HOLY FU- Anonymous is PISSSSSED!

[idarkphoenixi]

Meh, nobody cares....at least I don't. This is all anonymous ever do, a few ddos attacks. Ooooh big deal.


This is nothing but an inconvenience, each site will be back to normal in a day or two.What does it acomplish? Nothing. All it does it give people the impression that anon is nothing but a group of "cyber terrorists" and even more people lose support for their cause.

Wake me up if they do something more productive.

 

[Belated]

You have no idea how comfortable I am with this news.

Seriously, screw 'em. They have no right to arrest a web host over content other people put on his site. The service itself is legitimate, so he's not responsible for what users use it for. That's like if somebody made a bomb out of an Xbox and the police decided to arrest Microsoft instead.

Not to mention, megaupload staff bust their asses removing pirated content every single day. It's not their fault they can't keep up with it all. So yes, this news makes me happy.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Oh shit, Anon are causing a mild inconvenience to server admins.

[HEADING=1]Watch out people, looks like we've got some badasses in town![/HEADING]

 

[bkrockwell]

You know, i would actually respect the group Anonymous if they werent Anonymous.

They are wussies hiding behind their computers. There is a difference between revolutionaries and "terrorists"..... Revolutionaries dont hide in their mothers basement. Nor do they hide behind masks, but "terrorists" do.

I think you'll find there were plenty of anonymous revolutionaries throughout history who spent plenty of time in hiding (maybe even in their parents' basements). Staying anonymous has been a major part of various revolutionary uprisings, so it's hardly the 'difference between a revolutionary and a terrorist'. Besides, many people hailed as revolutionaries used the exact same tactics as people condemned as terrorists anyway; the lines can get fairly blurry depending on whose side you're on.

As for Anonymous, my problem with them isn't that they're operating anonymously; that's fine by me. It's that they're a bunch of misguided, hypocritical teenagers who can rarely explain why they're targeting someone without having enormous double-standards and numerous logical fallacies.

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

so this is how the internet dies...with thunderous keystrokes

 

[Byere]

Oh ho ho ho. This is very, extremely, positively interesting.

I'm totally hiding in the Internet bunker. Anyone else care to join me? We have cookies!

Cookies!?!?!?!

I am so there!

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Let me get a fiddle...
Oh, and could someone bring the Marshmallows, another the Graham Crackers, and the last one the Chocolate.

Tonight, we watch everything burn.

Well, if the US government weren't about to start punishing the masses before, they will now that Anonymous has struck them, and hard.

Hey I have a fiddle! Maybe together we can make this a good ol fashion shindig!

OT: Well damn, I was wondering where they were, not that I really wanted them to come out, but I was just mildly curious. This will be an interesting little fight.

I just hope I have enough snacks to last all this.

 

[Alssadar]

To Odin in Valhala, this is one massive shitstorm being stirred up.
And as having my first time of actually seeing Anon accounts, I am freaked out by the information they were able to get on Chris Dodd, its rather scary.

Oh, and all the music being posted is not only fitting, as well as supporting the situation that makes me feel happy.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Holy crap they took out FBI.gov website they mean serious shit!

megaupload come back prease :'( for the sake of us all

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Oh shit, Anon are causing a mild inconvenience to server admins.

[HEADING=1]Watch out people, looks like we've got some badasses in town![/HEADING]

Exactly this. I don't get the big deal people are making over it. Taking a step back and looking at it the websites will be back up eventually and they're not even important to running the organizations they represent. It'd be a bigger deal for Amazon if they went down. These sites though? Big deal, busywork for the server admins.

Indeed. It's the equivalent of a temper tantrum with just as much impact. We, as an internet collective did more for the internet in the past few days with the blackouts and such, than Anon will ever achieve.

They're even less relevant now than they were a week a ago.

 

[renegade7]

Don't much care about Megaupload as a site, what worries me is that the government could take it down BEFORE the law even passed...Megaupload actually does have legit stuff on it, and I really think that anonymous are just trying to paint them as like 'the beginning' or something.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

well Its about time Anon did somthing about SOPA..that kind of thing is right up their ally

perhaos this has been planned for a while

Of course you realize this'll probably ensure that SOPA gets fired through faster than a rail gun attached to a bullet train?

 

[Darren716]

Ok everyone to the vaults in 100 years our offspring can go out to the wasteland of the Internet and try to rebuild society.

 

[Section Crow]

something tells me that this is just a jog that's going into a run sooner or later...

eh, imma go watch the clouds for a while

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Oh shit, Anon are causing a mild inconvenience to server admins.

