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DDoS From 4chan Hits MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website

Posted by Soulskill on from the wonder-how-much-piracy-went-unaddressed-while-they-were-down dept.

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."

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  1. And now... by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let the slashdotting commence!

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    1. Re:And now... by glavenoid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh the irony.

      Wait, this is irony, isn't it?

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    2. Re:And now... by catmistake · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.

      Great websites aren't designed. They are incepted.
      truly nice post, btw

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    3. Re:And now... by HawaiianToast · · Score: 5, Funny

      FYI, Your links don't work. I've tried several times now...

    4. Re:And now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Same here. And a lookup on my.ip.add.ress didn't give anything useful.

      I think it is a highly suspectable event.

    5. Re:And now... by Jurily · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's the only way they know to log it.

    6. Re:And now... by martinux · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've tried several times now...

      Forty-seven million times?

    7. Re:And now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      FYI, Your links don't work. I've tried several times now...

      Keep trying!

    8. Re:And now... by Goaway · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's so cute when people think Slashdot could still actually Slashdot anything.

    9. Re:And now... by russotto · · Score: 4, Funny

      Technical people seem to think that their beliefs are correct and everyone else is wrong far more often than other professional classes.

      Why would one hold a belief that one did not believe was correct?

      Anonymous is just an expression of that. They believe they are right and are justified in attacking others based on their belief.

      Right. When Aiplex and the MPAA attack sites and people, that's OK. If some group attacks them in return, it's akin to terrorism.

    10. Re:And now... by Voyager529 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Fail at web server administration.

      At least their success rate is consistent.

    11. Re:And now... by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 2, Funny

      I know proxies work differently, but I just pictured the MPAA server admins reading the logs and going "OMFG the attacks are all coming from 10.10.0.0/16 and 192.168.1.0/24. We are being attacked from within!!!!"

    12. Re:And now... by sznupi · · Score: 2, Funny

      PS. Well, naturally there is also tpb & eztv...

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    13. Re:And now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I notice that the MPAA site has a "Report Piracy" form

      I've reported Somalia to them severall times but ships still have problems going by there.

    14. Re:And now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      One of my friends told me I just don't understand irony. Which was ironic, because we were at a bus stop at the time.

    15. Re:And now... by flyneye · · Score: 3, Funny

      Television and movies worth bookmarking.
      Kleenex worth saving.
      Flies worth counting.
      Yugos worth restoring.
      Feces worth polishing.

                I suppose you can see where I'm going with this...

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  2. Matthew 26:52 by Gonoff · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!"

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  3. Re:DDoS Software by psergiu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you sure you're not blocked after 420 wgets ? :)

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  4. Re:counterproductive by hedwards · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's African American faxes, you insensitive clod.

  5. Re:DDoS Software by Runaway1956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    440 or 420? Hmmm. This is a very important question. One which I MUST research. Maybe we can get everyone on slashdot to test this?

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  6. Re:counterproductive by robot256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dare you to send a color fax.