Anonymous’ New Tactic: You Could Have Helped Take Down a Website — Here’s How
- Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:09am by
Liz Klimas
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The DOJ website was online again this morning.
On Thursday, Anonymous took down the Department of Justice website, among others, in retaliation to the file-sharing site Megaupload.com being taken offline. DOJ issued an indictment against the site and some of its founders for violating piracy laws and costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue.
While the attack on DOJ, RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), Universal Music Group and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) was caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Gawker explains that Anonymous is using “an evil new tactic” that tricked some Twitter users and those on Anonymous chat rooms into participating in the attack without their knowledge.
Gawker explains that as part of “Operation Megaupload,“ Anonymous distributed an ”innocuous” link that when clicked would cause people to unwittingly become participants in the attack. Here’s what happened according to Gawker:
The link is being shared widely on Twitter and in Anonymous chat rooms, often with no context except that it relates to Operation Megaload. I clicked it a few minutes ago because it was being spammed in an Anonymous chatroom and found myself instantly DDoSing Universalmusic.com, my computer rapidly pinging the page with no way to stop except quickly closing the window.
The link is a page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It link loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). When activated, LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic. Judging from a Twitter search, the link is being shared at a rate of about 4 times a minute, mostly by Spanish-speaking users, for some reason. (Here’s a link to the Twitter search, just don’t click the PasteHTML link.)
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This is completely evil and could lead to huge numbers of witless internet users inadvertently attacking, say, the Department of Justice by clicking a random link they stumble across on Twitter.
Here's an example of the link circulating on Twitter.
According to Search Security, a DDoS attack is when many systems attack one target by overloading it with communication requests that it cannot keep up with, forcing it to shut down. Gawker explains in a second article from 2010 that a LOIC can be used by people who “have no idea how to hack” by making it as easy as downloading the LOIC, inserting target information (like a URL) and attacking. LOIC has a feature called “Hivemind,” Gawker reports, which allows one mastermind to control the site to which all LOIC clients are targeting.
According to Gawker, a DDoS attack is a criminal offense with up to 10 years of jail time, should you knowingly participate. Gawker reports that before with LOIC, the user had to consciously click a button called “fire” to become a participant. With Anonymous’ link yesterday, just clicking the link and leaving the window open initiates participation.
Gawker states the safest thing to do at present is to avoid clicking Anonymous-related links.
As of this morning DOJ, RIAA and MPAA were all functional. Universal Music Group displayed a message on its site that it was undergoing maintenance.
[H/T Gizmodo]
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desertspeaks
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:31pmwhen tape recorders came out, the music industry went insane, it’ll kill the music industry. Then the music industry started selling music on cassettes, result, record profits.. When vcr’s came out, movie industry went insane, it’ll kill the movie industry. Then the movie industry started selling video cassettes, result, record profits.
Report Post »Yes with both recorders there was sharing of both mediums but in the long run it was a financial boon for both industries, when they finally embraced the technology.
The same can happen with the internet if they embrace and utilize the technology.
jaylew
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:44pmGood point….and I can say this with certainty…it WAS NOT the Federal Government who designed, developed or otherwise marketed these analog and digital recording devices for home or business use. It may have been an idea or spawned by military design development….which is the main reason why those that loathe the military so should simply lay down their cell phones, I-Pods, I-Pads and Mp3 devices down on the ground before them and begin to thank the God they don’t believe in either. But as is usually the case…..the private sector takes these devices and designs to new levels and places that stagger the mind. Oooops and yes Occupiers money is to be made from the digital devices you worship and can’t live without. The internet is no different than a device you can touch feel and see and hear…..except you cannot touch it, feel it or see it or hear it. Keep the Federal Government out of places in which it can only make worse. Perhaps figuratively or literally some of you might want Uncle Sam in your bedrooms so he can prevent you forever from getting sexually accosted or robbed? No thanks…I can protect myself…quite adequately.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:20pmAnonymous should be found and tried for treason but this DOJ will not do it-they are in on it.