[HEADING=1]Watch out people, looks like we've got some badasses in town![/HEADING]

Exactly this. I don't get the big deal people are making over it. Taking a step back and looking at it the websites will be back up eventually and they're not even important to running the organizations they represent. It'd be a bigger deal for Amazon if they went down. These sites though? Big deal, busywork for the server admins.

Indeed. It's the equivalent of a temper tantrum with just as much impact. We, as an internet collective did more for the internet in the past few days with the blackouts and such, than Anon will ever achieve.

They're even less relevant now than they were a week a ago.

Well the only impact I can imagine is negative impact. No one in support of taking down Megaupload or the like is going to be intimidated into backing down. Really all it says is "Hey look, there's people who are getting away with vandalism", which would more naturally lead to the response "We should do something about them" instead of "Oh no, we better give in to their demands". Things like this is why I don't want Anon supporting the fight against things like SOPA.

I think the biggest annoyance is that people seem to be treating Anon as 'protectors of freedom'.

One sec, I'm going to go throw a brick through the window of the police station. Freedom and stuff.

 

[Smeggs]

I suppose there's nothing to do now but crack open the lawn chair, lounge around topside and watch as our virtual world is razed to the ground around us.

I was hoping that Anonymous would pull some crazy shit, but I was kind of expecting that something would be more useful than, "We've pulled informational sites for these following businesses down." If anything that'll just give the politicians more ammunition for SOPA.

 

[ecoho]

Cute. A website that actually does have a legitimate reason for being shut down due to piracy, one that was shut down for reasons within our current legal framework (without needing SOPA to do it.)

And Anonymous flips their shit. Seriously? They're actually building a case for future SOPA's with this action. They've shown we don't want to compromise, we want to PIRATE ALL THE THINGS~! Well if you don't meet the various developers/industries half way and give them a right to protect their investment, they're gonna push a thousand more SOPA's by the end of the day and take our rights instead.

ummm i think they are just pissed because the guy was arrested in New Zeland, which is by far the dumbest thing the US has done for awhile. Look i think they should have confiscated the US servers but ,and i hate to admit this, anon is right we should not be going after copyright law violators in other countries, i mean all that money wasted to do what? piss off alot of very powerfull people for no reason.(and im not talking about anon when i say powerfull people)

 

[AnotherAvatar]

I love how out of all of the things available to rage about, anonymous chooses trying to get revenge over a site that has always had the association of being a haven for streaming copyrighted material. To me, this makes anonymous a painfully hilarious band of dedicated idiots.

Not only that but they are gasp PROFITING off the consumers who want the ability to share copyrighted material. What Megaupload is doing is completely criminal.

It's not about what the site does, it's about fighting censorship. One site goes down, it sets a precedent that could put any site down...

Wake up.

With Megaupload gone, it helps fight SOPA since less of a threat (profiting off storlen- copyrighted
material) means less of a push from the industries that originally supported the bill.

Uhh... No. SOPA is about getting the power to persecute over-seas sites, such as Pirate Bay, hence why they were able to shut down Megaupload without SOPA or PIPA passing. Also, with a small bit of research you'll find that the a lot of the big companies pushing SOPA were actually the one's who not only released and spread piracy software, they also taught people how to use it through sites under their umbrella such as CNET.com and Download.com.

Basically: Those companies want control of the net, so that people will be forced to watch and pay for their shit rather than enjoying whatever they want for free, and SOPA is a way to secure that internationally because as we saw with Megaupload they can already do it domestically.

THAT is why Anonymous responded the way they did, and that is why I cheer them on, and why I encourage anyone who believes in freedom of expression and in the idea that money should be kept out of art to do the same.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Well the only impact I can imagine is negative impact. No one in support of taking down Megaupload or the like is going to be intimidated into backing down. Really all it says is "Hey look, there's people who are getting away with vandalism", which would more naturally lead to the response "We should do something about them" instead of "Oh no, we better give in to their demands". Things like this is why I don't want Anon supporting the fight against things like SOPA.

It's not necessarily WHO is supporting the "good fight" (depending on your interpretation of such), but HOW.
(It's amazing the difference those same three letters can make when they're rearranged a bit.)

I wouldn't mind having Anon's support if they actually put some rationality into their response, rather than resorting to their usual barely-contained nihilistic tantrums.

Tracking and delivering the ID and address of a pedophile: Good work Anon. A little underhanded and technically illegal, but I can appreciate the practicality of the work.

Taking down Federal Services because you still think V for Vendetta works in reality? Foolish foolish Anon.

 

[Romblen]

Oh look, Anon just DDOSs a couple websites. They must all be super l33t hackers.