While they’re back online now, for a while there, both the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America’s websites were under DDoS attacks from piracy-lovin’ 4chan members.
What caused 4chan to focus its attention on these two sites? In the MPAA’s case, it was after an Indian anti-piracy company’s CEO boasted of attacks on The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites. The company, which kickstarted the ill-feelings between both sides (or just further elongated the animosity already felt), AiPlex Software, was taken down first for 18 long, long hours. We know how you feel, guys. [TorrentFreak via Defamer, Wired UK]
Ash
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 10:45 AMkudos to the 4chan guys!
in all honesty, the MPAA and RIAA annoy me just a little. the proposed cost of piracy, as stated by both these organisations makes up approximately… i think it was 0.1% of their anual profits… and yet they fail to take into account that the albums and movies that were most pirated were actually the ones that were most purchased legitimately as well and that as the levels of distrobution of the illegal pirated versions of the aforementioned albums increased, so too did the cd sales. *sighs*
yes piracy is illegal, but the MPAA and the RIAA need to get off their high horses here, 0.1% of a couple billion may seem like a lot of money, but its 0.1% people… come on…