Anonymous Exacts Revenge for Megaupload Takedown

Omnific One

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Nooners said:
Omnific One said:
That's actually unsettlingly quick response time from Anon. They are obviously gaining strength.
Yeah...that's not really helping.

If Anon could do some serious damage, then it labels them as potential threats and gives the gov't an excuse to police the webs.
Yeah, that's my worry.
 

Waaghpowa

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Oh heavens no, they took down a website. I suppose revenge is a dish best served cold.
 

Domehammer

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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

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Omnific One said:
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

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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

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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.
 

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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.
 

Akimoto

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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

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Ldude893 said:
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!

Baron von Blitztank said:
Well, Anonymous have now started to show up and DDOS the place.
Fixed that for you.
 

Sovvolf

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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.
 

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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.
Mumorpuger said:
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.
 

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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

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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.

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
Daystar Clarion said:
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

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*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

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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.
 

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The Random One said:
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.
 

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Zachary Amaranth said:
tony2077 said:
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.