Gene Simmons Declares War on Anonymous

[Eijarel]

I'm surprised to see this much division of opinions,
but i think is futile, they might at worst arrest and sue some of the perpetrators but it wont just go away, that is the "Mob" quality that hacktivists tend to be naturally defended by, since in the eyes of the large corporations and law firms, any internet user that has in the past obtained any sort of copyrighted material from an unofficial distributor is liable for lawsuit. (which is quite admittedly well over 80% of the internet population)..yeah good luck with that
on the other hand, neither group has anything to lose, quite admittedly i can already see this being used as a publicity stun.

 

[coldasicedrummer]

*Gene Simmons has alerted the horde*

Haha, favorite post ever.

My thoughts: Gene Simmons will learn that his skill is not enough to take on the Final Boss of the Internet, and we'll all go on about our business. (that's probably the nerdiest thing I'll ever write on here...)

 

[Space Spoons]

Declaring war on Anonymous is tremendously dumb. At most, you can unmask a few guys, maybe have them fined or sentenced with some jail-time, but that would only encourage the ones you didn't catch. Hell, even if you managed to shut down 4chan altogether, they'd only regroup somewhere else and start again.

Simply put, you can't take all of them. The Internet is just too big.

 

[PayneTrayne]

Good luck to him. I am getting sick of this "Don't mess with Anonymous" fear that so many people seem to feel.

Anonymous isn't invisible, if they deleted the internet then that would be that but is it worth it?

Well, the whole point of being anonymous is not having your face behind your actions, so technically they are.

Unless you meant invincible...

 

[dark-amon]

well so much for liking simmons, he sounds like a pretty big dick

He is a dick. All he has done the last couple of years is *****. 'specially about piracy.

 

[nerd51075]

I'd put my money on Anonymous. This will be good, though.

 

[xXDeMoNiCXx]

Anonymous is a coward who hides behind a computer screen, thinks he's a bigshot and goes out of his way to hack anyone who disagrees with him in the slightest cause it makes his imaginary balls fell big. I will personally laugh when this poser finally gets brought down, I don't care who does it either.

LOL
Please tell me you are kidding xD

If you are, ignore the rest of this post.
If you are not; anonymous represents the nameless, faceless, endless horde of people on the internet.
Most of anon will show support for the small part of anon, and for the most part, are harmless trolls.
That small part though, are more-or-less omnipotent trolls that can do anything they want with a computer.

I stick to my statement but think of it in plural form now.

 

[LogicNProportion]

I want to see anonymous crushed. They had their chance to become a force to be reckoned with. When I used to go to 4chan I tried to start a revolution. They had their chance, let's see 4chan shut down and Gene Simmons rape ever single one.

How could they respect you, when you obviously do not know of their rules?

One of the well-known, written, and followed rules of Anonymous is that Anonymous can not, and will not, rally behind a leader of any kind. They're kind of like Orks from 40k, and while this chain of command makes them impossible to kill off, it also makes it harder for them to rally to one greater purpose that could do some horrifying results.

Having a leader adds a face to Anonymous. Anonymous has a guy without a face/with a mask for a mascot for good reason.

 

[Socius]

Well, Simmons doesn't half-ass anything. I expect this to be a good show.

he is an ass however. Let me illustrate.

Everyone from Marxists to libererals agree that downloading music and such is a preferable choicefor the user and the enviorment! Hey, Gene, I download music, sue me. I also bougth 4 kiss LP's for my collection and heckif they where cheap. I go both ways when it comes to how I get my music and I am proud of it!

Lets not forget to the price of going to a concert!

Indeed, some of the prices are outragous! Iron Maiden is goi ng to play here next summer, the tickets are almost as expensive as jewelry.

 

[Absimilliard]

And for those of you who're keeping score: his website is still down.

 

[Malikk]

Oh snap! Quick somebody get Gene the internet butt hurt form!!

But srsly, this old man needs to stop this before Anon tear him a new one.

 

[Sean Strife]

Ok, so Gene Simmons said he's getting the FBI to investigate this... is he not familiar with the concept of proxies.

 

[Xanadu84]

I'm less critical of Anonymous these days. They are essentially the Internets pile of burning feces, used to smoke evil assholes out of there homes. Sure, they are absolute dicks in general, but Anonymous seems to direct that prickery against girls who drown cats for fun, women who taunt terminally ill girls, hustler Scientologists, and other people who are far worse then a bunch of pre-teen racist douchebags keeping their asshattery to an internet forum. And though all that, "Sharing is not stealing" bullshit is silly, Simmons is handling it in a way that borderlines on Trolling. I'm going to go with the self-justifying dimwits long, long before I go with the whiny, selfish bastard.

Also, I saw Gene Simmons, but accidentally thought Richard Simmons on first glance. And that was pretty funny.

 

[chinangel]

I don't like anonymous as they love to ruin people. However...Gene Simmons is becoming something of a dictator. So in this case, I'm backing ANON. The FBI and the Police (as far as I know) tend to avoid ANON because they aren't a bunch of idiots. they know their stuff.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

I vote to bring down 4Chan, WHOSE WITH ME?
Seriously, I think the RIAA is harsh, but they are how music artist make money. Their would be no music if their were no pay for the artist.

 

[Requx]

I kinda hope anon wins this. As much as kiss is good, and as much as what anon does is sometimes wrong...well their interests but they still do a whole bunch of great stuff and silence people I don't like. And here in Canada you can download free stuff legaly, which is what I love about Canada. So yeah...go anon!(btw I'm not /b/)

 

[Ampersand]

Ok i'll bite.....what is Anonymous?

 

[Wicky_42]

Gene Simmons doesn't take shit. We all know this. He's too big to fuck with. You don't dare fuck with him. If he says he's gonna do something, he's going to do it.

Bring out the pop corn, this is gonna be AWESOME!

Lol, someone on anonymous' side could say exactly the same thing with the name switched at the start ^_^

That said, I disagree with Simmons' stance to fuck up anyone and everyone's life for the petty crime of copyright infringement. If he wanted to 'save the industry', he'd advocate more money to the artists from their CD sales or wider support for independent artists. Piracy takes money from the publishers more than the artists (after all, you can't pirate 'being at a gig').

Also, yeah - he wants to get students sodomised. That's just not cool, no matter how you spin it. I'm sure he never broke any law in his life, not even one that wasn't being enforced and had no immediate repercussions that affected him. Yeah, sooo sure.

 

[Reagus]

Errrr, why is everybody in support of Gene Simmons and against Anonymous? It's my experience that Anonymous usually fuck people up who deserve it and can, overall, be a destructive yet positive community.

Yes, they may post disturbing pictures and spout off racism and, but they have found out people who throw dogs in rivers, put cats in bins, have sexual relations with dogs and put it on youtube, post youtube videos telling people to make a brain slushie, and made them all pay for what they have done.

Heck, just a month or so ago they got together and got an elderly war veteran thousands of birthday cards and presents because of a poster asking people to come to his party.

Gene Simmons is an overrated overpaid eejit who is supporting anti-piracy with his narrow minded view on the subject with him just caring about the money.

 

[Snotnarok]

This guy is a colossal moron, for many reasons