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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.'"
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.
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.
I'm starting to get tired of this anti-copyright rhetoric that permeates Slashdot and the internet in general. You act as if you're some sort of freedom fighters working toward a noble cause, when you're really just self-serving, petulant children that want to download episodes of Dexter or The Dark Knight or the latest Queens of the Stone Age album without having to pay for it. Drop the pretense, it's pathetic. You're not part of a revolution; you're not fighting the evil empire; you're not being oppressed.
Copyright law is what enables content creation (whether it be film production, music, literature, video games, etc.) to be a viable business model and career path. I don't judge people who pirate content, and can't claim to be completely innocent of it myself, but this righteous indignation is really starting to get irritating. You're wrong, you know you're wrong, DEAL WITH IT. When I get a speeding ticket, or underpay on my income taxes and owe back taxes the next year, I don't throw a tantrum and launch DDoS attacks on city hall; I know I'm in the wrong, so I pay the fine and move on. That's the cost of living in a society.
i`d rather "take" a cent from the artists then add a dollar to the corruption wallets, u throw out a loaf of bread if theres a tiny bit of black(i mean the mold) on the edge
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Stop being a pedant, it's using something you didn't pay for. Even if it's not depriving the creator of the original copy you're still stealing it.
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.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
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?
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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?
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
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?
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
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.
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.