Report Post »KyanWan
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:35pmYou really are out of the loop there, aren’t you.
Let me list some other people in history who should have been tried for treason, for resisting censorship, government brutality, tyrannical rule, etc… :
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, ….
Do I need to go on?
Anonymous is speaking out against oppression. Our nasty, hypocritical congress is doing exactly what the British did to enrage the colonists – my relatives – into speaking out and taking what action they could at the time.
Americans are standing up, speaking out – and taking what action they can in this time. They are exposing hypocrisy, challenging our leaders – and doing what Americans should be doing: QUESTIONING POWER.
Our government is horribly corrupt – if you can not see that, I suggest you TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV. TURN OFF YOUR TV.
End of comment.
Report Post »Wat Tyler
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:47pmTreason? That’s to laugh… The only traitors I see are the NWO Gestapos who are flagrantly violating the Constitution and moving us into a Soviet style police state by the hour…
Vive La Resistance!
Report Post »anonymous1134
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:25pmAnon Here, LOIC is an old tactic. Browser Loaded LOIC is an old tactic. I watched the entire thing unfold and here is what I can tell you.
> Anonymous if fighting oppression from a tyrannical Gov.
Report Post »>Anonymous is not a group of OWS Weebos who got suckered out of their money
>Anonymous Will Vote For liberty and freedom
>Anonymous Is NOT your personal army
>Expect us
TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 6:17amStepping back and looking at this in the context of all that’s happened under hippie government, I also have doubts as to whether anonymous actually is or if it’s theater to set up a premise for something in the future.
Like an OWS protest at the Whitehouse; They’re clearly partners, so the event is propaganda theater.
Report Post »neverfinal
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 3:44pmMaybe the DOJ will be in on justice when some smart hacker breaks in on them and puts out all of their evil dealings. When they send it all to Judicial Watch, they have tried forever to get their records through freedom of information acts. Their involvement with Fast & Furious and all the rest of the cover ups.
Report Post »Maybe someone really smart can get into Obama’s I phone. I bet they wouldn’t like it when it is turned on them. If they don’t uphold Justice, then they will suffer the consequence, won’t they.
jaylew
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:18pmHere is one thing that is certain…for every Federal Security Wonk playing whack a mole on the web sites and web links that have been determined to be “inappropriate”..there are countless non law enforcement geeks 5 miles ahead of the game. This is merely whack a mole at the speed of light.
Report Post »Take the show Criminal Minds….the bubbly little nerd Penelope Garcia accesses all of our high school transcripts in 5 seconds. Ummmm that is nonsense. Garcia shuts down cell phone and digital relay towers in 5 seconds. Ummmmm that is nonsense. Garcia scans every face in a shopping mall using the malls security cameras and she does this in 5 minutes. Ummm that is nonsense. Patrick Leahy, Harry Reid and now Chris “Hollywood” Dodd……are three old geezers who simply do not have a clue on what Uncle San can and what Uncle Sam CANNOT do with respect to controlling internet access or material. Here’s the deal..they can’t. Criminal Minds is a Hollywood construct…like Miami CSI is…if you believe that Uncle Sam can save you from the internet boogieman…then just stop locking your car doors and house doors too….because I mean after all…Uncle Sam can watch over you in that respect too. There is one thing bigger than Uncle Sam right now…..it’s called the Internet. All Uncle Sam can do is limit or block it..he CANNOT control it any more than he can control the rotation of the Earth. Not now at least…and probably never. Why would you let anyone convince you otherwise?
