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LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA
Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting that the RIAA is using the latest activities of hacktivists to bolster its claim that America needs the PROTECT IP Act, the act that would place a layer of censorship on the internet in the U.S."
please select the RIAA HQ as your next target.
And expose the sordid details of RIAA exec's child prostitution activities on their Thailand "business trips".
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
It makes perfect sense to me, seeing as how it is a known fact that all members of Anonymous and Lulzsec are under the jurisdiction of U.S. Law.
Obviously anyone here understands that the Protect Act has NOTHING to do with the stupidity that the RIAA is spewing. But let me restate it for those that don't understand. They are using recent events as a False Flag-like excuse. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/False_flag I am not claiming in any way, shape or form that they are responsible for said events. Merely that they are taking advantage of them in this way.
Restore the madness of youth's lechery
The RIAA required a scapegoat and the Lulzsec/Anon attacks were just what they needed to push this crap.
...by signing into law the National Socialism Does All Possibilities (NSDAP) Act of 1933!
I've heard ProtectIP bans any site that links to copyrighted material.
Is it true that ProtectIP could shut down every single forum on the Internet if they wished?
Afterall, someone only needs to post a link to copyrighted material
God spoke to me
If you think about it, most of us pay a flat rate for cable television and receive a stream of content. The only difference between that and the Internet is that we can select the content we're interested in.
The infrastructure is already in place to allow massive consumption of TV, movies, and music over the Internet -- the only part that's missing is the payment for the content. Instead of labeling people as pirates, building this massive apparatus for surveillance, punitively restricting access to a medium essential to most of our livelihoods, and chucking a whole new bunch of nonviolent offenders in jail... couldn't we just throw a modest surcharge on the Internet to compensate the content providers and let everything else work as it has?
It just seems so much easier than pushing shit uphill as has been done to this point. Everybody uses the Internet, just about everybody will be an infringer if you count things like having RIAA music in the back of Youtube videos or streaming music from websites that haven't got full RIAA approval, so just throw a surcharge on the Internet bill and keep the courts at work on more important things.
So the logic here is the same as it has been for every rights-compromising measure put forth so far this century; "[name of enemy] is going to cause massive amounts of economic/physical/spiritual damage unless [measure] is undertaken immediately. [measure] will of course restrict your rights, but it's all in the name of protecting something greater than you." Of course, that something invariably reduces to somebody else's profit, which is likely already happening at your expense, so why change the status quo now.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
The other day, after reading yet another news story about the censorship moves in Australia and more PROTECT IP stuff, I decided that it was time to try out configuring Privoxy to forward everything via SOCKS5 to Tor. I was expecting a much bigger performance hit than I actual did, though, which was a pleasant surprise. Sure, its annoying having to enter CAPTCHA tags for Google all the time, but that's really not that big of a hassle. For the less technical people, Vidalia + the Tor Button for Firefox are pretty much fool proof. Between advertisers, stories about repression of online descent in the middle east and asia, Facebook and Google tracking people all the damned time, etc, I think (or, at least, I would like to think) that it might only be a matter of time before more and more 'normal' people, even those who really, truely, have nothing to hide, start doing something similar.
When Comcast starts filtering port 9050 like they do with 25, then we'll know we've pretty much lost the Internet once and for all. But hey, at least the Department of State supports Internet freedom in China, right? pffft.
Their child prostitution is right out there leading their marketing pushes. Check out the "teen seen" music sources and Disney Channel fare. 13 year old girls in bustiers?
MAFIAA is _proud_ of their rampant selling of child sex and sexuality to the public. That it is more "child porn" than direct prostitution is the only possible argument.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
It's more along the lines of... with the mis-deeds of the RIAA, the Protect IP act which has more potential for mis-use than real use (given how existing tools are already being more mis-used than used), with censorship appearing all over, because of these reasons we need Anonymous, Lulzsec or others like them.
In short, we need a REAL free press.
Sony is a member of the RIAA, after all. I applaud LulzSec's actions (most of 'em, anyway) and urge them to keep up the good work.
I was the "victim" of a group much like LulzSec before the turn of the century, and it was hilarious (to me, anyway) indeed. My site, the Springfield Fragfest, made fun of everybody (for the lulz before "lulz" was coined). I was kind of the Don Rickles of the Quake world -- I made fun of everybody, and everybody I made fun of became fans (well, almost everybody, some folks have no sense of humor). I'd have folks' pet shamblers pissing on the couch, Thresh taking speed, etc.
