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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."
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.
Are you really this STUPID? Can 4chan muster hordes of lawyers and effectively lobby congress? Anonymous is far too shortsighted to have any kind of lasting impact here. You're apparently one of them. A DDoS that brings their site down is nothing. It gives them more ammo to use against piracy when they lobby congress. 4chan isn't capable of more. They're rarely capable of anything in the real world, and that's where the RIAA and MPAA are hurting people.
This is nothing. This is a "moral" victory for idiots who need to feel important online because they don't know how to do that in the real world.
That's the beauty of corporations. You can never trouble them with protests. You merely trouble their employees. Likewise, you cannot imprison them, for they do not actually exist.
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.
Your IP address is exposed with every tcp connection you make and (by default in most web servers) logged with every http request you make.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
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"?
"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."
The servant of an enemy is still an enemy.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
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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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...
I notice that the MPAA site has a "Report Piracy" form at http://www.mpaa.org/contentprotection/report-piracy.
As a member of the society that has granted copyright holders their limited, temporarily monopolistic usage rights, I am at this moment reporting the misappropriation of the terms "theft", "ownership" and "property" with respect to these rights and the content they cover. (They are violations because copyright is a social contract between creators of intellectual property and society, and any contract has two sides. The MPAA et al are violating their side of the contract.) I discovered these violations on their very website! Anyone else want to complain?
Yes, and when you vote with your wallet and refuse to buy the products of some corporation which you don't like - guess what, the people who get all the trouble (of a lower figure on their paychecks, or possibly even being laid off) are its employees! O horror!
I honestly don't understand where this line is coming from. I work for a large and rather unpopular (around here, anyway) corporation. As such, I fully expect the flak it may receive from disgruntled customers - should there be enough of it - to be reflected on my paycheck, bonuses etc. After all, impressive profits that it makes every quarter are most certainly reflected that way, so that would only be fair. A share is fair when it's of everything that goes in, whether gold or shit.
Same for MPAA admins. I've no idea if it's a high-paying job or not, but either way, the money they get doesn't materialize out of thin air - it is a result of MPAA business, and, more specifically, the business decisions that it makes. If one feels comfortable using such a pay source as a means of supporting themselves, they should also accept the strings attached to that paycheck.
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