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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."
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.
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.
Well, that's rather interesting... when I went to the mpaa.org site, it immediately got stopped by NoScript; it was trying to redirect me to a URL in the form www.mpaa.org/my.ip.add.ress
Put on your tinfoil hats, everyone.
The MPAA site works for me, rather well, and it seems like a high-bandwidth site, too. I'm in Finland, if that's of interest.
So, it seems MPAA recovered and/or the DDoS is over already.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
... interesting...
can anyone else confirm that going to:
www.mpaa.org/127.0.0.1
seems to result in an infinite redirect for them?
I've always loved those commercials; that guy and everyone else on the regular staff got a paycheck for their work long before the movie came out. If they actually made a percentage of the film's profits, which I guarantee none of them do, then they'd have a right to complain. I guess the point I'm trying to make is moot since that guy wasn't really a carpenter anyway, but an actor.
Actually their involvement in medical transcription rather bothers me. Much of medical transcription in the USA is now outsourced to India. If companies like this one exhibit ethically questionable behavior in regards to one aspect of communications, can they be trusted to properly handle the sensitive identity and health care information that is at the core of medical transcription? There is no assurance that these greaseballs who admit to deliberately corrupting portions of the Internet are not doing things like compiling lists of patients with terminal diagnoses to sell to funeral homes so the undertakers can use targeted marketing techniques more effectively....
I'd like to see some USA Federal or State Attorney General do some investigation about whether there may be criminal activity, or the potential for that, here.
Will
Hmm, probably they try to get the real IPs of proxy users ...
You must be new here.
I had my ports scanned several minutes after I visited MPAA site (and told NoScript to allow the script to run). It's not something that happens to me everyday, in fact, I recall only a few other detected port scans this year. And a few minutes after that, I logged another port scan. The IP addresses were 221.195.73.68 and 216.34.181.51 but I don't think they are real somehow.