Internet Blackout

And the cyber wars continue. Omegaupload was taken down today. Anonymous is looking for revenge. Lol.

http://gizmodo.com/5877679/anonymous-kills-department-of-justice-site-in-megaupload-revenge-strike

So far they're bragging about the department of justice being taken down, which it has. Now they're working on other government websites. All according to their live updates to their twitter account this very second.

Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today's federal bust of Megaupload riled 'em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov (and plenty of other foes) leaving them completely dead.
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com is reporting the department's site as universally nuked, and an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account is boasting success. This is almost certainly the result of a quickly-assembled DDoS attack—and easily the widest in scope we've seen in some time. If you had any doubts Anonymous is still a hacker wrecking ball, doubt no more.

The combination of the hacking nebula's SOPA animosity—they've been a vocal opponent of the bill since its inception—combined with today's sudden Megaupload news has made the group bubble over: hundreds upon hundreds of Anon operatives are in a plotting frenzy, chatting about which site will go down next. In Anon's eyes, the government and media interests are responsible for the undue destruction of Megaupload (and the arrest of four of its operators), so it'll be exactly those entities that're feeling the pain right now. Pretty much every company that makes movies, TV, or music, along with the entirety of the federal government, is in Anonymous' crosshairs.

Update: Anonymous says they've also knocked off the RIAA's site—looks down for us at the moment as well.

Update 2: Universal Music Group has also fallen off an e-cliff.

Update 3: Goodbye for now, MPAA.org.

Update 4: Affected sites are bouncing in and out of life, and are at the very least super slow to load. Anon agents are currently trying to coordinate their DDoS attacks in the same direction via IRC.

Update 5: The US Copyright Office joins the list.

Update 6: This Anon sums up the mood in their "official" chat room at the moment:

Danzu: STOP EVERYTHING, who are we DoSing right now?

Update 7: Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous' history—over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.

Update 8: the Anonymous DDoS planning committee is chittering so quickly, it's making my laptop fan spin.

Looks like the government said **** sopa, lets go.

copyright.gov is now down

they are aiming at fbi.gov and whitehouse.gov

I do not support these illegal activities. However, I told it it was coming. 😐

Their activities are certainly in the spirit of our founding fathers (and mothers). It reminds of the Boston Tea Party.

Row Row Fight Da Powah!

Pulling this kind of censorship shit the day after we've just finished protesting about it is one hell of a dick move. The government deserves a punch to the crotch for that imo.

Wow, the information has greatly changed since Peach posted the link:

Originally posted by Peach
Wrong.

Waaaaaaaay wrong.

That list...is...dynamic.

BTW: http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/B001228

Lookin' good. naughty

Bloody hell they're really going for it...

"Update 9: Major record label EMI is down for the count.

Update 10: La résistance est international—French copyright authority HADOPI bites the dust under Anon pressure.

Update 11: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has fallen and can't get up."

Originally posted by dadudemon
Wow, the information has greatly changed since Peach posted the link:

That list...is...dynamic.

BTW: http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/B001228

Lookin' good. naughty

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Bloody hell they're really going for it...

Indeed. I also like the "you're going to pay!!!!" And then they respond, "behind 8 anonymous proxies. GL:HF 🙂 "

Originally posted by dadudemon
Their activities are certainly in the spirit of our founding fathers (and mothers). It reminds of the Boston Tea Party.

I'm not sure why people bring that up every time there's a protest. When the BTP happened it was because they lacked representation. Yesterday the American people just mass-mailed their representatives and appear to have pretty much succeeded in killing SOPA (though not PIPA). These vandals are purely due to half-formed anarchist philosophies.

Also no cries of majoritarianism?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I'm not sure why people bring that up every time there's a protest. When the BTP happened it was because they lacked representation. Yesterday the American people just mass-mailed their representatives and appear to have pretty much succeeded in killing SOPA (though not PIPA). These vandals are purely due to half-formed anarchist philosophies.

Also no cries of majoritarianism?

Your points are very tangential to mine. Also, consider what reminds me of things will not remind others of things.

Why did it remind me of the Boston Tea Party?

Both are groups of people "sticking it to the man" because they feel their rights were being overrun by the big bad government. So they protested this by destroying government property.

Yes, those websites are government property. Yes, a DDoS against a website is a form of destruction. In both instances the government property is rendered "unusable".

In this instance, RIAA, the MPAA and the other interested organizations are the "East Indian Company" that seek to monopolize a "product".

The interested opposition are the various artisans and private business owners that made their own tea...which would be your Gizmodos, Google, Megauploads, etc. The Boston Tea Partiers are Anon. Those supporting the bill would be Parliament and the Crown. The Tea Act is SOPA (or PIPA).

Keep in mind, when I did this comparison (I have not heard of it being compared to the Boston Tea Party, at all, until I thought of it...I don't watch TV nor do I have cable to do so) it took me about 5 seconds. If I were to give it some real thought, I could have the essay on your desk, hole-punched and labeled, by Tuesday at 5 PM. 😐

😆

Spoiler:
Actually, I'd cry about minoritarianism, not majoritarianism, because the minority were suppressing the extreme majority.

SOPA and PIPA are dead.

Originally posted by Robtard
SOPA and PIPA are dead.

So it seems:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71746.html

“I never saw the wind come out of the sails of something so effing fast in my life,” said one lobbyist working for a tech company.

Maybe I'm not cynical enough but this seems like the best thing to happen to (Western) political activism in decades. With any luck we now have a population with a memory of being able to get effect things at a national level.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Maybe I'm not cynical enough but this seems like the best thing to happen to (Western) political activism in decades. With any luck we now have a population with a memory of being able to get effect things at a national level.

You're being incredibly optimistic about the US political system...

hmm

I think I like. 🙂

But, yes, the apathy of "you can't change the system" appears to have been wrong at least to some extent.

Someone should tell the Occupy Wall Street guys how to get shit done.

Originally posted by dadudemon
You're being incredibly optimistic about the US political system...

hmm

I think I like. 🙂

But, yes, the apathy of "you can't change the system" appears to have been wrong at least to some extent.

Someone should tell the Occupy Wall Street guys how to get shit done.

I guess the proper cynical response should probably be that the system, apparently, works but We The People just don't care to make use of it until its very personal.

or we the people need the backing of some incredibly huge corporations...

EDIT: also, Google had no problem with censorship in China until they were attacked directly

Originally posted by inimalist
EDIT: also, Google had no problem with censorship in China until they were attacked directly

I thought Google was China's b*tch, much to Google's chagrin, until they were attacked.

In other words...it was like sex after 40 years of marriage at first but then it turned into sex with your mother-in-law...after 40 years of marriage.

Originally posted by dadudemon
I thought Google was China's b*tch, much to Google's chagrin, until they were attacked.

In other words...it was like sex after 40 years of marriage at first but then it turned into sex with your mother-in-law...after 40 years of marriage.

they didn't have to make buckets of money bending over to the Chinese government (who recently sentenced an individual to 9 years in prison for writing essays about democracy) just to access their markets.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I think it will not matter. Now, if Google had a real black out, instead of just a blacked out name, then it might have some impact.

Who should join in to make it effective?

PayPal?
eBay?

Those are the first two the come to my still asleep head.

LOL

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
LOL

HA! That's awesome.

Repost:

Originally posted by Phanteros
http://www.infowars.com/sopa-and-pipa-fully-alive-and-a-new-bill-joins-them/

Oh my ****ing god.......

Gafargle.