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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. Well by iONiUM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:And now... by Jester998 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re:What's with Aiplex? by Will.Woodhull · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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    Will