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Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker
gManZboy writes "Federal authorities have arrested an alleged member of Anonymous in connection with an "Operation Payback" attack against the website of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. The charges stem from a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Simmons' website over a five-day period in 2010. Simmons apparently drew the ire of the Anonymous set after he lambasted their peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading proclivities during a 2010 MIPCOM entertainment content media conference panel discussion, where he lamented the failure of the music industry 'to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material.'"
Not a lot of people really visit these sites anyway. If you want to lambaste the guy do it on twitter or facebook.
Advice to Gene Simmons - don't make China angry.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Guess 7 isn't enough.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I cannot think of a better use of taxpayer money.
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Legality, etc. aside, I thought I'd chime in on Mr. Simmons. If there's a bigger jacka$$ in the U.S., I'd like to see him/her. For 30+ years he has been a living tutorial on annoying self-promotion.
I thought the whole point of KISS was the live shows, are there actually people out there who routinely listen to their music?
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Just listen to some of the shit he says to Terry Gross:
http://www.erim.net/archives/gene-simmons-and-terry-gross-inteview
is a has been ass who thinks the world owes him money.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
You name it and he has s KISS logo slapped on it, everything from coffins to condoms...
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Anonymous would be a lot more effective if they focused on one thing longer than a week...they've done everything from embarrassment campaigns against child pornographers to hacking secret societies and crime syndicates to various political hacks to that one bizarre incident where they organized a hate mail campaign against a teenager with an anti-profanity site.
They fancy themselves hacktivists but they don't seem to try very hard at sending messages to the public, which I assume is who you'd like to reach if you think the entire government and corporate landscapes are irredeemably corrupt.
Bottom line, I don't get them. I don't think they have to be an absolutely coherent, focused force with an official spokesperson in a tie to be taken seriously, but they usually don't even seem like they're trying to change something; they're just fucking around and punishing people at random.
The loss to the KISS artist was estimated to be in the tens of dollars, the FBI reported today, after rounding up one of the freckled, young college kids mentioned. The FBI plans to drain the young adult's blood and pump it into the ancient man to revitalize him in time for his next comeback tour, which will feature duets by him and Lars Ulrich talking about how hard it is for them to get by on only a few hundred million a year. Common Sense was unavailable for comment at the time of the article's publication...
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Legally or illegally, who in their right mind would download anything by Gene Simmons?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
And what is KISS?
Am I missing something?
...the long tongue of the Law!
i think gene simmons is a gigantic douche, but script kiddies are even worse.
seriously, a DDoS? all that b/w wasted sucks for everyone. lame.
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I take insult that they say this "spyder101" character 'spearheaded' the DDoS attack against GeneSimmons.com. Everybody knows it was root and his "Anti-Bureaucracy Contingent". The guy had a goddamn botnet.
http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Anonymous-Cell-Splits-Off-and-Goes-After-Gene-Simmons-3.jpg
Your taxes at work.
Since I had to remove the KISS sticker in order to avoid those 'willful infringement' charges :)
When I first read it, I thought of Richard Simmons rather than Gene Simmons. Whoops. One is complaining about people being fat, the other about P2P (he doesn't know that P2P can be used for legal downloads too). As they get older, they grow more alike.
where he lamented the failure of the music industry 'to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material
Wonder if he's so quick to lament the failure of manga publishers to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who traced material and then sold it as their own?
For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, look into Nick Simmons' "Incarnate". Not hard to find, just search for the words "Simmons" and "Incarnate" in a search engine and notice how many times the world "plagiarism" can turn up on a single results page.
I first read it as "Feds Arrest Gene Simmons". You can imagine my disappointment.
No, they're not behaving like a mob, they're behaving like a bot. I could care less for this Kiss guy or his opinions, but first they DDOS mid-east countries for trying to stop free speech, then they DDOS this guy when he exercises it?
Someone in Anonymous needs to stand up and say "yes, there's a real human here" or admit they failed their Turing Test.
Gene Simmons can suck it ....
Last I heard, he got involved in Wall Street stock trading as his new career .... so *any* whining coming from THAT corner about stealing, I turn a deaf ear to.
(I knew a guy who did I.T. for one of the major firms providing real-time stock quote services to Wall Street traders and he said he met Simmons at one of their parties he got invited to. He still kept KISS figurines on his desk at the firm, but was dressed up in your typical business suit and dress slacks/shoes -- which looked kinda pathetic in and of itself.)
i think gene simmons is a gigantic douche, but script kiddies are even worse.
You are wrong. The kids will grow out of it in a few years.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
These guys could be a regular force for good.
