DDoS From 4chan Hits MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website 318
ACKyushu writes "Say what you like about 4chan; when they want something done, it gets done. Following a call to arms yesterday, the masses inhabiting the anonymous 4chan boards have carried out a huge assault on a pair of anti-piracy enemies. The website of Aiplex Software, the anti-piracy outfit which has been DDoSing torrent sites recently, fell victim to a DDoS itself. They were joined in the Internet wasteland by the MPAA's website, which also fell to a huge and sustained attack."
Re:counterproductive (Score:5, Informative)
Re:And now... (Score:5, Informative)
Seeing as the Slashdot editor/submitter were too lame to include links themselves, I'll give you all a hand at, um, investigating these fine websites.
Aiplex [aiplex.com]
MPAA [mpaa.org]
I actually didn't think the Aiplex site was correct at first, just because of how awful it is. Maybe they got into the "anti-piracy" business because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.
Re:And now... (Score:3, Informative)
MPAA is down for me and aiplex is still trying to load.
I'm in Canada though.
wrong target (Score:3, Informative)
wouldn't it be more efficient to target Aiplex's and MPAA's gateway so that workers would have difficulty to "work"? If they don't use their own websites, they might have not noticed at all.
Re:DDoS Software (Score:4, Informative)
Anything wrong with this?
Re:Knock It Off (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, the MPAA has been paying Airplex to DDOS torrent sites for some time now. In this case, Han really didn't shoot first. In effect, they DID legitimize the DDOS and so this is Anonymous saying "Oh, OK then".
Re:DDoS Software (Score:4, Informative)
There is something wrong with this: pings are being blocked. Substituting it with wget seems to be working just fine though.
Re:DDoS Software (Score:3, Informative)
Sorry about the chain of replies to myself, but mpaa.org seems to be blocking my IP after 440 successive wgets :)
Re:And now... (Score:3, Informative)
>>>mpaa.org site immediately got stopped by NoScript
Really? Noscript didn't flat anything. Of course I have it set for "temporarily allow top-level domains by default" and "allow 2nd level domains". Hmmmm..... I like where it provides a link to get TV shows/movies online legally including sites like Hulu and TheWB.com - worth bookmarking.
Re:And now... (Score:2, Informative)
Fail at web server administration.
Re:And now... (Score:4, Informative)
Me too:
mpaa.org went to mpaa.org/my.ip.add.ress
and that, resolved to a page that set a cookie. Once I allowed the cookie, it redirected my to a page that said:
"The page you are looking for is cannot be found.
Please try again later. "
(sic)
So, it's probably an attempt to deal with the DDoS. Either that, or my IP was geolocated, and there is no appropriate content...
RIAA being attacked next (Score:2, Informative)
A casual trip through 4chan's boards found an interesting tidbit. They are planning another assault, on the RIAA now. It is planned for Sunday. Finding the details on 4chans boards should be trivial for any slashdotter. Just trying to be informative.
Another important link (Score:4, Informative)
Interesting seems like 200+ people are in a chatroom coordinating this right now.
http://pastehtml.com/view/1b3tqp1.html
Re:And now... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:And now... (Score:5, Informative)
Seeing as the Slashdot editor/submitter were too lame to include links themselves, I'll give you all a hand at, um, investigating these fine websites.
Aiplex [aiplex.com] MPAA [mpaa.org]
I actually didn't think the Aiplex site was correct at first, just because of how awful it is. Maybe they got into the "anti-piracy" business because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.
Let's skip the web site design and just look at the content -- is this for real?
Aiplex has a blend of technology savvy & process driven dedicated team bringing about a paradigm shift in rendering customized solutions to its clients. We have steadily grown in reach and service offerings with a favorable cost-benefit ratio & keeping pace with the emerging business needs of our customers.
First - you're using "&" in the description of your business? Second, those sentences don't actually make sense...
Now let's look at the <title> element of the web page:
Medical transcription , Search engine optimization , AiPlex Software Pvt. Ltd. , MT & seo , Seo & mt , transcription services , medical transcription , medical transcription services , medical transcription work , medical transcription job , medical transcription company , medical transcription medical transcription karnataka , medical transcription india , medical transcription news , medical transcription offers , medical transcription company in bangalore , medical transcription company in india , medical , information , medical records , medical dictation , medical transcription night shift work , mt night shift job , mt work , mt jobs , mt careers , mt business , mt training , mt desk , mt daily , mt bangalore , mt india , mt 24*7 , mt company in banglaore , mt company in india , mt outsourcing , mt careers in bangalore , mt jobs in bangalore , mt hipaa regulations , mt hipaa compliance , out source medical transcription , aiplex , aiplex mt , aiplex mt bangalore , aiplex medical transcription , voice files , dictation , medical dictation , mt dictation , doctor voice files , patient record , patient charts , health care india , security in healthcare , security in medical dictation , Processing million lines a month , office based mt opportunities , home based mt work , home transcription , HT bangalore , aiplex home based benefits , mt career opportunities , aiplex guarantees 98.5 % accuracy , aiplex quality management system ensures customer expectations , toll free dictation , disaster recovery plan , attractive prize of 8cents per line of transcription , 360 degree machanism to deliver flawless transcripts , robust infrastructure for data back, data security & confidentiality , 12hrs turn around time ( TAT) , mt resume online , direct submission previlage at higher rates for HTs , enhanced benefits for enhanced targets , medical transcriptionist , proof reader , Quality analyst , Best MT company in bangalore.
Alas, though they boast "SEO" in their title among other things... a search for "medical transcription" on google doesn't turn them up (at least in the first page). The I'm not usually a fan of this kind of "justice", but in this case the web was a slightly better place for the duration of this site's outage.
On the other hand, if this is who the Bollywood (not the MPAA as TFS implies) employs to do their dirty work, then the only real concern is that torrenters will fall off of their chairs laughing. In the process they might collectively hit their heads on their power strips and take their dirty file-sharing systems offline.
On the third hand, looking back through the press coverage of Aiplex, I notice that the *only* person who claims that Aiplex is working with Bollywood is the owner of Aiplex. This hints to me that their rather successful attempt to bltiz the media with their name has backfired in the most extravagantly perfect way possible.
Re:counterproductive (Score:5, Informative)
You misspelled "the lulz".