4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Websites. Interesting.
Normally I don’t condone vigilante justice, but the MPAA and the RIAA have been asking for something like this for years. Not that I think it’ll do any good in the long run.
Nor, I suspect, will the DDOS attacks against the torrent websites.
Incidentally this makes me imagine an Onion article where a high-street store is DOS attacked.
Too bad the websites aren’t really their base of operations.
Yes, because standing up for your rights and the rights of the creators is just plain wrong. People should be able to steal whatever they want!
I have no problem with people standing up for their right to protect their creations. The RIAA, MPAA, etc have gone far beyond that. Like suing the dead. Or suing a 12 year old. Or installing software that opens computers to malware and viruses without the owner’s consent. Or hiring hackersto steal trade secrets and email correspondence. Oh, and of course the MPAA started the DDoS attacks. Had they not done that, 4chan probably would’ve left them alone.
How many times does this stupid-assed argument conflating copyright infringement with theft have to be refuted before you numpties understand?
This is roughly my viewpoint. As a sometimes network security professional, I’m all in favor of the legal blackholing of sites that originate attacks. This sort of public effort, while not legal, is fully ethical in my own little hierarchy of network sins.
The copyright argument is, at best, tangental. Aiplex and/or the MPAA is not justified in polluting the global internet with illegal attack traffic, regardless of the alleged crimes of their target.
This was my thought on hearing this as well. If a torrent site is attacked and goes down it ceases to function but for the RIAA and MPAA the websites aren’t too important at all, I doubt many people noticed at all and I doubt the companies in question were that bothered.