To bad they're too stupid to pick their targets wisely.
And then his son traced whole pages out of the Japanese manga 'Bleach' and proceeded to make his own even more terrible comic book out of it. Could that possibly have something to do with it? (Or was this before that? Either way, pretty damned funny!)
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
Ethanol-fueled: Please, could you explain what does it has to do the religion of a human being with the way that person behaves? You also wrote "important to note..." You are a very ignorant person. Proof of that is the fact that you wrote "is the ultimate bad stereotype..." well my hatred loaded little being: let me tell you that EVERY STEREOTYPE IS BAD. So according to you, is this what you think of every person based on their choice of religion? # -Christians are all perverts (too many priests and bishops have been found guilty of having sex with very young boys). # -Muslims are all cold blooded terrorists (who are the ones crashing planes against buildings or blowing up themselves or trying to blow up planes?). # -Jews are all greedy, ugly and demonic (you find a fact to support this because I couldn't find one). # -Sikhs are all filthy and illiterate (they all have a thick and bushy beard and many drive a cab to earn a living). # -Buddhists are all lazy and selfish (they believe in meditation, relaxation and a minimalist style as a way to enlighten their "own" life) # Think about it.
Like "any fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid" would ever want to download a Kiss song. Even if it is free...
Maybe give Joe Adler a call? (Yes, this is a perhaps copyright-infringing clip from Extract.)
Quoting Gene:
Each and every one of these hackers should be locked in Federal jail with a cell-mate for 10 years of random rape.
Gene Simmons is also one of the primary reasons that /new/ on 4Chan was insurrected as a forum that pointed-out the massive influx of maintream news that was oriented as Jewish interests pre-packaged to direct the "animals" and "gentiles" and "goyum" into the consumerism and world religions. You can't make this stuff up. /new/ even proved relentlessly how Jews created communism, how the German NAZI Army in World War 2 was a multicultural army with over 150k jews in it's ranks including over 50k JEWISH commanding officers leading nationals to their deaths and that Hitler had an all-Jewish cabinet in his campaigns of war and civil leadership. What I was taught from US History was all lies from Jewish interests to hate Germany and Russia in what was termed as GRAND-THEFT COUNTRIES at the hands of the Jews.
So why actually do all the Jewish franchises get enforcement priority?
When the oath breaking fascists sign the NDAA, you won't be talking years in jail, but forever as an al-queda kiss terrorist.
"Notably, many failed to realize that the tool would add their IP address into the packets they generated, which were then directed at target websites."
Hardly. People just realized that, as one person out of thousands, they are unlikely to ever be arrested.
I strongly dislike Gene, this guy is an example of what is wrong with the US the guy should have smoked some herb, drink some wine or booze maybe he would see what an ass he is. Instead he has an addiction to making himself money at any cost. I am one of the few people who hate KISS!!!. Not sure why Anonymous would even bother with a web site, hack into his money at least, he would spend even more money trying to track down who did it... And why would the FBI waste money to arrest the the person accused of hacking a 'shitty web site'?? Gene should pay for the investigation unless he did pay the FBI to catch who did it. Why did Gene even bitch over pirated music, these guys are not going to be downloading his shit music anyway.
I never heard about this one before, but if Gene is like Lars, and is trying to cry about losing money for his songs being downloaded, I have to say, he is even more out of touch than I thought, but then again, isn't he going senile now?
It seems clear from reading the posts that many of you really do not understand what happened here. So I will explain it to you.
1) The accused is accused of leading a DOS attack. Not participating but leading it. That's important.
2) While it is true that he is facing 15 years for this, I would think it's unlikely that he'll do get that much time. Assuming he is a first time offender and he doesn't act like a complete jerk in court and his attorney also doesn't cop an attitude, if he is convicted he'll go to jail but I would guess that it would only be maybe 2 years.
3) Note that the feds are saying that he tried to cover up his IP address and it took them a while to get him. Clearly he knew that what he was doing was not legal.
Like it or not, it seems to me that the US government is very adamant about sending a message to Anonymous that some of them will get caught and they will go to jail. Anonymous members know that what they are doing is not lawful but they think they are too smart to get caught.
Oh wait, that was his daughter.
Here is Gene Klein's hot shiksa wife.
Well, ok, maybe his daughter is hotter than her mother. Must be Gene's genes working their magic for the next generation.
Seastead this.
Gene Simmons is a gigantic ass but he is entitled to his opinion. Anyone that wants to silence someone for having an opposing opinion is an even bigger ass.
go for the tongue