdot users flocking to the links will probably do more damage than 4chan could.
I guess someone asked 4chan to "please do the needful" to Aiplex and the MAFIAA...
http://www.aiplex.com/registration.html
http://www.mpaa.org/search/policy
are up now. and fast for me in BC. cloud scaling? It may be that they are paying to keep the sites up with extra bandwidth. This actually would impact their bottom line instead of just being a nuisance the way normal DDOS (take down) would be.
Stupidity is its own reward.
"It's truly bizarre in my mind"
But not at all bizarre outside your mind. Which means your mind is probably bizarre.
Nontheless, I'll grant you that there are aspects of your mind that are not bizarre (you seem to be able to form complete sentences), but the rest is fairly broken, and not producing much that is either sensible or credible. Either that or you are simply trolling. But the way you do it is so strange, twisted, and just ....odd... that its hard to determine if there is an element of some physical injury to the reasoning center in your mind? That seems so terrible for you to know that your bizarre thoughts are caused by a physical injury and that you fully understand the implications of what its doing to your bizarre mind.
while [[ 1 ]]; do curl http://www.mpaa.org/ >/dev/null; done
Am I the only one who doesn't see how Medical Transcription intersects in any way with SEO and Anti-piracy?
Also, I'm saving this blurb from their front page as one of the best, most generic examples of corporate-speak ever:
<Insert Company Name Here> has a blend of technology savvy & process driven dedicated team bringing about a paradigm shift in rendering customized solutions to its clients. We have steadily grown in reach and service offerings with a favorable cost-benefit ratio & keeping pace with the emerging business needs of our customers.
I don't believe that this was 4chan. I lurk 4chan pretty regularly and haven't seen anything about this - not calls to raid or anything. There isn't anything on the insurgency wiki and I can't find anything on ED. Also 4chan's DDOS's aren't generally sustained, usually they only last a couple of hours before people get bored. I suspect that something else is at play here.
Posting anonymously because I don't want people to be able to know that I lurk 4chan.
Dammit, I wan'na see a Starship powered by a 4Chan engine!!
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What Anonymous didn't mention was that their entire plan was nothing more than to create a press release in order to unleash the largest botnet on earth: Slashdot.
Ok, if you want me to. They're scum of the earth. The kind of people able to do mass murder if they ever find themselves in a war.
That's what I think of 4chan. They're demented.
I may be an anonymous coward, but so are they for the most part.
This was all done in celebration of the International Talk Like A Pirate Day
The people who use 4chan don't all do this type of thing. It seems more like someone would suggest something and various people there would anonymously opt in, others would complain about the merits of such a thing, others would ignore or report it etc, and to claim it is supported by 4chan isn't right - the users comments are their own, not those of 4chan owners.
Two wrongs, in special cases, can make a right (if they cancel each other properly).
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1999-02-07/
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
guess who wins.
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You have to use dementia to fight the demented some times: no different than funneling a caustic explosion own a tube.
Welcome to the Inter-Blagosphere-Tubenets: put your soap on a rope so you don't drop it on the floor.
It isn't 4Chan doing this. There has been a large vocal journalism crowd in bed with FCC &US Government to shut-down Poole's innocen BBS. Even all the illegal and "CP" content on the boards is by government employees trolling everyone. Much of the most incideous content is only available to the prsecuting attornes that have such in their evidence repositories. No different than COPS walking home leaving the drugbox with something to throw onto the Homeless and Jobless people he's been wanting to get off the streets. 4Chan is just that: a unch of free/homeless/jobless whose website isn't controlled by anyone that favors government.
Mine's more betterer!
#! /bin/sh
COUNTER=1 /dev/null "$1"
while [ $COUNTER -gt 0 ]; do
echo "\n=====Attempt $COUNTER=====\n"
wget -t 5 -w 0 --no-cookies -O
COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+1))
done
Save, make executable, and it attacks whatever site you pass it until you stop it, for instance "./dosattack www.mpaa.org"
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Seems that the 'Pirates' web sites that were earlier DDos attacked by MPAA members web sites were in turn counter attacked. Shades of "sew the wind, reap the whirlwind"? From my perspective this battle is heating up in exactly the wrong direction and may spread beyond what both factions may have expected of desire. The whole tit-for-tat attitude is not going to solve the precieved problems of either... It also seems relatively evident that if the MPAA and it's members websites had taken proper and available security precautions to protect their Intellectual property in the first place the "Pirates" would have been thwarted long ago now...
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Pete Townsend wrote it, Roger Daltry sang it, and both of those geezers are still around!
Um, shouldn't that be "assault on a pair of _piracy_ enemies? I'm just saying.
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They are the most pathetic losers there are on the web.
They all think they are badass.
Nothing but a bunch of packet kiddies and noobs.
Bring your worst... Im not scared...
LOSERS!
In the virtual world? Yes
Now, imagine if they had posted the street and postal addresses of the organisations...
eg: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Spam_King_Inundated_By_Junk_Mail_Fails_To_See_The_Irony/
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