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Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music
First time accepted submitter EW87 writes "Shortly after a federal raid today brought down the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers aligned with the online collective Anonymous have shut down sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group and the RIAA. 'It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org,' Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon."
Mod parent up. This is really stupid. Any hacker who thinks he can keep his tracks covered forever should think again. Nothing like a little public outrage to fuel some kind of suspending-habeas-corpus-body-snatching legislation like the Patriot Act and these little twats will end up being waterboarded somewhere in Egypt. Lil' hacker buds would do well to remember that meatspace is not cyberspace.
Indeed, I keep telling people that ID theft is really ID sharing and it should be decriminalized, after all you can't steal information, right??
Fucking liar.
Habeas corpus was not invalidated, and I challenge you to point to where it says otherwise. Americans are not under occupation. You're just a crazy paranoid person spreading his bile and itching for blood.
If downloading child pornography supports child pornographers how can downloading music destroy the music industry?
This is hands-down the most ignorant thing I've ever read.
BTW I'm a professional musician of 15 years and an audio engineer of 8 years. SOPA is bullshit, but the likelihood of you being introduced to musicians you enjoy is directly proportional to the assurance they have of their talent being rewarded. If they can't sell their music, nobody will invest in promoting them. If this is prevalent on an industry-wide basis, no musicians get promoted, all you get is the contrived fluffy garbage we hear today.
Believe me when I say that SOPA is not just the result of greedy labels, it is in part a response to pro-piracy bullshit like yours. The arts requires some protection against the flagrant piracy going on, and governments and the courts have always agreed with that and wanted to provide that reasonably. Any argument against that is pro-piracy, deal with it. The MAFIAA has the lobbying power to get laws written, and they will be written in direct proportion to the aggressiveness of short-sighted pro-piracy advocates like yourself, since they lend excellent argument for tougher copyright laws. They can either be like SOPA, or you can STFU and they won't be so intent on capitalizing on the situation.
I stand to benefit a lot from SOPA once money starts being invested in music again, and it won't bother me one bit. I'd rather copyright laws were more reasonable, but overkill is better than nothing. It's not my fault you clowns made the overkill possible and effectively dared them to do it. They're rich assholes with deep government connections, and you're openly advocating the failure of their business. How did you expect them to react?
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Stop with the silly Iran thing, really. If I break Iranian law by actions in the US without ever having my actions affect any aspect of Iranian society/economy, etc then my actions, not only unknown in Iran, will have no impact on Iran. HOWEVER, when non-US folks break laws that have direct impact on US companies and US citizens INSIDE the US (and they use US computer services)then of course they are fair game to be prosecuted. Sorry you don't like the long arm of the law, but if I start messing with French companies from the US then France certainly has the right to seek me out. Not that France has the backbone for that sort of thing, but still...
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Yes! We need a revolt so that we can make writers, musicians, film makers, programmers, photographers, painters and the like - finally - into the slaves we've always wanted them to be. Stupid artists, they must understand that whiney adolescents who want free entertainment have the moral high ground, and that the artists themselves should have no influence over or claim to their own efforts. Bow down, artists - your 12-year-old masters demand that you create stuff for them!
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