4Chan DDoS Takes Down RIAA and MPAA Sites
This past weekend 4Chan members launched distributed denial-of-service attacks on the websites of both the MPAA and the RIAA, taking the sites down for long periods of time on Saturday.
TorrentFreak reports that on Saturday 4Chan's 'Anonymous' launched a DDoS attack on Aiplex Software, an anti-piracy outfit hired by the MPAA to launch DDoS attacks on torrent sites that failed to respond to copyright infringement notices sent by the MPAA. Once Aiplex went down, 4Chan moved on to bigger and better targets.
"How fast you are in such a short time! Aiplex, the bastard hired gun that DDoS’d TPB (The Pirate Bay), is already down! Rejoice, /b/rothers, even if it was at the hands of a single anon that it was done, even if ahead of schedule. now we have our lasers primed, but what do we target now?
We target the bastard group that has thus far led this charge against our websites, like The Pirate Bay. We target MPAA.ORG! The IP is designated at “216.20.162.10″, and our firing time remains THE SAME. All details are just as before, but we have reaimed our crosshairs on this much larger target. We have the manpower, we have the botnets, it’s time we do to them what they keep doing to us.
REPEAT: AIPLEX IS ALREADY DOWN THANKS TO A SINGLE ANON. WE ARE MIGRATING TARGETS."
According to TorrentFreak, the assault on MPAA.org was successful; the site was taken offline within minutes and remained down for 18 hours until the MPAA moved its site to another IP address.
4Chan continued their efforts on Sunday and with the help of sympathizers, took down the RIAA website with a separate attack. The RIAA attack was scheduled for 3 p.m. Eastern Time and the site went down five minutes before that time.
Both the MPAA and Aiplex confirmed to the BBC that DDoS attacks were responsible for site downtime over the weekend.
Sources: Torrent Freak, BBC
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LOL Ah yes.. gotta love technology.
I cant stop laughing!!!
Yeah, there's more torrenters and Pirates than enforcers.
This is an epic win for 4chan and those that torrent stuff. No one likes u RIAA and MPAA.... go burn in hell!!
i wonder if this will give others the excuse to legally sue that site into oblivion. they should be more careful, get too many people angry, bad things might happen.
I love this! Even those not in favor of pirating know how stupid the RIAA and MPAA is. Good job 4Chan (& friends).
I have the biggest smile on my face right now
lol the internet version of a protest
Gotta love the poetic justice
That'll teach'em!!!! LOL
Yes! finally someone demonstrates how Denial of Service should be properly used!
This is so beautiful.
>Implying it was just 4chan
I find a great level of hilarity out of it.
I APPROVE.
While this does hold a certain level of "awesome" and "take THAT, d-bags," I'm left asking: what did this accomplish? What damage was REALLY done? If the black / white / gray hats all want to go to war, fine, but I don't see an ultimate goal to this other than each side taking turns harassing each other.
"...AIPLEX IS ALREADY DOWN THANKS TO A SINGLE ANON"
there is a single botnet herder capable taking out a website, just one.... thats frightening to think of, especially seeing as the site that they took down was for all intent a botnet herder themselves
saying that, i couldn't help but grin from cheek to cheek when i read the title
Now this is some beautiful digital warfare lol! Rock on!
Here we go, more privileges revoked because the spin doctors will label this some kind of terrorism, and a law will be passed, and then everyone will be under scrutiny.
Anon may be able to take down a website, but the *#AA's own our politicians, and the politicians control the enforcers. this will do nothing more than escalate the situation. They changed IP's now what, another DDos, new ip then what? Am i the only one who thinks these guys are playing a game of mental masturbation, look what we did, I feel so much better now..
sheesh
We are legion
Nice, but just out of curiosity who actually visits MPAA and RIAA websites?
I'm speechless. So happy - I'm speechless. A virtual rebellion has begun.
The people downloadig the torrents are the people with the gigabit seedboxes that can hammer your servers into oblivion. This should serve as a stern warning to the bastards!
4chan losers
Well I see Tomshardware has been taken over by a bunch of internet toughguy posters. It truely is a sad day
I approve. Anyways, what's next? The people who are represented by RIAA/MPAA would be a good choice imo.... or the internal mail servers used by any of the ones said above.
Yeah, I want free stuff, screw the RIAA and MPAA!
"We did it for teh lulz"
While I don't think that this has accomplished anything (who goes to the MPAA, RIAA, Aiplex sites? TPB probably gets more traffic in 1 minute than they get in 1 month. Their network infrastructure would also be that much easier to take down because of their low traffic levels. Of course TPB often goes down just from regular user loads.
That being said, its still a nice gesture.
Even with widespread piracy, the movie, music, and video game industries are still profitable. If piracy were to end tomorrow, I don't think they would lower prices. They would just be given carte blanche to charge whatever they want. iTunes' business model is successful because of their pricing schemes. This was a reaction to piracy and consumers benefited. Steam for computer games is also gaining popularity because of its pricing- especially for older titles. The financial meltdown is proof of what greedy bastards can do. They don't have your interests are heart. They want to make a **** load of money mostly at your expense. I have nothing against making a decent profit and getting paid well but some of the profits and bonuses paid were outrageous sums. In these days of global mergers, corporate collusion and price fixing, I sometimes think there may be a need for these Internet revolutionaries. We need someone to keep these corporations in check.
Go Digital Che!