Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, Universal Music and US Copyright Office
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Amazing how much more efficient Anonymous is than the government.
[url]https://twitter.com/#!/AnonDaily/status/160134687862439936[/url]
They're asking for donations. What do they need donations for?
[QUOTE=Number-41;34297599]There's no clear link between SOPA and this. Both just involve the same topic.
l2interpret news[/QUOTE]
It's obvious that they're just waving their dicks around and using Megaupload as an example of what will happen if you oppose them.
[QUOTE=joe588;34297652]yup a huge fbi investigation involving 8 or 9 countries only takes a day[/QUOTE]
investigations take years but they choose when they make the bust. they chose the day after SOPA protests. Or maybe they just chose it during a general time of year, like in this month... which puts it right after the whole SOPA debacle began in the first place.
Which means they were probably hoping to charge the accused with even MORE after the planned success of SOPA.
[QUOTE=st_nick5;34297671][url]https://twitter.com/#!/AnonDaily/status/160134687862439936[/url]
They're asking for donations. What do they need donations for?[/QUOTE]
more bots
[QUOTE=TheJoey;34297675]investigations take years but they choose when they make the bust. they chose the day after SOPA protests.[/QUOTE]
This, they've obviously been after Megaupload for a while, but the timing is way too convenient to be an accident.
WOOO YEAH ANONYMOUS
oh wait
this isn't gonna help matters at all for fucks sake, it'll just make the Internet look less credible than it already looks.
Let me know when they are able to shut down the DOJ's [I]internal[/I] servers...
[QUOTE=TheJoey;34297603]1. fast and forceful action says the most. ex: FBI's response to blackouts across the internet in anti-SOPA protest, (wrongfully) busting megaupload, was an attempt at this. anon just did it better by DDOSing the fuck out of sites in a very quick and efficient retaliation.[/quote]
Nobody knows yet if the Megaupload takedown was a response to the blackout protests. Seems unlikely, considering it usually takes more than a day or 2 to bring such a large court case and a site takedown.
[quote]2. taking down the websites is like knocking down a fast food place's big neon sign and blocking access to their drive-through window. many people rely on that website despite there being other ways of interacting with the company/organization, and thus the company/organization loses revenue. they also use up a lot of bandwidth and would have to pay out the ass to cover it if their domain service doesn't reimburse.[/quote]Remind me again how the Department of Justice, US Copyright Office, RIAA, MPAA and UMG rely on their public sites, or even the public at all, to make money. The cost of bandwidth overrun is hardly going to be even the tiniest scratch in their earnings.
[quote]3. it's a message, clear and simple.[/QUOTE]What, "We aren't going to challenge your actions legally (even though we'd probably win), we're going to throw a temper tantrum and take down your sites instead despite it being blatantly illegal!"?
A horse's head in your bed is a message. A brick thrown through the window with a threat taped to it is a message. A bombing is a message. This isn't much of a noticeable message to anyone. It'll be gone in a few days, forgotten like the rest.
The actual meaning behind these attacks is going to go unnoticed by the general public, they're going to come to the conclusion that the guys behind it are a criminal, ill-behaved lot, as they would if the other forms of messaging mentioned were used.
[url]https://twitter.com/#!/AnonDaily/status/160136127792164864[/url]
They managed to break into one of their servers?
Also I like how the second article calls megaupload a "popular hub for illegal file sharing."
[QUOTE=st_nick5;34297736][url]https://twitter.com/#!/AnonDaily/status/160136127792164864[/url]
They managed to break into one of their servers?[/QUOTE]
you guys asked for it
[editline]19th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;34297730]
What, "We aren't going to challenge your actions legally (even though we'd probably win), we're going to throw a temper tantrum and take down your sites instead despite it being blatantly illegal!"?[/QUOTE]
"we're not going to take this shit."
it's not supposed to be very complicated. this is anon kicking sand in the face of the companies. kicking sand in a bully's face is a very simple action but its an action nonetheless, and one of many escalating actions to come.
[QUOTE=JoshJosh117;34297745]Also I like how the second article calls megaupload a "popular hub for illegal file sharing."[/QUOTE]See, that's the problem. The public isn't going to know better, and news like this just solidifies the position.
[QUOTE=st_nick5;34297736][URL]https://twitter.com/#!/AnonDaily/status/160136127792164864[/URL]
They managed to break into one of their servers?[/QUOTE]That's more useful than DDoSing a site. Probably should've stuck to sneakily breaking into their servers and getting worthwhile documents than just shutting off the more inane parts of their Internet presence and giving the opposition more ammunition to use against them in Congress, ESPECIALLY with things like SOPA being considered.