There was a group much like LulzSec (for all I know it might have had some of the same members) that was in the nerd news, so I posted a bit about them accompanied by a photo of a group of Down's Syndrome kids as illustration.
They broke into my host's servers and removed the <img> tag and photo... and left the text intact! I was honored as well as amused.
But, you know, the people (and I use that term loosely) LulzSec are targeting have no sense of humor whatever. Again, guys, keep up the good work, and thanks for the lulz. I hope reports of LulSec's death are greatly exaggerated.
Free Martian Whores!
The hacking, compromising, or intrusion of a computer system has nothing to do with the copying/distribution of copy protected works. The unlawful access of a computer system is already against the law and there is nothing this act would do to improve security because security is up to each individual organization and how they implement it.
This is classic politics at work folks, keep your eye on the ball!
1) Escalation
2) Everything gets suddenly better and not worse
RIAA has reached 1944 on the escalation scala... don't worry...
It will treat everyday law abiding citizens as charged criminals under investigation while the people it targets will patch over it in less than a day...
At this point I have trouble weighing out which group is dumber
Don't poke the bear it will come aft......... ahhhhh
Fuck you.
Sure, first we'll just repeal the first amendment. . .
that AnonSec will be getting that RIAA dirt very soon...
Hiatus over, challenge accepted?
To shut up and go back to Hell to do the Devil's bidding and to leave us and the internet alone.
It seems to me that the RIAA/MPAA/etc is the reason for LulzSec and Anonymous
I exchange a hard drive with a group of friends, a few times a year. There is music on that drive. Let's see you stop THAT, RIAA
They'll just push for a $0.0X per MB tax on all data storage (even embedded flash RAM).
And the first thing that needs to be censored is the RIAA.
I am uncertain how Creative Commons fits into this bill. Which is stronger, Permissions to Share or "Don't Link to Copyrighted Material". Suppose then that we make haste to develop an archive of public domain material?
Copyright Video 1
What Anonymous/LulzSec do (a good percentage of the time) is illegal anyways, yes? Why the crap do we need new laws when what they do is already criminal?
"Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded." -Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Mandatory Public key encryption all the way down to the Intel processor level.
Your data won't work on someone else's CPU, you'll have to exchange computers. Any "unsigned" media (eg: recorded by routing spk to line-in), would either not play, or require a content creator's license.
I seriously hope it doesn't come to that, but I wouldn't doubt it for a moment.
Time to 1) donate to open-source hardware projects and 2) Stop buying Intel or other processors that support such things (to say nothing of the remote kill switch) -- a vote with your wallet will be heard the loudest (oh who am I kidding, no one gives a damn, look at Apple -- MS will have an "app store" soon too).
I knew this was going to happen. Hackers do more harm than good for the rest of us just because they want to stroke their egos. ... of course the egos of executives at Hollywood need to be stroked to at our own expense.
I am just sick of it and people who do not think about the repurcusions of their sensless actions. I am not worried about the RIAA more than I am about the federal government getting involved with more acts to limit liberty and monitor all our data and put caps on our bandwidth so the NSA can monitor everything.
http://saveie6.com/
Don't we have DRM starting with Vista. I thought trusted computing was support to be out by now that included such a thing. Whatever happened to it?
http://saveie6.com/
Quite obviously, the law actually talks about linking to copyright material that is redistributed illegaly.
The ability of our country to lead -- and the ability of U.S. companies to create employment -- will depend upon our continued success.
Neil Turkewitz, Executive Vice President, International, RIAA
this is how the 'letter' on the riaa website ends.
'the ability of our country to lead': well, since engineering and manufacturing of actual goods has gone overseas, I suppose only you, your ilk and fast food workers are what we have left in the US. if the way we 'lead' the world is via your methods, I think we are better off not leading.
'US companies creating employment': lawyers and folks like that. yup. but do we want more of THAT kind of US employment?
and I even question the 'continued success' part. your buying base outright hates you and side-steps you at every turn. you war on them and wonder why they hate you and don't continue paying for your existence?
neil, you are so fucking full of yourself. probably considered a trait of success at the place you work at, though...
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Why dont we do one better and to extend protections to the RIAA and others just flat out ban copyrighted material from the internet...we could go back to the days when "lawlessness" ruled the internet but it was also inherently more useful.
The RIAA & MPAA are the reason for Anonymous,Lulzsec,ect
Geek Hillbilly
The support is built into every computer that carries an Intel, IBM, or AMD CPU and has been for almost a decade. Most systems come with it disabled by default - it's left disabled and up to the end user to enable it. Mostly it's for corporate use at the moment.
