Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site

newtley writes "Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music's main IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) website is down. Not coincidentally, there's an Operation Payback post addressing the Pirate Bay crew's lost sentencing appeal: 'Dear IFPI, MAFIAA and other parasites, The recent verdict in the Swedish Appeal Court (ThePirateBay spectrial) provoked this statement from Operation: Payback. We emphasize our statement with a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack aimed at the IFPI's website.'"

Comments

Once again we prove...

[eggman9713]

You never mess with Anonymous. Whether Anonymous is right or wrong is for you to decide. But under either case, you don't mess with them.

Re:What the hell is the point?

[Haeleth]

Well, it's like any freedom fighters.

For example, the Patriots didn't win America's freedom by going up against the Redcoats in the field, they won it by temporarily occupying remote British farmhouses of zero strategic value.

And Martin Luther King Jr certainly did nothing for the cause of civil rights by standing up in public and speaking out -- the real heroes of that movement are the ones who anonymously blocked the entrances to Whites Only restrooms, often for whole minutes at a time, while said restrooms were closed anyway for renovation.

Geeze, it's like kids these days don't even get taught history at all.

Re:yeah

[clarkkent09]

Maybe your problem with starting a revolution is that being discriminated against based on the color of your skin is not really the same thing as not being able to download the latest Lady Gaga song for free. Rise up comrades we will never be forced to pay $1 per song, doesn't really have a rousing ring to it, does it. Maybe you should use your revolutionary energy on some other, less pathetic, fight.

Re:yeah

[BitZtream]

Actually, its not. You just need permits to do it in most places and when it gets excessive and starts bothering other people, then you get taken to jail.

You'll find that you can get by with just about anything as long as you leave others alone and don't bother them.

Of course thats not what you're trying to do. You're trying to throw a temper tantrum, light the building on fire and then expect everyone to see it your way.

How well is it working out for you so far?

Re:yeah

[pgmrdlm]

Your business place gets DoS/DDoS to the point they can not conduct business. Loss of business means loss of income to pay your salary if you work for them. Until the DoS/DDoS attack ends, your out of work.

You now have no income to feed your family. Non violent enough for you?

Re:yeah

[pgmrdlm]

Definitions of violence on the Web:

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

• ferocity: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"

• a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• Violence is the expression of physical or verbal force against self or other, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt.

• Worldwide, violence is used as a tool of manipulation and also is an area of concern for law and culture which take attempts to suppress and stop it. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence

Hmmm, I see more than one example in these definactions of violence not being physical. Verbal assault being one. I wonder what you consider these ddos attacks other then another form of verbal assault?

Or do you have a different dictionary then what I have?

Re:Well, somebody's showing...

[JockTroll]

If you're a KKK member you're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to bashing your skull in and shitting on your quivering corpse.