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Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website
An anonymous reader writes "The latest DDoS attack from Anonymous has knocked offline UK solicitor Gallant Macmillian's website, the Ministry of Sound Website and their payment website. Macmillian is currently looking for several hundred identities of suspected file-sharers, accused of uploading artists under the Ministry of Sound label."
Goofus killed Gallant.
That UK actually has an official Ministry of Sound (as in, Govt. agency) ! :)
Paul B.
Next time point your blasters at Miniluv first. Now you get a happy fun trip to Room 101!
Hope this was what the terrorist attack US warned about yesterday. It seemed pretty restricted then.
Hey... that's a nice case you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Like... your documentation of child pornagraphy being used against you. It would be a damn shame being labeled a child molester by your neighborhood, even if you're acquited.
Sincerely, an Anonymous Prosecutor.
Ministry of Sound has been struggling a lot lately, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/21/ministry-of-sound-threat . They haven't really stayed relevant in the electronic music world lately, so it won't be a big loss to see them disappear in the near future irregardless of file sharers. As a music producer and dj here in Austin, I feel obligated to buy the music I play and remix (mainly because I'm friends with producers who've burned that unspoken respect into my style, Francis Preve, Josh Gabriel, etc.). When labels go out of their way to pursue file sharers, I feel obligated to go out of my way to find their tracks through non-conventional methods. Not everyone has money to dish out for music, but they will pay to go to shows, clubs, raves, etc. Let them appreciate the art! When was the last time Ministry of Sound put out a track that reached the top 10 charts on beatport.com ? When was the last time Toolroom Knights did? Music evolves, and it feels like they pressed the B button to hold themselves back on purpose.
- Aetheral Research -
Are there any laws governing what you can legally name your organization?
Can I register a corporation under the name "Federal government of the United States"?
The Ministry of Sound sounds like it could be an 80's rap group. Anyway, I would put money on them trying to identify and sue all the IPs DDOSing them.
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LOL
You have no case with what you just said.
Heheh... "Body of Evidence". So that's what they're calling it these days?
It's nice to see kids these days cooperating with each other to make the world a better place.
I notified the FBI that 4han was keeping CP on their servers and by way of that distributing it. 4chan received the threat of immediate shut down unless spam was removed and the chans were moderated.
LOL, you poor fool.
I'm with you on all points, but why are you so angry at Canada Post?!
From a purely digital pyromania perspective (I am not a participant in this, but I like to watch things burn) it would be much more fun if the internal networks and personal computers of these organizations where infiltrated (and counterattacks mounted by hired crackers, of course.) Why doesn't this happen? Would we ever know if it had? (I think we would, actually, as long as the attack was detected.) Is it a question of competence or cowardice? These ineffectual DDOS attacks are getting boring. ;_;
Emotions! In your brain!
I have a lot more respect for the Pirate Party than these Anonymous DDOS attacks. Though I guess I didn't mind too much when they turn-abouts-fair-played the one company awhile back. Ultimately though, resorting to the same tactics as RIAA or whatever other group doesn't help anybody and just makes the attempt to get lawmakers to see reason even more difficult. :-(
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4han... now with ewok pron?
Get some free music and share my stuff here. I didn't RTFA and don't really care. Suing people over music is just a bonehead thing to do. See my sig and it will lead you to many musical delights - and horrors!
http://www.acetonestudio.com
I've seen this post dozens of times now. I'd be rather surprised if it were the same person every time, and highly suspect it's nothing more than a carefully engineered piece of fiction designed to get responses such as yours.
tl;dr: it's a troll dude.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
OP did look for CP and check them all out.
To have proof he must have many examples of them, him not being an officer acting on a case makes him a guy just collecting child pornography
We can't have pervs like him on the web!
I was wondering why my cheese pizza was never delivered. That failure totally ruined my dinner date with Theo de Raadt.
I had to read the summary 3 times before I actually understood what transpired. It would be nice if:
a)You explained what Anonymous was(is it a group? an unknown attacker? A kind of bug spray?)
b)You explained what the Ministry of Sound is.
c)You didn't repeat the word "website" 3 times in one sentence.
PROTIP: Moot moved to California for his canv.as startup. Lurk more.
Ministry and minister can be used in both a religious context and a government context, they aren't using the word incorrectly. Many governments also use those words in those ways. Go home, sit down, turn off the lights, and stay there. Do us a favour.
It's Gallant Macmillan, not Gallant Macmillian.
Now get off my lawn.
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
this web site
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It was probably first posted to 4chan.
