Anonymous Exacts Revenge for Megaupload Takedown

[Superior Mind]

Anon has my full support. And possibly my serial, and regiment number on this. I absolutely detest the conditions in which megaupload was taken down, what the hosts are having to go through, and the fact that the US of all places decided to shut down a domain located in Hong Kong... Part of me hopes China will be overly mad and retaliate. Possibly with nuclear fire. At least the internet will be safe from the United States of Facis- I mean world polici- I mean freedom hate- I mean America. Sorry, long day.

See this is the sort of thing I can't stand, (sorry to pick on you Robert, I just picked your comment out of a number of them.) Megaupload has always been pretty much a front for piracy. Kim Dotcom and his lot get people to pay them for a service that essentially lets them download shit for free. Sure it poses as a legitimate file sharing service but let's not play dumb here, we all know what Megaupload is for. Dotcom sure did, that's why he took such a piss-poor stance on policing his own service - he knew what his customers payed him for and as long as the money kept rolling in, (and it did big time judging by the monstrosity in Auckland,) he was quite happy keeping it up. Now he's facing the music. I have no idea whether current legislation is strong enough to convict him of anything or get him extradited but as far as I'm concerned he's a criminal - I'm saying that based mostly on his history.

Anonymous reacting the way they did isn't a surprise given the high emotions brought on by all this SOPA stuff - but it's not anything against SOPA. This is just against the falsely perceived right among so many that they should be able to download whatever they want for free. The rest of them are just caught up in the emotion of it all. They have mistakenly assumed that the Megaupload thing has anything to do with SOPA. It doesn't. The recent take-down of Megaupload is the result of an operation that has been going on for over a year. It is the result of a lengthy criminal investigation, not a company lodging a copyright complaint. As for Megaupload it is a multinational company, it may be technically based in Hong Kong but it operated from everywhere including the US in which it had servers. An indictment was filed in the US, Dotcom was arrested by New Zealand police he is currently in the New Zealand court system. He has been charged. There is nothing unjust about this and there is nothing unjust about the take-down of his network while this is going on. If you arrest someone for operating a front distributing illegal material you don't let them continue operating while they are being put through a criminal trial.

I don't expect anyone conducting DDos attacks to understand the intricacies of the legal system or even the details of what is going on - which is just one more reason they should back the fuck off and learn a thing or two before acting like spoiled children. They're not doing anyone any favours here, least of all themselves.

 

[Adfest]

Take that, Utah Chiefs of Police Association! You can take our lives! But you can never take... umm... our umm... someone help me out here...

 

[Caverat]

Wow, members of anon must feel like some kind of badass in their mom's basement or something. Cyber-terrorism is still a form of terrorism. Hopefully they'll find some of the folk responsible and stick them with the prison sentences they so obviously deserve.

They aren't even vigilantes, just twatbags. Vigilantes in this situation would be finding a way to restore MU and its sister sites, what anon is doing is just criminal and utterly meaningless like everything else they've ever done.

This situation with MU, even SOPA itself, cannot get enough 'First World problems' pictures featuring it.

 

[Eiv]

I used to support Anonymous ... then i took an arrow to the knee ...
It's pretty obvious that the feds aren't ever going to decide to make things better because of what anonymous is doing, I never expected it to be like that. But I had always hoped their efforts would be enough to start getting other people involved. But now that we've done that, with the blackout and occupy and everything, I just think they sort of get in the way now ... we need more protests, but not from them, not anymore.

Fixed that for ya

 

[DarthFennec]

I used to support Anonymous ... then i took an arrow to the knee ...
It's pretty obvious that the feds aren't ever going to decide to make things better because of what anonymous is doing, I never expected it to be like that. But I had always hoped their efforts would be enough to start getting other people involved. But now that we've done that, with the blackout and occupy and everything, I just think they sort of get in the way now ... we need more protests, but not from them, not anymore.

Fixed that for ya

NO.

 

[Svenparty]

I doubt they can execute this plan for a noticeable amount of time, Also a vague "don't worry about your details citizens!" doesn't make them taking people's credit card numbers any more safe.

 

[Gplars]

ooh hi anon

 

[Snotnarok]

So...

Anon does nothing to show it's backing of SOPA but when a file sharing website gets taken down 'it's on'?

I think it has something to do with the fact SOPA 'was needed to protect their products' then they can get the government to turn around and take down the biggest fileshare website and hunt down EVERY member including the ..graphic designer.

Why did they need SOPA then? Besides to take over your life.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

I can't feel bad for Megaupload if it manages to let $500 million worth of copywrited material on the site. It's their responsiability to enforce their no unatherized copyright material rule on their site to begin with.