jaylew
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:29pmFor those who might construe my use of the words block or limit as some sort of actual control…..that is not control…..that is prevention. Something we can and should be doing ourselves. Digital signals can be transmitted by satellite or digital relay towers….so those of you with FIOS and Comcast Cable and Roadrunner…..yes your connection can be throttled and vetted and filtered to death and back. All that will do is make things slower..there is a price to be paid for each “handling” of a digital data packet. Do you all really want to go back to the days 56K phone modem speeds…just so someone somewhere can “check out” what it is you are accessing? And guess what? The entire time while someone is checking your internet world out…..the real snakes and criminals are using encrypted transport layers to successfully communicative that are so secure that only God himself could interpret. Of course that leave you skeptics out in the dark….again. But this entire internet thing is about a Federal power grab….it has no legitimate reality to it at all. It is Leahy like minded doofuses gone wild.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:15pmA DDoS attack only works so long as that ‘Ion Cannon’ lmao… is pointed at the websites. It’s not serious hacking or amazing computing skills going on, it’s the only weapon Anonymous seems to use against governments…… it’s like using a pea-shooter against an M-16. Well, the pea-shooter is effective if you happen to hit someone in the eyeball, s’bout it.
Report Post »KyanWan
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:39pmIt’s not serious hacking skills indeed –
however, it is empowering the less knowledgeable in a way that they can assist with the goals of anonymous – to support their means with what non-skill-based resources they can offer.
Your narrow view of hivemind and the way the IOCs are built – shows your non-knowledge on the subject. It’s a brilliant tactic.
Further – had said websites been configured properly, it would have been far less of an issue. Such is the PRICE OF OUTSOURCING.
( Hasn’t anyone asked themselves? Why aren’t these talented security people working for the people they are attacking? Why do we have a bunch of foreigners – who are loyal to foreign powers – running our IT? Yeah. Question government people. Question those at the top. )
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 4:36pmI‘m well aware that most code writers working for websites are second rate compared to the hackers sitting around out in the world which is why I don’t understand why they don’t … well I’ll leave it general enough to say do more damage than an attack leaving some websites temporarily offline. The gov. has means of tracking signals even if someone is using a proxy, using programs to bounce signal all over the planet, if they want to find you they will. So, it does make a bit of sense that these hackers only go so far to disrupt events temporarily… else some of them will find a similar fate to those members of anonymous that were picked up by the Mexican cartel down south or by Interpol in England.. etc. etc. etc.
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 4:40pmDavid took down Goliath.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:00pmConservatarion
Report Post »it is more focused because the more focused something is the more powerful. Anonymous could take down a site by them selves easily. The point of the LOIC is to use everyday people in the effort, or enlist other people to help cover for them. Now a days a low level hacker can be traced through the breach of the firewall of a federal site. That is classic hacking, LOIC uses rapid reloading this is not what people consider real hacking. Websites especially Gov’t website log who visits and how many times. If only a hundred people use the LOIC they can easily be seen when looking at the logs, Hackers can change the IP address but not that quickly. So if say a million people use it they can still be seen because until now it was a conscious effort to use it. But if people can start it by unknowingly clicking on a link, the Watchers don’t know who chose to break the law.
A Conservatarian
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:31pm@Goahead
Thanks for the reply and explanation of the LOIC and why it’s powerful :)
Report Post »Plan B
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:11pmIt is amazing. Yesterday they used th safeword REMEMBER, REMEMBER. This spread like wildfire on twitter. This is how they coordinate these attacks. Once started, the curious get drawn into these attacks with out realizing it before it is too late. SOPA scares me but so does Anon. This attack yesterday was not a hacking done by Anon, but was hatched by a small fry. Yet it still worked to bring down the public Sites for a time. This was a two hour attack. There is a “mass” work stoppage being planned using the same safe words, being spread by phone, twitter and other social media. I am not sure when this is going to happen. There is also a boycott being planned the month of March of all things hollywood. No going to the movies, no renting dvds etc. This one seems to be catching on. The guy I saw tweeting this has 40,000 followers. Even with these guys being small fries, they can do damage.
Report Post »conbones
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:55pmim in on the boycot only im going for longer than a month.
Report Post »down with the hollywood down with the fed!
Chappy123
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:10pmThis all may be the works of the left.
Just gives them more reason to control and/or shut down the internet.
Report Post »WithOutGodWePerishAsARepublic
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:56pmDear Kliz… please do your homework… the greater percentage of users are portuguese speaking …not spanish !!!!! Even with the small smapling you provided you can see that ????
