Sopa

Mykonos · 01-19-2012, 05:10 PM

Megaupload's been blocked due to SOPA attention before, I meant. The video in my OP mentions it, I think.

LoathsomePete · 01-19-2012, 05:11 PM

Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline

Well that didn't take too long.

RVCA · 01-19-2012, 05:14 PM

Oh no! Watch out! Kids on the internet are sending large information packets at websites again!

God, Anon are such useless basement-dwellers.

midnight rain · 01-19-2012, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by RVCA

Oh no! Watch out! Kids on the internet are sending large information packets at websites again!

God, Anon are such useless basement-dwellers.

Normally, I'm in agreement with you and think they do it just to be keyboard warriors.

However, this time it hit me a little more personally (cause I like megaupload so much and hate those companies so much), so I say DDOS on!

LoathsomePete · 01-19-2012, 05:22 PM

I hope that the real hackers can dig up some information that in some way implicates threats made against the countries that were harboring the individuals who were arrested. Kind of like the threats made against Spain if they didn't pass a law similar to SOPA

U.S. Ambassador Threatens to ‘Downgrade’ Spain over Online Piracy Laws | Techland | TIME.com

Mykonos · 01-19-2012, 05:37 PM

See, if those Anon kids knew what they were doing they'd take out the RIAA for good by just looking in their files and picking up all the evidence of corruption that's got a 90% chance of being stashed there.

RVCA · 01-19-2012, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Mykonos

See, if those Anon kids knew what they were doing they'd take out the RIAA for good by just looking in their files and picking up all the evidence of corruption that's got a 90% chance of being stashed there.

That's the thing about Anon-- almost none of them are real "hackers". That particular 4chan board does nothing but distribute a program (that anyone can download) that spams a lot of information at a particular address on the internet. It's really as simple as typing in a couple numbers and punching a button. When an address becomes overloaded with data, it crashes, and the host must restart it. That's what a DDOS is, "distributed denial of service". That's what 99% of Anon's "protests" comprise of, which is actually jack shit at all.

Then there was LulzSec, a concentrated organization of Anon members who focused their efforts towards "real hacking", and we all know how that ended,-- with arrests being made in the UK. So I don't expect Anon to try anything like that again any time soon.

**Frownland** · 01-19-2012, 06:01 PM

I feel as if SOPA/PIPA coincides with the 2012 doomsday conspiracies. Without their youtube, people are going to riot and we'll end up killing each other.

Mrd00d · 01-19-2012, 07:30 PM

Jesus Christ, this is the worst news I've heard all year. The day after the blackouts and everything. What the hell. And I agree, if mediafire goes down, I'm gonna cry, because it's the best thing out there.

I mean, this is what we're talking about. These sites have perfectly legitimate functions on the internet. They're just a place where anyone can upload/store files. An internet locker so to speak. Just because most people share the links to their goods and those goods happen to be music and what have you most of the time, doesn't mean they should be able to kill the whole site OR arrest anybody ESPECIALLY people in New Zealand! Bollocks

**Janszoon** · 01-19-2012, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrd00d

Jesus Christ, this is the worst news I've heard all year. The day after the blackouts and everything. What the hell. And I agree, if mediafire goes down, I'm gonna cry, because it's the best thing out there.

I mean, this is what we're talking about. These sites have perfectly legitimate functions on the internet. They're just a place where anyone can upload/store files. An internet locker so to speak. Just because most people share the links to their goods and those goods happen to be music and what have you most of the time, doesn't mean they should be able to kill the whole site OR arrest anybody ESPECIALLY people in New Zealand! Bollocks

Sorry to keep kind of playing devil's advocate here, but from what I've read there's actually more to the charges than simply running a site that people happened to have uploaded pirated content to. And they were arrested by New Zealand police.

01-19-2012, 05:10 PM	#51 (permalink)
Mykonos AWhatup Ganache? Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 381	Megaupload's been blocked due to SOPA attention before, I meant. The video in my OP mentions it, I think. __________________ 'Not that Becktionary, the Rhyming Becktionary!'- Bender Bending Rodriguez

01-19-2012, 05:11 PM	#52 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline Well that didn't take too long. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

01-19-2012, 05:22 PM	#55 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	I hope that the real hackers can dig up some information that in some way implicates threats made against the countries that were harboring the individuals who were arrested. Kind of like the threats made against Spain if they didn't pass a law similar to SOPA U.S. Ambassador Threatens to ‘Downgrade’ Spain over Online Piracy Laws \| Techland \| TIME.com __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

01-19-2012, 05:37 PM	#56 (permalink)
Mykonos AWhatup Ganache? Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 381	See, if those Anon kids knew what they were doing they'd take out the RIAA for good by just looking in their files and picking up all the evidence of corruption that's got a 90% chance of being stashed there. __________________ 'Not that Becktionary, the Rhyming Becktionary!'- Bender Bending Rodriguez

01-19-2012, 06:01 PM	#58 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I feel as if SOPA/PIPA coincides with the 2012 doomsday conspiracies. Without their youtube, people are going to riot and we'll end up killing each other. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-19-2012, 05:14 PM	#53 (permalink)
RVCA （￣ー￣） Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,270	Oh no! Watch out! Kids on the internet are sending large information packets at websites again! God, Anon are such useless basement-dwellers.

01-19-2012, 07:30 PM	#59 (permalink)
Mrd00d Stoned and Jammin' Out Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Northern California; Eugene, OR; mobile Posts: 1,602	Jesus Christ, this is the worst news I've heard all year. The day after the blackouts and everything. What the hell. And I agree, if mediafire goes down, I'm gonna cry, because it's the best thing out there. I mean, this is what we're talking about. These sites have perfectly legitimate functions on the internet. They're just a place where anyone can upload/store files. An internet locker so to speak. Just because most people share the links to their goods and those goods happen to be music and what have you most of the time, doesn't mean they should be able to kill the whole site OR arrest anybody ESPECIALLY people in New Zealand! Bollocks __________________ Mrd00d's Last.fm