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4chan targets MPAA, RIAA and Aiplex with DDoS attacks 
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4chan has been up to its old tricks again and has delivered a DDoS attack on the official website for the MPAA (Motion Picture of America Association) and Aiplex, a company which recently admitted it uses denial-of-service attacks to take down torrent sites.

TechRadar reported on Aiplex's denial-of-service confession earlier this month.

Obviously not happy with the way Aiplex is targeting torrent sites or how the MPAA is tackling movie piracy, mambers of 4chan were invited to use its 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon' on 17 September to target Aiplex and the MPAA.org.

The scheduled attack was fittingly called Operation Payback.

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The attacks worked, according to TorrentFreak, who notes that both sites were taken down and it was only until the MPAA moved to a new IP address that it managed to get its site up and running again.

Just yesterday, Operation Payback continued with the website of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) successfully targeted.


Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... z1061Cp2uY

Awww :lol:

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What ever happened to rules 1 and 2?

In the good old days it would have been "The elite hacking group known only as anonymous" or possibly "ebaumsworld did it".

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Reading that made me altogether too happy!!

You're right though JJ. 4chan do seem to be getting a little media savvy these days. Wielding an impressive amount of power though.


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okenobi wrote:
Wielding an impressive amount of power though.

A billion pre-pubescent kids and a few old men wearing pants on their head is indeed a force to fear.

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pfft, anyone can DDOS these days. if they were real pros, they would hack into their databases and change all the royalty payments to "$0", then rearrange it so it looks like coolface or EFG when zoomed out :P


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JJW009 wrote:
okenobi wrote:
Wielding an impressive amount of power though.

A billion pre-pubescent kids and a few old men wearing pants on their head is indeed a force to fear.

So wearing pants on your head is the new cool thing? well I better start.

I am not really in support of DDOS though I can not find fault with the targets on this occasion. ;)

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Amnesia10 wrote:
JJW009 wrote:
okenobi wrote:
Wielding an impressive amount of power though.

A billion pre-pubescent kids and a few old men wearing pants on their head is indeed a force to fear.

So wearing pants on your head is the new cool thing? well I better start.

I'd suggest, you know, getting a fresh pair.

Amnesia10 wrote:
I am not really in support of DDOS though I can not find fault with the targets on this occasion. ;)

I suppose once the MPAA & etc started using them themselves, they lost any right to complain. He who lives by the sword...

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So wearing pants on your head is the new cool thing? well I better start.

"cool" hasn't been cool since we were kids :lol:

And no, it's not cool. It's freaky. And I don't mean freaky in the cool way that Le Chic used to say back when they were the cool cats.

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Clean underpants or not I have decided that I am simply not cool enough to get away with that look. So I will not be going down that path.

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