Report Post »Xavier_Holden
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:27pmI am no longer supporting Glenn Beck. I have been a faithful listener, have bought all of his books, and have promoted him to friends, family, and strangers for years.
His stance on Newt Gingrich is 100% WRONG. Period. While I firmly believe Glenn is a great man, probably legendary in the future, he is now putting our country in jeopardy by denouncing Gingrich as he has been doing. It is irresponsible.
I am NOT a Gingrich supporter. I am an ANTI-OBAMA proponent. Does Glenn think that we are better suited with Romney trying to defeat Obama? Gingrich and Paul are the only two that stand a chance. Both of them have b a l l s.
Done with you, Glenn. You have lost it man.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:45pmPaul can’t beat Obummer. He cant get more than about 20% of republican support, do you really think he would get obummer supporters.
Santorum>Gingrich>Romney>Paul
Report Post »WithOutGodWePerishAsARepublic
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:49pmHave you not heard what he has said of Romney ???????? He is scared of Romney…he has called him a flipflopper(to put it lightly)aside from other choice names…my problem with Glenn is that he focuses too much on the negatives of the candidates not enough on the positives… We are not going to find a George Washington in the current group of politicians that is true… but, we can at least find something better then what we have right now !!! Love Glenn and what he does in informing people about our history and politics ..But, Glenn and Rush are basically the same …many words no action… I have just finished reading Being George Washington ..great book..But, Glenn … I have a question for you… what would George Washington do …stay in Texas with his show .. or throw his name into the race to save our Rep[ublic..you have the money..the connections…the name … will you be George Washington..or will you sit back enjoy your show and money …will the real George Washington please stand up !!!!????
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:59pmPaul the only one that can beat Obama. He takes Obamas votes, not Newt lol or Romney lol. What liberal is going to vote for them.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:00pmGo away and quit creating multiple avatars to spew the same crap, different day.
You are a loser, you will always be a loser and your ignorance is astounding.
Report Post »RejectFalseIcons
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:14pmGlenn can’t focus on the positives, because the candidate with the most positives is also the candidate with the least negatives: Ron Paul. By focusing on the candidate with the most negatives, the team at GBTV marginalizes Paul.
It is a fact that only three candidates have the money, fundraising capacity, and organizational framework built to support a general election run: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and Ron Paul.
What sites like this one have done is create a counterculture that is very much pro ron paul. Pressure makes diamonds. Never forget that. There is now a large, young, vocal audience that support Ron Paul and libertarian ideology – which means that there is now a large opportunity for an enterprising libertarian to harness that market by providing products that people want. A lot of people mistook GBTV for exactly this, especially considering that Glenn was Ron’s friend before he became a serious threat to the neocon platform that glenn and others are so enamored with.
Report Post »Smartiecat
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:20pmif you want to stay linked up when “War of the Worlds” hits, go old school and get a ham radio and a solar battery.This way while people are on their roofs looking for aliens and fema soldiers you will be in touch with the world. …just sayin
Report Post »TedPearson
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:34pmI’m already there.
Report Post »73,
KF5IMD
MarsBarsTru7
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:14pm1) Anonymous – Anonymous Internet crimes = Cowards.
2) Using Guy Fawkes masks – Guy Fawkes was a traitor and a terrorist. He was a British soldier that betrayed his own people to support Spain in the middle of a war. He was not an anarchist at all, hoping that his efforts would dispose of the British monarchy and help install a Catholic theocracy. He was captured while plotting to blow up what was a rare symbol of representative government in the world at the time (Parliament). For Anonymous to use a mask of Guy Fawkes is stupidly ironic.
3) “We are Legion” is a direct Biblical reference to the group of demons cast out of a possessed man by Jesus that possessed a nearby group of pigs that went crazy and ran off a cliff to their deaths. Again, it’s stupidly ironic for these numbchucks to use this symbolism.
