Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates

thelostagency writes "Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software says his company is being hired by the film industry to attack online pirates. He says if a provider did not do anything to remove the link or content hosted on its site, his company would launch what is known as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the offending computer server. From the article: 'Kumar said that at the moment most of the payment for his company's services came from the film industry in India. "We are tied up with more than 30 companies in Bollywood. They are the major production houses." As for Hollywood films, he said they, too, used his services.'"

Re:Really?

[seeker_1us]

Is that an English or Metric fuckton?

Re:Er,

[halowolf]

Just ask "What would Batman do?".

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, and here I was measuring these things in sh*tloads, now I have to rescale them to fucktons? And to think, it all started as only a few dangstroms wide.

Re:What could possibly go wrong.

[lgw]

If you're being passed on the right, move to the right!

Ahh, Boston driving! Better advice would be "after being passed on the right, move to the right!".

Re:Spammers as well as script kiddies.

[colinrichardday]

Aiplex Founded in 2003 provides net Vigilance services & is a leading provider of Windows-based Network Vulnerability

Doesn't Microsoft already provide that? Or did I fail to distribute over the ampersand properly?

Re:Cool, now we can measure the effect of piracy.

[CarpetShark]

Let's see a graph of how their earnings went up during the attack.

Here's one they made up earlier:

http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/hq-graphcopy2_800.jpg [venganza.org]

Re:Really?

[koiransuklaa]

There's good reason behind moving to fucktons. The relative ambiguity of shitloads made life difficult for everyone: Are we talking imperial shitloads, naval shitloads, long shitloads, short shitloads... measuring loads of crap used to require an expert, now anyone can do it!

Re:Really?

[Thanshin]

Is that an English or Metric fuckton?

Metric.

The imperial equivalency is: 1 metric fuckton = 2204 fuckpounds

Re:So like

[Pikoro]

So you lack the .. you know .. words to be able to effectively choose a nickname? :)

Re:Really?

[dkf]

Is that an English or Metric fuckton?

It must be a Statute fuckton, as a Metric one would be written "fucktonne".

Re:Actually, here it's even worse

[Jurily]

it could cause a grandma somehwere to die, just so the fuckwits can annoy a file sharer.

And then they'll sue her [google.com].