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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."

3 of 318 comments (clear)

  1. Re:counterproductive by rotide · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your mistake is in thinking that anonymous does anything for rational reasons or for anyones benefit. It's merely mob mentality and they do it for kicks.

  2. Re:And now... by nmb3000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seeing as the Slashdot editor/submitter were too lame to include links themselves, I'll give you all a hand at, um, investigating these fine websites.

    Aiplex
    MPAA

    I actually didn't think the Aiplex site was correct at first, just because of how awful it is. Maybe they got into the "anti-piracy" business because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.

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    "What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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  3. Re:counterproductive by SheeEttin · · Score: 5, Informative

    they do it for kicks

    You misspelled "the lulz".