I know Apple has a "crippled" form of it enabled by default on all of the MacTel machines.
@Mindless Drivel: 100% of Twitter posts ever Tweeted.
Care to back that up with a reputable site or are you just one of those fucktards who likes to think anyone who does something you like is just like you in principles?
Any argument is good, we already know that. We have seen enough from the RIAA to know they'd even use their own Mother as an excuse to promote their crap, only they ain't got no mother. Here is the only solution for them. Kill off everyone. That way you won't have any piracy claims. For those with half a brain, follow the logic through... Lets pretend everyone is dead cept those who are considered good customers. Would they notice any difference? See problem already solved. They can't claim dead people stole from them... oh wait they probably can and have.
Time to hunt them down one at a time..
In Soviet Russia, authoritarian law is reason for Anonymous & LulzSec.
at least this time the powers that be didn't blow-up two buildings to make their strawman..
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
Told you so.
Just saying
They need to be quicker on their feet to out adapt the world of technology. Counter measures roll out faster than laws countering measures. All it does is create some vicious enemies with long memories. The RIAA needs to STFU and come up with a modern working business model for the digital age. It doesn't take much brain activity to come up with something that could solve this problem, so what the hell is their problem?
Take the Red Pill.
The MAFIA (MPAA/RIAA) will find any and every excuse, and stop at no amount of lies and bullshit in order to push their agenda. They lie about internet piracy, pretending its thousands of times worse than it is. They lie about 'money lost' --at one point they claimed to have lost more money in 5 years than their official US Government IRS records showed their gross income to be for the previous 150 years combined (actually the amount they claimed was more than 10 times as large as the global gross record sales for the previous 150 years). They buy off politicians to push their corrupt agenda. They assert that others are criminal yet have no moral pangs about illegally bribing elected public officials. WIPO is a joke! Its a self-regulating group that was created to create an artificial monopoly for a group that in reality gives corporate welfare to a very small group. They are large enough now, to create their own laws, buy their own judges, politicians, and act as a burden on society worldwide. The fundamental reason for creating WIPO --as a way of supporting artists and authors-- has been lost. SONY, DISNEY, and Universal are where the money ends up. In Canada, artists took big music to court for failing to pay royalties to artists --some of the royalties not paid went back more than 30 years--, decades before the bad-old internet came along. Decades before the bad-old internet came along, were the worse-than-bad-old record and film conglomerates.
LOL, I was just waiting for this.. Problem, Reaction, Solution.. works every time.
The magical number is: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Is this guy's first name Foghorn?
You gotta--I say you gotta hear that whoosh over your head, boy. Whoosh, that is.
Protect IP matters because Detriot is an industrial wasteland. Intellectual Property is becoming more and more of the product we have to export. Because of this we escalate its importance to the point where at some future point we must defend our intellectual property using men with guns on foreign soil, defending our right to charge what we will for the broadcast rights to Justin Bieber's latest album on the peoples of India and China - who don't want to hear that crap anyway.
The whole thing is sick. Eventually the world is going to call us to the carpet on that and make us make useful stuff for the value we get. And then what have we got?
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Whoever didn't see that coming is a bit naive. Call me a conspirationist paranoid if you want but I wouldn't even be surprised if we learn in a few years that lulzsec was manipulated/helped/covered by the people who want internet under control, this pyromaniac fireman tactic happened many times in the past.
PROTECT IP Act most definitely won't improve security of corporate servers. But it will piss many people off which will result in many more hacks ...
FASCIST BITCHES FUCK YOU ALL! Your fucking day reckoning is coming.
The result of aggressive filtering and censorship like that in the US will be a decentralization of the Internet. Instead of relying on a few easily controlled DNS servers and other components, people will move to decentralized, self-validating systems that will be even harder for governments to control. And people will start encrypting their traffic regularly. So, go ahead, make our days!
We must make more and stricter censorship rules!
No one must be allowed to say anything that involves us, the rules we make, or the things we makes rules about under penalty of death!
There... that should do it
They put lots of money to a mate of someone important who then cut corners and the building intended to withstand a full jumbo jet lamming into it falls down like a soggy cardboard box. Since the builders and politicians in on it never expected a plane EVER to hit it, or at least not until they'd retired, some quick hiding of evidence of the shoddy workmanship was needed.
The use to promote PATRIOT was just a side-effect bonus.
Why not make a law that says ISP's must do DNSBL vs. known bad sites/servers/domain-host names instead, as well as IP addresses of the same (vs. when malware uses those vs. host/domain names).