I think I'm detecting a massive amount of "samefags" here.
Feel free to mod me down, just know that unlike some Anonymous Cowards I'm not afraid to express my views as myself.
i'd almost prefer if he was right just so i could see what a Defense Ministers church service would be like.
Ice Cream has no bones.
I'm with you on all points, but why are you so angry at Canada Post?!
Because they sometime deliver Child Pornography and so should be shut down.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
When is the last time music made you think?
This is stupid. It is just a gadfly and nothing more. They will simply swat it away.
Instead, it makes far more sense to run through their various servers and locate evidence of illegal actions taken on the part or in behalf of the publishing companies. The simple fact is, that crackers could do a real service by locating evidence of how many illegal actions these companies have taken (and yes, they ALL have ). Then get lawyers to sue these companies AND INDIVIDUALS. Once a few of them go to prison, I suspect that attitudes will change.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I time how long the threads remain active after they are reported (sometimes hours) and I log how many CP topics are posted in a day.
Strange, normally their lifetime seems to be a few minutes before getting nuked (unless you count threads that live on for hours before someone posts child porn and they then get deleted).
4chan has mods and its easy to solve the CP problem but moot doesn't want to because CP is a BIG part of the appeal of this place.
Well, they do what they can. Sort of like how you're using stale "copypasta" in what amounts to a lame attempt to troll, it's just that they are infinitely more competent.
4chan is the largest distributor of CP on the web.
Riiiiiiight....
Better than your spelling. It's Britney, you moron.
Heck, what does "irregardless" mean? Multiple negatives in one word is too much for my brain...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
What is a court faggot? Sounds interesting.
Your average MoS compilation is bus compressed so hard that I don't dare subject my amps to it, go anywhere near the clip light with that stuff and you know your spending a significant fraction of your time putting out DC.
Wow! I don't know what half that meant, but it sounded damn insightful!
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So why does the U.K. name all their departments with that connotation anyway?
It doesn't, but it used to. See Wikipedia's category, there's only the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defence using the word.
If anyone honestly believes that this is going to result in the various record labels worldwide finally throwing their hands up and saying "Enough! We give up", they're living in cloud cuckoo land. Far more likely it'll lead to much tighter regulation of the Internet in many first-world countries.
After all, we already have "three-strikes and you're out" laws in many countries, and those strikes frequently don't require any sort of due process. Plenty of governments have hinted by their actions that they rather like the idea of a tightly-controlled Internet where everyone does as they are damn well told or faces the consequences, this kind of thing could be all the justification they need to tighten the screw a little further.
Of course, it won't be painted in that fashion. It'll be painted as "Cyber-attacks cost businesses millions of ${CURRENCY} a year in lost revenue, this law will force ISPs to automatically detect and shut-off the Internet connection of anyone launching such an attack".
I have a large "body of evidence" in my basement, that I play to "bury" once I've "had my way with it".
Wait a minute, something's wrong with my pun.
How is this not a terrorist act? Sure, one guy's terrorist is another guy's freedom fighter, but attacking sites one disagrees with is still terrorism, whether it's done with bombs or botnets.
They attacked the MOS's pay site, which "seems to be a portal to buy authorized copies of artists under the Ministry of Sound label. This is an interesting escalation in the ongoing conflict, as it directly attacks the MOS's ability to sell music". Terrorism is, by definition, when you hit something as a publicity stunt, like the attack on mpaa.org. This is intended primarily to harm their bottom line, thus making it plain old guerrilla warfare.
Terrorism, by the contemporary meaning of the word at least, involves blowing shit up. Thankfully, other than a prank bomb threat, that is not the case here.
4chan's goal is not to terrorise, but to harass in order to be heard. In other words, it's no different than a real-world protest, where they stand outside the company's building and throw eggs and yogurt at everyone who dares come out, thus disrupting their business. It's a sad truth today that if consumers don't organise and hurt a company's wallet, they'll be totally ignored -- tell me that isn't true.
I would normally feel bad about the companies that are at the sharp end of all this, but I don't. At all. They totally deserve everything they get.
Really? This website being taken off-line for a little while actually caused you to feel a sense of terror for your life? Did you become afraid to purchase MoS albums because Anonymous might DDoS you?
This is protest. Big difference. If you agree with it or not, it is not something that is even anywhere close to being in the same league as terrorism.
Terror is an emotion that someone feels when they believe they are about to lose their life or the life of a loved one due to an external cause over which they have no control. The whole definition is important, not just the "have no control" part. Note that it doesn't exclude non-criminal acts, and does not require the external cause to be anonymous or even a person. You can feel terror hanging over a cliff.