[QUOTE=st_nick5;34297736][url]https://twitter.com/#!/AnonDaily/status/160136127792164864[/url]
They managed to break into one of their servers?[/QUOTE]
if its the megaupload servers, copy everything.
if its a different sites server, delete everything.
[quote]Update 7: Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous' history—over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.[/quote]
holy shit
[QUOTE=TheJoey;34297920]holy shit[/QUOTE]
I'd like to quote a friend of mine:
"There is one thing you don't ever do: Piss people off who know more about what you are using than you do."
Good, fuck them all.
People always have such double standards with anonymous... bitching and moaning about their childish tactics one minute, and praising them the next.
I'm more on the praise side of things generally, at the end of the day they get media attention. They're essentially the voice of the internet, and their ideals are similar to most of ours. It's times like this I'm glad they're around, and we all should be.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;34298018]People always have such double standards with anonymous... bitching and moaning about their childish tactics one minute, and praising them the next.
I'm more on the praise side of things generally, at the end of the day they get media attention. They're essentially the voice of the internet, and their ideals are similar to most of ours.[/QUOTE]
Most of the time they're just talk, and they don't actually do anything.
edit - They're doing something now though.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;34298018]People always have such double standards with anonymous... bitching and moaning about their childish tactics one minute, and praising them the next.
I'm more on the praise side of things generally, at the end of the day they get media attention. They're essentially the voice of the internet, and their ideals are similar to most of ours.[/QUOTE]
I like the fact that it raises media attention, but I don't like the whole "hurr We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." tough guy act that a lot of people have going on.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;34298018]People always have such double standards with anonymous... bitching and moaning about their childish tactics one minute, and praising them the next.
I'm more on the praise side of things generally, at the end of the day they get media attention. They're essentially the voice of the internet, and their ideals are similar to most of ours.[/QUOTE]
Because anyone can anonymously post on the internet claiming to be anonymous. They're all just people. I like those who get things done, and the ones who talk all day but do nothing annoy me.
I don't think I've ever seen anonymous act so quickly...
[editline]15th Jan[/editline]
Shame DDOS'ing only temporarily takes the website offline.. not permanently, then it'll be a taste of their own medicine.
[QUOTE=st_nick5;34298040]Most of the time they're just talk, and they don't actually do anything.[/QUOTE]
Maybe so, but hardly a week goes past without them getting into the headlines one way or another... they're a prominent and active part of internet uprising, protest and activism. The bottom line is, without them nobody would listen to "the internet" in the collective sense. They represent Average Joe, because thats exactly what they are. They're everybody. They generally do a decent job... except when they create overly dramatised videos and dub over the Inception soundtrack ;)
All I'm saying is, think about this day next time you jump on the anonymous hate bandwagon.
EDIT: I'm speaking to everybody when I say that, we should all remember this the next time the Facepunch majority starts slating Anonymous. At the end of the day, it's them that'll be in the newspapers tomorrow defending the internet's freedom, not us.
Slightly off-topic, could this be the reason why I can't log into Twitter through the Twitter app on my Blackberry? From the amount of users posting on Twitter or something?
copyright.gov is sunk, and EMI is heading there.
By.. almost any standard the DOJ and FBI went well above the law to perform this ridiculous arrest.
By doing this they've shown that laws have almost no validity, and high up people can bypass them whenever the fuck they want completely at their discretion; what they say, and what they want is "law." to hell with the rest of the serfs.
I cant see any moral issue with what anon is doing.. just waiting to hear the hypocritical complaining of the FBI, DOJ and UM as they whine about anon being a bunch of pirates breaking the "law."
[QUOTE=Chuushajou;34298087]I don't think I've ever seen anonymous act so quickly...[/QUOTE]
When they really get organized, it is PHENOMENAL what they're able to achieve. This action was a direct slap in the face to every anti-SOPA supporter out there, and Anonymous isn't about to take that lying down.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;34298100]Maybe so, but hardly a week goes past without them getting into the headlines one way or another... they're a prominent and active part of internet uprising, protest and activism. The bottom line is, without them nobody would listen to "the internet" in the collective sense. They represent Average Joe, and generally do a decent job... except when they create overly dramatised videos and dub over the Inception soundtrack ;)
All I'm saying is, think about this day next time you jump on the anonymous hate bandwagon.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I'm not on the Anonymous hate bandwagon. I edited my post after I saw that it makes it seem like I'm bashing Anonymous.
If only they would do something slightly more effective, or try to keep these websites down for very extended periods of time.
Following the twitter, this is pretty interesting. Sure it will be on the news if they keep this up tomorrow.
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