Anonymous Exacts Revenge for Megaupload Takedown

[Domehammer]

Probably was not best time to take down megaupload with all the tension recently. While I don't support actions taken to take down sights by Anonymous they can't be blamed entirely for actions. The government couldn't possibly have done a worse job at handling megaupload then taking it down on day of blackout protests. Honestly what were they thinking? Waiting even a week or couple of days but doing it after a protest of kind on 18th is just wow.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

That's actually unsettlingly quick response time from Anon. They are obviously gaining strength.

Or they were prepaired. You'd think with SOPA, there forces would be on high alert.

 

[Zedar0]

These attacks aren't from the actual Anonymous. Escapist writers, please ignore claims from those twitter accounts, as they belong to clones (the ANONYMOOSE IS LEEJUN variety as well, so even worse).

 

[ShadowKatt]

I'm not seeing how they're actually doing anything. The websites?

http://www.riaa.com/ Still up. I'm on it right now. Opening a new tab...

http://www.mpaa.org/ Also still up. Let's try another one...

http://www.universalmusic.com/ That one I can't seem to resolve, but that could just be a slow spot in the system.

So, a potential 1 out of 3 sites. I fully back Anonymous in just about anything and everything they do, however I'm not seeing ANYTHING here to suggest that they are actually DOING anything.

 

[Manchubot]

Not much can really be said about anon. It's hard to support or denounce them since it's like saying hurricanes are bad, or fire is good. Hacking is just as occurring as natural events/disasters and hacker collectives seem to be like the mother nature of the internet. All you can really do is just go about your day like it or not.

 

[Lunar Templar]

*facepalms*

what a useless thing to do :/

thanks for giving the SOPA fucks more ammo assholes

 

[Mumorpuger]

Why should we care about these guys? Where were they in stopping SOPA and PIPA?

 

[Akimoto]

I quote a man large in character and size: "Fight in the name of childishness!" I'm pretty sure that's what Anon is doing.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

The statement 'shit just got real' doesn't even cover it.

I think this song fits the occasion perfectly:
<youtube=WJDnJ0vXUgw>

SOPA will hunt you down for linking that!

Well, Anonymous have now started to show up and DDOS the place.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Sovvolf]

Well, please allow me to be the first here to say... -cough- "Ho not this shit again." I had enough of this last year and I don't think this kind of stuff is going to help anything. Specially at this moment in time.

 

[samsonguy920]

So the Feds go through legitimate channels to shut down MegaUpload and Anonymous does their usual inconvenient hijinks. *golf clap*

It's like watching the court jester trying to thwart an assassin.

Why should we care about these guys? Where were they in stopping SOPA and PIPA?

One wonders how many of them did anything to help raise awareness of SOPA or PIPA. Considering their track record, not much. They would rather sit on their hands and wait until the crap hits the fan, and then do their lame hacking shit.

 

[JaceArveduin]

Um, guys, think about it though, what if anon said the opposed SOPA, what would that really do? "The hackers oppose us! That must mean we're doing a good thing!"

Na, I figure this had moer to do with the fact they took down the porn than the upload site.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Just when I was forgetting them, they have to curse my mind again.

Though I dont exactly know what kinda accomplishment they thinkt hey made taking down Utah's judicial sit.

EDIT:

Just 'internet guys with nothing better to do'.

Sort of like Wikipedia yesterday.

Oh, wait:

Yeah... I dont think what Anon did is going to do really change any of those minds, unless soeone on the for side words it so SOPA/PIPA can hurt Anon and take them down.

 

[mega48man]

*RIAA's website just came up

this is pretty awesome that anonymous did this, it's a little batman. it's not just about retaliation to injustice, but devoting ones self to an ideal and make it a symbol. or maybe i'm just a little too inspired, w/e, still sounds awesome.

 

[scotth266]

Oh man, I'm SURE that the DoJ and the RIAA are totally cowering in fear right now, and are totally going to change their minds.

Oh wait, they're not. If anything, this will just make them more determined to pursue the matter, as well as arrest a few "hackers" while they're at it.

 

[cthulhumythos]

I keep thinking of that XKCD comic. "Anonymous tore down a poster put up... by the Department of Justice!"

nice avatar.

ANYhoo, this just seems particularly petty to me. I guess at least they're doing something... don't know how it will help anything though.

in possibly related news, the term 'lulzy' now fills me with equal parts annoyance and embarrassment.

 

[Innegativeion]

oh anon when will you learn your way of doing things doesn't help

Probably never, considering "anon" is kind of an amorphous body.

I've always imagined them as some sort of outer god made up of ones and zeroes. You've seen those outer ones before, right? all those limbs, eyes, and mouths. They must get confused sometimes. The most powerful of the outer gods in Lovecraft's works is called "the idiot god" sometimes.

...how very appropriate.

 

[ChaplainOrion]

What if the government DDOSed Anonymous? Would anyone else love to see that happen?

You wouldn't be able to do that unless you actually knew who the people behind the DDOS were, and in that case you could just have regular law enforcement deal with them.

Well we all know that Anon is has strong 4chan roots so I was imagining they'd DDOS that and play it off as another group pro-government.

 

[Azmael Silverlance]

These are just attacks out of desperation nothing will happen because of them. These arent websites we visit everyday and them being taken down for a short amount of time will not in fact do any real damage.

Take down amazon.com then you know...people will freak out and be scared. Because if you take a site like this that makes $ out of being online and available then people will pay attention.

Taking the departement of justice down does what? Piss them off and makes them shut down another site. Who wins in that exchange ?

 

[Hal10k]

What if the government DDOSed Anonymous? Would anyone else love to see that happen?

You wouldn't be able to do that unless you actually knew who the people behind the DDOS were, and in that case you could just have regular law enforcement deal with them.

Well we all know that Anon is has strong 4chan roots so I was imagining they'd DDOS that and play it off as another group pro-government.

You would be taking all the people who spend all of their time in 4chan and forcing them to migrate to other parts of the internet.

Good lord, man, consider the consequences.