Note that making a router's WAN light blink incessantly would not qualify on several levels.
If a TV figure or politician abuses the word "terror" to mean something as mundane as "an unidentified person broke the law", you can take it as a certainty that they are lying to you about terrorists, they are probably lying about a great many other things, and that they no longer deserve your respect or attention. Yes, this includes every talking head on Fox, over half of Congress, and the past two presidents.
John
Absolutely. It was terrifying. The prospect of not being able to buy the latest remix of Unce-unce-unce-unce shook my soul to its very core. I will be having sleepless nights for months to come. I worried about my family and my friends getting caught in the denial of service or getting wounded in the crossfire. "Never again", I thought to myself, "will my people be free to listen this mindless horseshit without fear of a slight delay because they can't buy it online and will have to walk to the shop or get it from a different website." Pure terror. I wanted to stand up to these evil people but I was scared so I just sat there, quietly leaking bodily fluids.
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
attacking sites one disagrees with is still terrorism, whether it's done with bombs or botnets.
No, it's not.
Because instead of being killed, maimed, and/or TERRIFIED, people were inconvenienced and possibly put out of a few sales, for a while.
Jaywalking is not an act of dissent due to it's scale. It's just not serious enough to qualify. A DDOS, to a music store, does not terrorism make. Even if they had thrown a brick into their window, it's still not terrorism.
Ease up on that trigger grandpa.
If I hadn't downloaded Ministry of Sound cd's off torrent sites, I never would have heard about the club. Last time I was in London I, and several friends, each dropped the 15£ cover and another 100£ or so each on drinks. I only went to the club because of the pirated music. I would go again next time I'm in town.
Terrorism != act of war.
In terrorism, you generally have a loosely-defined cause and you wage haphazard strikes against civilians and/or targets unrelated to the cause you claim to fight for. I.e., your goal is to cause widespread terror in everyone.
In a war, even a guerrilla war, you have a well-defined target or entity and you wage calculated and deliberate strikes against that target or targets directly related to the entity you’re at war with. Naturally your target should be reasonably concerned but the attacks should not cause widespread terror.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Erm, actually, not to be a pedantic asshat, but throwing eggs and yogurt at someone is assault, and battery if it hits someone. Putting that aside, though, the companies at the receiving end of this very probably deserve this sort of harrassment and worse, truth be told. Which makes me wonder.... ...is there any means by which to offer support to groups like 4chan and Anonymous outside of word of mouth/ blogosphere publicity?
Terrorism, according to the US State Department, is violence directed at innocent civilians in order to pressure a government or people. Blowing things up is not necessarily a requirement; look at the DC sniper for example.
They got knocked down, but they got up again.
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Yes, what you did certainly seems analogous.
The contrast in that case is humorous, but with you, +1 informative.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
n/t
Sometimes /. is hyperbolically enthusiastic about Internet media 'piracy' stuff, but the oft-mentioned "torrent --> buy" pattern does really hold true much of the time.
Even for major labels, even for people who are assholes about torrenting (ironically)
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
Or if we want to make the world collapse, leave "Ministry" to only its Christian connotations, and revisit the Ministry of Magic from the Harry Potter books. They can't ALL burn themselves at the stake for witchcraft after all.
It disturbs me that nature has progressed so that it is normal for a minority of predators, like cheetah, to terrorize/dominate/control prey that greatly outnumber them. If all the gazelle worked together, they could actively seek out the cheetah and impale/trample them until that evil was removed. But 'the selfish gene' means each individual basically only looks out for itself and doesn't naturally operate as a single group entity (like ants/bees might).
It seems counter-intuitive that a small minority could have such control over the majority but it happens with humans too, such as with dictators or corporations. I mean, many of us probably agree the world is completely fucked. Prisons are profitable, the education system is shit, the power of people is proportional to their fail levels, laws are bought etc. We're smart humans, not limited by selfish gene instincts. Can fucktards like CEOs and politicians actually win against a bunch of smart geeks? The entire economic system is completely imaginary paper or 'bits' for fucks sake. Can't the majority just remove their collective balls from the minority's grip and stop 'believing' in their system? Just ignore their currency system and it won't be real, thus making the rich's money meaningless. Ignore their political system and start our own system. I'd be happy if all world power was given to slashdot commenters who have the most '5' ratings or something, then just evolve from their. If the masses believe they have power, maybe they do.
The Ministry of Sounds. What they wanted was a sound that could kill someone from a distance.
Get the name right, please.