4) “We don’t forgive, we don’t forget”. Again, a reference to Biblical scripture. Only this time, they reversed the original scripture in which Jesus tells us to forgive and forget.
The group Anonymous may or may not be well-intentioned. At times, they may do something that American conservatives and libertarians may applaud. However, they are not allies. Example: OWS participation for one. They are destructive, they are misguided, and they are a tragic product of the times.
Report Post »GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:01pmBlaze continues to help push the industry agenda of an extremely exaggerating a $500million loss. This is nothing more than wall st accounting to brainwash politicians.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:00amAnonymous is a group of script kiddies, and nothing more. They host web sites to give away hacked programs and collect money from Porn advertisers. This is the media trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
Report Post »There is nothing to fear from this so called group, any good “free” anti hacker software renders their whole platform usless.
computernerd2352
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:56amThis is exactly right. The software that they use looks like it was written by a high schooler. I could have written it better, and that’s saying something! If they were so powerful,or smart, they would have taken down the internal site instead of the public face of these websites. I wont get into all the details on how it works but it requires several points where the server has to either accept or deny the connection from the attacking computer. Deny the connection and the program crashes. Geniuses all of them!
Report Post »RejectFalseIcons
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:18pmThe program isn’t designed to cripple businesses. It’s designed to get headlines. Which it is very, VERY successful at.
Report Post »Demaslut
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:58amHEY YOU IDIOTS!! The president of the US is the biggest criminal in the country. Make him be law abiding. Then, go after others. that boy in the white house needs to be put in jail. along with his side kick holder
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:04amStarting a comment by calling everybody and idiot, might display your IQ more than anyone elses.
Report Post »I think everyone knows what is up and most of us will vote for their dismissal.
Demaslut
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:08amyo dude never said i was a genious…….
Report Post »MooseyStuff
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:44amYeah, that’s VERY apparent.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:54amThe government needs to get the he11 out of the Internet!
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:08amWithout government funding the internet would not be here. It was the universities, using govenment funds and grants that invented said internet. What we need is for the politicians to leave the internet alone. Of course the Democrats will not be happy untill it cost white folks 10 times more then it does now, and black people have free internet.
Report Post »Just calling it like I see it.
V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:53amI’m not helping them. They’re probably controlled and run by government agents anyway. Trying to lure dissidents into a trap.
They can do all the hacking they want. Alone. What do they need me for?
Report Post »Heather Mae 74
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:12pmSounds like another created crisis to give the government their power to censor the internet like the tyrannical governments in the middle east and Asia. Just like with healthcare also the liberals let enough of their congressional members drop support to make sure it won’t pass right now and the members who still are supporting it will still bring in lobby money from the Hollywood studios and the unions. They are going to step on the gas pedal to finish the progressive agenda after the election if they win.
Report Post »DogandPonyShow
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:51amMe thinks some of you missed the point of this. > “This is completely evil and could lead to huge numbers of witless internet users inadvertently attacking, say, the Department of Justice by clicking a random link they stumble across on Twitter.“ ”Witless” was the give-away for me. Mind control at it’s finest. I was gonna make a sarcastic post i.e. “What??? I can’t take down a Gubment site??? Say it ain’t so!!! What’s this world coming to!?! And who they calling witless???” Just saying…..
Report Post »raderby
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:45amShould someone tell “Anonymous” that all voice synthesizer programs put the ISP of the user within the code of the digitally constructed voice samples? Quite easy to track these morons…. they are “legions” of jerks. Lock them up – now. Wassup E. Holder?
