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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. And now... by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let the slashdotting commence!

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    "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
    1. 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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    2. Re:And now... by HawaiianToast · · Score: 5, Funny

      FYI, Your links don't work. I've tried several times now...

    3. Re:And now... by Jurily · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's the only way they know to log it.

    4. Re:And now... by matthewv789 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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?

    5. Re:And now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      FYI, Your links don't work. I've tried several times now...

      Keep trying!

  2. 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.

  3. Re:counterproductive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    If 4chan manages to DDOS the official sites of the upcoming and just-out movies produced by MPAA members, they'll be hurt pretty badly. All of their ads, TV, web, printed, and so on, point to these sites.

    So DDOS van be a viable weapon, if that's how MPAA wants business done.

  4. Re:Well by DurendalMac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. Get out and vote... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

  6. Re:counterproductive by hedwards · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's African American faxes, you insensitive clod.

  7. Re:counterproductive by SheeEttin · · Score: 5, Informative

    they do it for kicks

    You misspelled "the lulz".