(Hey - That would stop probably 95% of folks "blundering into" sites that nowadays even have adbanners loaded with malicious script, or bogus trojan executables/viruses etc.!)
Especially because nowadays, malware-in-general isn't just out to wreck your system, it's there to STEAL YOUR "DEAD-PRESIDENTS/COINS"!
After all - we're the tax paying constituency as citizenry of the U.S.A. & yes, so is the members of the RIAA (or any corporate concern as well). Since tax monies pay for things via government, why don't we "little guys" get anything out of it, like less possibilities of getting infested by malware-in-general online (rootkits/virus/spyware etc.- et al)?
Hey - if Norton DNS can do it, why can't all other ISP/BSP's out there?
* Do something where EVERYONE gains instead of catering to "lobbyists" (bribery spelled sideways imo), especially "Joe Public" - the little guy...
APK
P.S.=> This is what SHOULD be done, but isn't afaik... why?
Yes, yes - I know: Folks are going to reply, if they do, along the lines of "Big Money RULES" or "It's the way things have always been"... etc./et al!
Well - maybe, JUST MAYBE, that's why things are so screwed up lately, especially economically!
I mean, they sent jobs overseas - Dumb!
That's another HUGE MISTAKE that was allowed... I mean, where do these politicians get their PAYROLL from? Tax payers. Take away our jobs, especially disposable income bearing jobs, & their money disappears too... stupid thinking imo!
Take away GOOD PAYING JOBS, businesses don't get the customers they used to, to pay their suppliers, & then they cut jobs (furthering the problem - payrolls being the easiest cost-center to control in a business mind you)...
QUESTION: Has this all been put into place to impoverish & destroy the rapidly eroding "middle class" so the rich get richer + create an 'everyone else is poor, but our clique' scenario, so they cannot challenge the wealthy + take away what little they may have (such as a home), perhaps?
... apk
With proof they WORK - IF spam filters have made SPAM drop http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1534210/Spamming-Becoming-Financially-Infeasible then, DNSBL can do the SAME for malware-in-general!
APK
P.S.=> Sure, sure - "it'd affect jobs", well guess what? Even though a techie spends probably 85% of his day removing malware for folks (malware that MAY have stolen their monies or personal information mind you, & most nowadays actually LOOKS TO DO THAT VERY THING!)? There's always other jobs techs do... I know, I was one @ times over the years while not coding or doing network admin stuff!
It's like saying "We can CURE CANCER - but, it'd put Doctors out of work!"
DUMB!
I mean, for Pete's sake - Which is the LESSER OF 2 EVILS here? I say putting doctors out of work, but they, just like computer techs removing malware, always have other tasks & maladies to deal with anyhow, so they would NOT be "out of a job", period... I know, been there, done that job, & speak from experience 1st hand!
... apk
There are laws that allow the prosecution of people that fraud and steal. There are existing practices and best methods to increase security and protect valuable data on public facing internet sites and intranets.
Passing yet another law and adding a "monitor layer" in at the internet pipe or DNS level in an attempt to limit hacking and stealing does not make sense (specially one controlled by the government or special interests) and will not work any better than existing methods.
This is another attempt at corporations trying to get the taxpayers to foot the bill for their own security and to help maintain their business models and their own negligent lack of security.
Why are my tax dollars going to protect the music and movie industries? Why is it being spent tracking down knock-off purses and rogue network switching gear? Why is being spent to help BOA improve their security?
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
*Five* former RIAA lawyers in high positions in the Obama administration, and dozens more Democrat senators clearly bought & paid for by their buddies in Hollywood. :/
Their child prostitution is right out there leading their marketing pushes. Check out the "teen seen" music sources and Disney Channel fare. 13 year old girls in bustiers?
MAFIAA is _proud_ of their rampant selling of child sex and sexuality to the public. That it is more "child porn" than direct prostitution is the only possible argument.
"You know, Fox turned into a hard-core sex channel so gradually, I didn’t even notice." -Marge Simpson
The harder you squeeze your fist, the more (computer) systems will slip from your grasp. Given that we the people have greater total resources than you the gov, it is easy to see how totalitarian/dictatorships/communism/terrorists will always lose in the end. It's called evolution for you hardcore christians.
False Flag if I ever saw one! BTW, I could possibly one day shit my pants, can we set up a regulatory committee to safe-guard against that, as well?
riaa is a terrorist org.
Hey, but Anonymous is working actively to aid the "Food Terrorists" in Orlando.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Lulzsec missed a target it seems, maybe anonymous can catch up? I'm sure there's enough dirt on these POS execs on their computers to put them in prison for the next millennium, they will not be missed.