Thread: Anonymous Drops DOJ, MPAA & RIAA webistes

Originally Posted by N-Ur-Face

Anonymous has proven they know what they're doing when they try. Shutting down government websites for a temporary lapse is nothing. They know how to get in and, once you're in, it's not that difficult to keep it down. Especially with multiple people able to help in tracing around and keeping whoever is trying to keep you out guessing.

Yeah, I think that it sends a pretty powerful message. Rather than lie down and take abuse for fear of greater abuse, more people should be showing that they're willing and able to fight back.

Originally Posted by RAWRKITTY

If they can reach DOJ email then DOJ Sysadm's need shot and fired. Assuming they follow the same guidelines the majority of the Govt. does, that would be a dangerously deep break in. As much publicity as these site take downs get they don't really accomplish much because by and large very little traffic really goes through the website. It looks really important because the only part of the various organizations that the public can see...but most of the actual govt. people in that section won't be on the site much.

I do agree with them in spirit though. I know the article mentioned that they were targeting some record companies and whatnot, personally thats who I'd be fucking with. The people that started the whole thing.

Yeah, but the Record companies are supposed to be working for their own interests. The public servants in congress and the DOJ are supposed to be working for our interests. I don't blame the record companies for acting like dicks, I blame my elected officials for ignoring the will of the people and complying with the dicks.

Theres still plenty of other sites that provide the same services megaupload did.

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Originally Posted by WickedTribe

Yeah, but the Record companies are supposed to be working for their own interests. The public servants in congress and the DOJ are supposed to be working for our interests. I don't blame the record companies for acting like dicks, I blame my elected officials for ignoring the will of the people and complying with the dicks.

Not disagreeing with the idea behind it, I just think the attacks are going to have more negative effects than positive. You can bet your ass the majority of these hackers are american, and they would all be using foreign proxies and websites and whatnot. SOPA would give USG more authority to blacklist these sites because a large portion of them have acting cracking communities, as well as hacking commnuties. Meaning they are the people that actually steal your high dollar programs and then crack them to allow the public to use them via key gens.

While I 100% agree with the sentiment I just see more harm than good coming from this particular avenue of attack.

Originally Posted by SmokenScion

So Opportunity and Technology are to blame?

Judge: 17,000 illegal downloads don't equal 17,000 lost sales

Good article. The judge even had a bit of common sense. Thats what surprised me.