Now how to do that with such a large amount of users per day is something they should actully be thinking about since clearly the current approach did not work. I do think it's reasonable to take the site temperaly offline in extreme cases but if the feds do it for you then I think you hardly can say you tried.

Now, maybe we can think of a few alternatives to prevent this in the future, hmm?

 

[Radoh]

I really do hope people realise that if they take down a site, they didn't hack into the mainframes or take control of the computers there.

What this is is some random guy running up to a building and putting a padlock on the front door barring entry until the guy with the bolt cutters shows up.

 

[personion]

Whaaaat!?

Why!?

MegaUpload was blatantly breaking the laws of piracy and the feds were just doing there jobs. If they were protesting because of SOPA I could understand, but SOPA is on hold indefinitely, so what's the problem!?

Honestly, it seems like they're just lashing out to say "oh hey, we're anonymous, we're so cool, let's take advantage of this situation!"

 

[jawakiller]

Oh boy, Anonymous. They're extremely relevant and responsible. I can't think of a single thing they have ever done that could be misconstrued as an offensive or mean spirited action.

Okay, I'm done. I think it's funny how seriously they take themselves. I wish I could say they're a badass terrorist organization out to restore freedom to the U.S but they're not so lets not kid ourselves.

 

[ShadowKirby]

How brave of Anon to give support to some rich fraudster.
http://gawker.com/5877873/anonymous-rallies-behind-plight-of-greedy-fraudster-millionaire

 

[Nemu]

While I'm normally not a big fan of stuff like this, I'm amused/glad that they attacked the MPAA and RIAA.

Sadly, it will bite the rest of us in the butt, but it's a solid point made: Don't p*ss off the nerds, moneybags.

 

[him over there]

Way to go Anonymous, you did something totally insignificant for your cause but gave your enemies way more propaganda ammo to use against the masses in the form of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

[Eveonline100]

You know attacks from anonymous really tend to confuse me the question i have is what do they expect to come from this its not like the FBI are going to stop what they are doing over a few websites being taken down. Yeah it'll most likely cause the DOJ to have to spend a few days getting there website back up but it is still just a petty annoyenice to the DOJ. Its not like this does any thing to harm them or disruptes their day to day operations. On top of that excatly what do they expect the DOJ to do if i had to make a list of organzations that can be imtinated the DOJ and wouldn't apper until maybe the Top 100 right above the NSA and below the CIA.
As for the companies I guess its hurting them but no more than say spray paint a goverment building with the words "house of liers" organzastions and company do conduct busniess over the internet, in person, or over the phone a website really won't hurt them. On top of that these are multi billion dollars companies i don't this will even make a dent in there bottom line and lets be honest that really the only these companies care.

So the question i have is this how is this effective since this is equal to say me throwing paint on a senator yeah is harmful to said senator's image but in the long run the only thing it accomplished is getting me introuble with the law.

 

[Epona]

You know attacks from anonymous really tend to confuse me the question i have is what do they expect to come from this its not like the FBI are going to stop what they are doing over a few websites being taken down. Yeah it'll most likely cause the DOJ to have to spend a few days getting there website back up but it is still just a petty annoyenice to the DOJ. Its not like this does any thing to harm them or disruptes their day to day operations. On top of that excatly what do they expect the DOJ to do if i had to make a list of organzations that can be imtinated the DOJ and wouldn't apper until maybe the Top 100 right above the NSA and below the CIA.
As for the companies I guess its hurting them but no more than say spray paint a goverment building with the words "house of liers" organzastions and company do conduct busniess over the internet, in person, or over the phone a website really won't hurt them. On top of that these are multi billion dollars companies i don't this will even make a dent in there bottom line and lets be honest that really the only these companies care.

So the question i have is this how is this effective since this is equal to say me throwing paint on a senator yeah is harmful to said senator's image but in the long run the only thing it accomplished is getting me introuble with the law.

Well, what would you suggest they do? If they did anything violent you would, no doubt, condemn it. Taking down websites is making a statement. It isn't about how long it takes to get the site back up, it isn't about affecting huge change, it's about making small but numerous statements of protest.

What would you do to protest if you disagreed with the government taking down a website?

 

[spartan231490]

can't these whiney children do something productive? I'm so sick of hearing about these idiots that I can scarcely speak of them.

 

[Cyberjester]

Related, Filesonic is now down.

Anon are a touchy bunch, and my views on them are also touchy. It's hard to support a "group" of people whose goal is moral but methods are childish.

Anon is everyone, or in this case everyone with access to a DDoS tool. Very badly designed tools, but they work. If no-one decides to go /b/ mode because they're all on Kotaku, RPS, Escapist, etc, then a DDoS won't happen. Unless they've got nothing better to do, Yahtzee hasn't released a new vid and their collection of porn is barred from them.