Anon is Legion: 4chan DDoS Shuts Down RIAA, MPAA

By Steve Burke Published September 21, 2010 at 11:14 am

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The rule we all know and love: 4chan is not your personal army... unless your goal is to disable the RIAA and MPAA - both known for their aggression toward piracy. The MPAA hired Aiplex Software, an anti-piracy firm, to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against torrent websites allegedly infringing on copyrights. 4chan, in its stalwart humility and irony, turned the tides of battle and sent forth their own digital wave of attacks against the MPAA's contractor. Anon's response is quoted below.

How fast you are in such a short time! Aiplex, the bastard hired gun that DDoS’d TPB (The Pirate Bay), is already down! Rejoice, /b/rothers, even if it was at the hands of a single anon that it was done, even if ahead of schedule. now we have our lasers primed, but what do we target now?

We target the bastard group that has thus far led this charge against our websites, like The Pirate Bay. We target MPAA.ORG! The IP is designated at “216.20.162.10″, and our firing time remains THE SAME. All details are just as before, but we have reaimed our crosshairs on this much larger target. We have the manpower, we have the botnets, it’s time we do to them what they keep doing to us.

REPEAT: AIPLEX IS ALREADY DOWN THANKS TO A SINGLE ANON. WE ARE MIGRATING TARGETS.

Torrent advocates reported that MPAA.org had been denied service within minutes, shutting it down for a reported 18 hours, with RIAA's website soon following.

Whether or not you agree with piracy, we've all learned one thing this past weekend; if nothing else, Anon is Legion.

-Steve "Lelldorianx" /b/urke

Last modified on September 21, 2010 at 11:14 am

Steve Burke

Steve started GamersNexus back when it was just a cool name, and now it's grown into an expansive website with an overwhelming amount of features. He recalls his first difficult decision with GN's direction: "I didn't know whether or not I wanted 'Gamers' to have a possessive apostrophe -- I mean, grammatically it should, but I didn't like it in the name. It was ugly. I also had people who were typing apostrophes into the address bar - sigh. It made sense to just leave it as 'Gamers.'"

First world problems, Steve. First world problems.

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