HOLY FU- Anonymous is PISSSSSED!

[Ashannon Blackthorn]

Anon is essentially impotent in it's current form. So you took down the websites to the FBI? Big fucking deal. Oooo you took down a website... did you hamper their ability to do anything? no...

Essentially as far i can judge the government doesn't even view Anon as a issue. The minute they do, agents will start showing up at Anon members doors and if they American, they'll just vanish. If in a western country friendly to the US, they'll get extradited and then they'll vanish.

I find it amusing how much stock people put in the abilities of Anon.

News flash... the government has people working for them who could probably track down 95% of Anon members without breaking a sweat. They don't just care enough to bother.

I really wish Anon would do something fucking useful instead of essentially spray painting anarchist logo's on walls. Remind me a lot of the Occupy morons... good message, important as all hell, shitty delivery.

 

[Olas]

Tearing down a website is essentially a form of peaceful protest, all it really does is send a message.

I don't agree with anonymous but I think it's good to have people on both sides of the crazy spectrum to keep things balanced.

 

[Epicspoon]

DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING LEADING TO THE NEW MEGA UPLOAD! Avoid ANYTHING relating to Megaupload or Anonimous other then news sites! They will fucking infect you with the virus that sends DDoS!!!

Also stay the fuck away from PasteHTML links.

wait seriously? I just clicked on a PasteHTML link because I didn't know what it was, how do I know if there is a virus?! I DON'T want to send DDOS!!!

I just know this virus is going to cause them to accidentally DDOS a site they don't want to like anilinkz.

 

[Silenttalker22]

If you read the indictment report it shows that, while we've all seen the "link removed for copyright" on MU, they very knowingly took steps to allow the copyrighted infringement that every single one of us knows was their bread and butter. I loved free anime as much as the next person, but they were breaking the law, making a lot of money doing it and they knew it. The end.

The only contestable thing about it is the timing. The fact that the 2 yr investigation just happened to culminate a few days after SOPA started to dramatically fail says they used this attack specifically for their scheming, and THAT is what I have a problem with.

That and half-baked hackers who undermine the progress of one of the purest and most effective protests I can remember.

 

[Rainforce]

lemme guess: people now want sopa back to stop all this? Well done, anonymous.
(I really liked them when they were LESS stupid some time ago)

When was this? I don't remember it.

Good point.
maybe I've just grown up a bit

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

I honestly wonder about what kind of positive things these guys could do if they put their minds to it.

Probably not much. I don't think I've ever heard a story about anonymous 'hacking' that wasn't basic script kiddie stuff. The only companies they have had any success against were ones who's security was run by morons, and even then they had to get a girl to act cute and ask for the password, instead of actually cracking it.

agents will start showing up at Anon members doors and if they American, they'll just vanish. If in a western country friendly to the US, they'll get extradited and then they'll vanish.

Uh the US isn't Argentina, we only make foreign nationals disappear.

If you read the indictment report it shows that, while we've all seen the "link removed for copyright" on MU, they very knowingly took steps to allow the copyrighted infringement that every single one of us knows was their bread and butter.

What steps did they take? Other than "well they didn't aggressively search the entire database over and over and over for any minutae that might represent copyright infringement."

I loved free anime as much as the next person

Who's the next person? Because it certainly isn't me.

but they were breaking the law, making a lot of money doing it and they knew it. The end.

So you're also for taking down Switzerland's entire banking system then, I take it?

 

[deadish]

OMG this is the biggest news ever!11!!

Anon shut down a few websites and NOTHING IMPORTANT has changed!!!

 

[Dandark]

Anon has kinda messed up here since now people will panic and the goverment will have an excuse for even more crap like SOPA.
Although I can hardly blame them for wanting to do something, I was also pretty pissed since I used megavideo a lot to watch anime.

 

[kyle_silver]

I say...Good job..And Solo-wing...Awesome Avatar...I love Latias.

 

[Akimoto]

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!

Are they chocolate?

OT: If there really erupts a cyber war more than just defecation will hit the oscillation. I wonder what will happen next. More draconion laws? If Anon wins - Internet back to pre-Mega state - I will not eat meat and will not drink soft drinks for 4 months. Sorry Anon, your opponent seems more ready and larger

 

[masticina]

Well lets see The MPAA/RIAA wanted to create laws that would make it easy for them to just point and *pop* gone website..

.. Worse then the DMCA indeed..

And guess what the people who don't have access to lobyists and can buy whatever law they want.. well they have other tools. If they might not have one harpoon they have a thousand of needles... just as effective in the end.

MPAA and RIAA wage war against the internet.. guess what war goes both ways.

 

[Lopende Paddo]

Are they doing anything other than DDoSing, or are they actually doing anything that will actually require cleaning up? It'll be interesting to see if they actually manage to do lasting damage to any of those sites.

I'm pretty sure that all the people with personal files on megaupload care... and that's alot of people. pictures, home made music, small business backups etc. are now all in FBI custody.

that seems like a major infringement of personal data to me...

go ANON

 

[Baradiel]

To the people saying "all Anon wants is attention": DUH.

Huge news organisations which ordinarily may not have given the smallest shit about Megaupload being taken down and people arrested, have noticed when those sites were taken down.

"It's only DDOS attacks! They were only down for an hour or so..."

What were you expecting, actually hacking? It's symbolic. Its getting attention.

"This has nothing to do with SOPA"

It has EVERYTHING to do with SOPA. If the US Government can close down foreign sites and arrest foreign nationals on foreign soil, why the FUCK do they need the blanket powers of SOPA?


Go Anonymous. Your actions bring this story to the public awareness, where it should be.

 

[mParadox]

Only if there will be cuddling.

Of course there will be cuddling! It's a silly thing. No cuddles, my word.

 

[deadish]

Go Anonymous. Your actions bring this story to the public awareness, where it should be.

What you think the public will see:
"Hackers fight back in protest of SOPA and for internet freedom!"

What the public actually see:
"Criminal hackers strike again."

 

[juraigamer]

This is a war I'd be willing to fight for, were do I sign up?

 

[M-E-D The Poet]

This is a war I'd be willing to fight for, were do I sign up?

with people like this walking around I wonder how long it will take for people to intentionally plunge themselves into being part of a ddos swarm

 

[XSin]

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!

Sorry, I have cookies disabled

 

[samess1997]

I'm coming down to the internet bunker! I brought muffins and guns! Who wants one?