Hollywood Hiring Cyber Hitmen To Combat Piracy

I'm betting there are going to be some serious legal issues raised by the use of sanctioned DoS attacks.

This is going to piss a lot of people, including a lot of other hackers, what are they thinking? Wasn't hacking a crime? Are They going to let them do it?

Using a DoS attack on someone elses server should fall under cyber crime/war/terrorism protection. If fox has that done to a server based in the US i hope a cyber defense unit will shoves a nuke up their asses to stop them from committing felonies to stop misdemeanors.

Cyber Hitmen eh? I'm pretty sure the Hosts will find a way to counter these silly DoS attacks.

I am fairly sure vigilante justice is still illegal. If your neighbor steals your lawn mower, you are NOT allowed to go over to his house and shoot him (though, in some states, you might get away with it if you caught him on your property stealing it).

Still, is this an Indian firm attacking sites based in India, cause I have no idea what the laws are like there. If this is an Indian firm attacking sites based in other countries, that borders on international crime. Still, I don't think too many torrent sites are hosted in the U.S. so I really don't know what law would apply here. I would like to think that no one would be allowed to do this in the U.S. (hopefully).

So, let me get this straight... A criminal act of cyber-terrorism is OK because an agent of a rights-holder claims (but has not proven the claim to any legitimate judicial body in any country or jurisdiction) that you are infringing... I hope these guys annoy the 4chan folks, because a reverse DDNS attack that cripples a large chunk of the Indian local internet (which is, in theory, the largest democracy in the world) would be unfortunate... But, very, very funny.

Uh, would this be considered a declaration of war? Cause if so the crackers and maybe even some of the hackers out there are going to have a field day the movie industry. Just a thought.

First of all, I assume you mean a DDoS attack. A simple DoS attack would be ineffective and almost immediately dealt with by the server's firewall.

Second, a DDoS originating from a particular geographic region is almost as easy to block and would simply result in huge blocks of IP addresses belonging to Indian service providers being blocked.

The only way to launch an effective DDoS is to use a botnet with a large geographic distribution. However, this is highly illegal on many levels. Not only are you engaging in an attack which violates federal, state and local laws, you are also illegally comandeering and using computing resources belonging to countless private citizens, business, and even government entities (each of which is a separate charge of illegally accessing a computer).

Suffice it to say, this is the most illconceived idea I've heard of in a LONG time.

The BIGGEST problem in cyber security is not, as you might think, how to deal with cyber threats, but something called: attribution. In simple terms... who is responsible. If you own up to doing something like this, it would be like posting on Facebook that you intend to rob a bank because they short-changed you.

This should be illegal. Oh wait, it IS illegal.

I think this story is kind of neat and inspirational, imagine having that job, sounds like fun. AS long as what they are doing in India or other countries is within the law more power to them.

Someone needs to start fighting these kinds of issues and why not start by dishing out a little vigilante justice?

I thought these types of attacks require the attacker to infect a lot of computers first?
and I don't think they'll be targeting those websites only

Ha makes me lol there are ways to beat that weak idea. Good luck with that, there are people smarter out here than what anyone in Hollywood can come up with....

I can smell a hit new reality show! Live from Mumbai its cyber hitmen! Sounds like something fox would do.

Hollywood now considers itself a global power to attack the internet? I don't think so. At least not for the next couple of elections anyway.

I am not sure that these companies know what they are getting into. The private cyber community is much larger then couple of companies trying to do this. All I can say is let the games begin!! ;D

good job hollywoood.got your head up your butt here.declare war on the internet and you will be the one who is sorry in the end.

get ready to hack away hackers of the world

battle of hackers!!!

So how long before retaliatory attacks against the websites of these media companies? Can of worms == opened.

LOL!!!!, Oh the backlash that will come from this will be ....................AWESOME!!!!!!!!

"Cyber Hitmen" attacking Torrent sites because of Copyright material...

Now that is so laughable that it's pathetic!

Most Copyright material goes up on UseNET before any torrent sites even get to see the material. The quickest way to put a stop to the majority of pirating would be to shut down all of UseNET permanently.

But then again, good luck trying to even do such a thing as there are literally thousands of NNTP servers out there and if they ever did try to shut UseNET down, more NNTP servers would pop up faster than they could shut them down.

The biggest offenders are the Premium News (NNTP) Servers with High Retention rates, some being as high as a year or so.

Have they not realised you can download a torrent without the place you downloaded it being online?! Are they really that dense? The whole point of a torrent is that its not downloaded from one location like a standard HTTP or FTP file transfer.
Might help their cause if they understood there so called enemy

My mom always told me that two wrongs don't make a right....

Awesome....cyber wars. About time the victims stood up for their rights and took matters in to their own hands. Go Hollywood......take down the pirates!!!!!!!!!!