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:01pmwrong! You can’t find out what voice it is, because there 10 or more diff voices all at once, so no they are more clever than you think.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:42amFrom listening to the messages from “Anonymous” they seem to think they are entitled to any rich person’s wealth. If they want to attack evil, they should look towards 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and attack every Obama campaign website.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:49amI hope they create some kind of silver bullet that goes back and damages a DDoS hackers computer, we need a way to fight back and punish these SOBs… these guys make hackers look bad and are acting like terrorists and childish fools, anyone willing participating with anonymous deserves some serious jail time
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:11amcapitalismrocks
Report Post »they do, it’s called the FBI
BurntHills
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:34amanyone remember your cities and towns [not in NYC] the afternoon of 9/11 ? how everyone was in shock and major phone lines were shut down? (and gas stations immediately hiked their gas from .99 gallon to $6 gal. Caseys* did that in IL.) how about remembering how the people stood around on roofs wanting to be saved in NOLA after Katrina (when they had had 3 days Warning to even WALK out. ) … anyone see the tom cruise flop “war of the worlds”? at the start, when all the cars and communications go dead .. yeah that is the CHAOS we can expect (minus the aliens). think of America hit by an EMP, with no phones,cars, tv or radio and yes… no internet.
those anonymous jerks are JUST AS BAD as the fuhrer obama government. they do not think AHEAD when they pull their stunts. obama is thinking 6 YEARS ahead as he plans for the mass murder of AMERICA.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:14amYou are giving this group way too much credit. Believe me if Annon could empty accounts, they would be doing it. They are not what the media is making them out to be. They give hacking a bad name.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:27amAs the individual pointed out in the related “report”. It is really great to have something like the Internet that can’t be controlled by big corporations, the wealthy and their stooges in government. The key ingredient for true economic freedom and thus a true free competitive economy is full information. Neither the wealthy nor the established large corporations really desire either and their investments in flooding the Internet and conventional media with false information and marketing BS reflect that. Notice that the Republicans, many who at first supported it, aren’t coming out against it, they are saying it goes too far. If you want to understand what is really going on, look into who is lobbying for it. Always follow the money.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:45amOK JROOK, I see the point, but, it kinda says that you songwriters… give up…. you can’t make a nickle for your songs and you other creative people who need mass distribution to succeed…FGITTABOUTIT!!! just because my design is on the web, does not mean that I should not be able to get what I need from its distribution.
Report Post »This IS a complicated issue that really needs clarification.
JRook
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:02am@Max jones actually for the truly talented and beginning artists exactly the opposite. They don’t need a corporate label to get their music out can make a lot of money touring now, because they get to keep most of what they earn. My kids use ITunes and the like to get quality versions of the songs they like. If you look at who is lobbying for the legislation it is not so much the artists but the established movie and music producing companies. The internet provided a mechanism for kids to obtain the 2 songs they like off an album without paying for the 8 they don’t like and the associated producer and retailer markup. Its a new business model and while mass piracy and distribution for money should be eliminated, sharing of music in one form or another has been around since the ’70s. This is more driven by the movie industry and again perhaps there is a need for an economic reset in terms of what actors and movie houses make. Similar to the reset that needs to occur in professional sports.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:23amWhat? Didn’t some people in Hollywood align themselves with the OWS, saying that rich people need to share their wealth? Now they don’t want to share their movies or music? Un-heard of.
Report Post »(sarcasm)
Darla_K
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:38amVery good point.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:20amUnfortunately it is crap like this that causes lawmakers to feel it necessary to make more laws to keep us safe, thereby reducing or freedom even more.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:21amor = our
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:46amAgreed, groups like Anonymous will bring about the very regulation they purport to hate. Its a classic tactic of the Left. Cause anarchy then swoop in with big government to rein it in.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:45amI wondered if this was not a “false flag” cyber attack which would incur blowback by regulatory agencies, thus bypassing Congress yet again. Certainly the Obama administration being in bed with both Google and Facebook make this possibility entirely possible as they have plenty access to virtual armies of hackers.
Report Post »LibsFIB
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:18amHack into obamacare and dismantle it!
RON PAUL 2012!!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:25amSomebody insert the link for Attackwatch into the LOIC.
Report Post »LibsFIB
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:17amEric Holder won’t be able surf gay websites now.
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Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:26amneither will obama.
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Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:16amI don‘t like the government shutting down websites and I don’t like Hackers shutting down websites. This is a major security threat. period.
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Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:28amWhat’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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