*hugs tight* We shall survive! We will live! We reach the end of this dark, horrific tunnel.Nouw said:Hold me >.>. I don't want to dieeeee.
*hugs tight* We shall survive! We will live! We reach the end of this dark, horrific tunnel.Nouw said:Hold me >.>. I don't want to dieeeee.
One of the only rules here is not to go in the basement...Nouw said:Wait, doesn't the Escapist have the basement for such events? *Hides.
I really really hope so too. I kind of half expect something drastic to come of all this. I hope my fellow citizens don't get dragged into it too, and end up having to pay for what our leaders are doing.J-dog42 said:Let me just say this. I love to watch the world burn as much as the next man. The thing that pisses me off right now is that a few of those arrested are New Zealand citizens. If the American government tries to extradite New Zealand citizens for a crime committed on NZ soil, to be punished under US law, I will be pissed. Imagine if we tried to do the same thing to an American. They wouldn't have a bar of it.
One day those dickheads in Washington are going to take it a bridge too far. I sincerely look forward to that day and I just hope that the innocent American people don't have to suffer for their ineptitude.
As I understand it (could be wrong) Denial of Service (DoS)is when someone floods a site with so many people that it breaks. Anonymous send out the call, supporters bomb website, firewalls crash and it goes down. Please correct me if I'm wrong I don't wanna look like an idiot.JasonBurnout16 said:Geez let me into those bunkers I dont think it's going to be safe out here much longer.
On topic though, I have always found Anon's attacks quite intriguing. They are like a car crash happening right before your eyes - you can't do anything to stop the two obstacles colliding but neither can you look away! It's that interesting.
However I question the sites they have taken down. None of the sites mentioned make any money from their being up and running. It might make more of a statement to take down sites that make money as that will make them noticed.
Oh and can someone tell me what DDOS'ing means? Please and thankyou.
LET ME INTO THE BUNKER!!
Mega Upload had a strict policy regarding copyrighted material and took down videos flagged for infringement very quickly. Of course if someone uploads a file and names it so it looks like someone smashed their keyboard with their face then it'll take a bit longer to track down or for someone to report it, but we're seriously going to blame them for that? Mega Upload was one of the main resources for people hosting mods for PC games so now a lot of mod databases for a lot of our favourite games just got fucked over. But ya know, let's forget the fact that A LOT of legitimate people just got fucked over out of backed up data/mods and subscription costs (like a friend of mine who just bought a 6 month subscription) because herp derp get dem evil pirates!Jack the Potato said:Anonymous is mad the government shut down a site that pretty much does NOTHING ELSE but stream copyrighted material? ... Megaupload was lucky it lasted so long, and NOBODY should be surprised it's been shut down.
Distributed Denial Of Service(DDOS)AttackJasonBurnout16 said:Oh and can someone tell me what DDOS'ing means? Please and thankyou.
Its like a million people customers barging into McD's and ordering the same thing at the same time from the one person tasked with serving... He just stands there stunned and speechless.karloss01 said:Distributed Denial Of Service(DDOS)AttackJasonBurnout16 said:Oh and can someone tell me what DDOS'ing means? Please and thankyou.
"the intentional paralyzing of a computer network by flooding it with data sent simultaneously from many individual computers"
its like everyone trying to download the latest game off steam, bringing the whole service to a snail's crawl or outright halting the distribution.