Big 4 IFPI under online attack
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- You don’t fool with the Net or supporters of online P2P freedom, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s IFPI today learned.
Having been appropriately placed on the same level as the equally hated and despised Cult of Scientology, it’s now recovering from an organised DDoS attack.
“Hacktivists have launched denial of service attacks against music industry association ifpi.org and lawyers involved in the prosecution of the four Pirate Bay defendants in the wake of a guilty verdict against the quartet last Friday,” said The Register‘s John Leyden.
“The assault has rendered ifpi.org – the main website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry – intermittently unavailable or sluggish for a time on Monday morning,” he says.
“Discussions involving 250 hackers on irc.anonnet.org talk about retaliation on the ifpi and lawyers involved in the case and a desire to take the ifi.org website off the internet throughout Monday, at a minimum. Discussion on the attack can be found at irc channels at anonnet.org.”
Admin coldblood told The Register, “This is very much like the Scientology thing started more than a year ago now.”
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Operation Baylout, as the attack is called, also involved the reported defacement of the Swedish website of the IFPI.
Meanwhile limited distributed denial of service attacks against some Torrent tracker sites continued in the wake of guilty verdict against the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay trial last Friday.
The main victim of attacks by as yet unidentified vigilantes (or possibly simple griefers) was free-torrents.org, reports security tools firm Arbor Networks. The assault against free-torrents.org has been going on for around a month, and so is hardly a new development. Arbor’s findings (below) contradict rumours that large-scale denial of service attacks against multiple Torrent trackers were underway.
All in all, except for free-torrents.org getting attacked by a Black Energy botnet run out of China (using the C&C at hack-off.ru), we can`t corroborate this spate of attacks. Free-torrents.org has been getting pounded by this botnet since mid March, 2009, in fact. But none of the other major sites appear to be receiving such packet love.
The IFPI site was back up when p2pnet went for a look at 10:27 am Pacific.
The Register – Music industry sites DDoSed after Pirate Bay verdict, April 20, 2009
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April 20th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
DDOSing is really a bad idea, more like a child throwing a quick tantrum… and forgotten equally as fast, I wish i could speak to those guys and get something more constructive out of all of that computing power…
… also very very illegal.
Such a waste.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Ezee.se:
There are no “those guys” behind “anonymous”.
It’s basically the ultimate “flash mob”: people put out ideas, and if people are interested, they do their own thing with it.
The only reason Chanology was interesting is because enough people hate the Church of Scientology that they felt like being involved with the Chanology “brand”.
Anonymous is “designed” (if you can even apply that term) that way.
I mean, come on — what real common “party line” can you get from:
1. Chanology (attack on Church of Scientology)
2. Hacktivism against that racist guy
3. Seizure-bombing epilepsy-awareness website.
4. Raiding Habbo Hotel online-world with Samuel-Jackson lookalikes
5. Defacing hiphop-related websites.
6. Unleashing a rain of penises on Anshe Chung’s press conference in Second Life.
You can’t, because there IS no “organization” there, in the conventional sense of the term.
It’s even more amorphous than the “leaderless-resistance” structure used by dissident Right-wing groups in the U.S. back in the 1990s — this isn’t even “Cells”, and there’s no “command”-structure.
Just a bunch of anonymous chatboards, encyclopedia dramatica, Ebaums world, and whatever else somebody decides to use.
That is also why media coverage related to “Anonymous” is total bullshit.
You can’t “stop” anonymous because it’s not an “organization” in the conventional sense of the term.
It’s ad-hoc, emergent, not just “de-centralized” but ANTI-CENTRAL (if that’s even a word).
Read the articles related to them at wikipedia and encyclopedia dramatica — I see “anti-organizations” such as Anonymous as the wave of the future, really: flash-mobs on a global scale.
But yeah, I agree with you that DdoS attacks are bullshit and pretty much pointless.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:08 am
“also very very illegal.”
Since there is no justice ther is no such thing as illegal.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:09 am
“DdoS attacks are bullshit and pretty much pointless”
Not totally. They generated a certain amount of media buzz.
Cheers!
April 21st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
==snip==
âalso very very illegal.â
Since there is no justice ther is no such thing as illegal.
==/snip==
When i said illegal i meant that this can at times be traced back to you and there are laws in most countries that give you hard time for this…
this is a little beyond “lets download a song even though its illegal… because that law is BS and they cant ever catch me.”
To have a good DDOS attack you need a botnet or … a lot of people organized to “visit” a site at once…
think about it.
@H.E Thanks for the explanation
Cheers!
April 21st, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Illegal as it may be, I certainly don’t care if it continues.
: )
April 21st, 2009 at 1:45 pm
you people don’t have any clue do you what your really dealing with…..
Which is just fine with me.
And it will……
April 21st, 2009 at 6:25 pm
quote
“you people donât have any clue do you what your really dealing withâ¦..
Which is just fine with me.
And it willâ¦â¦”
unquote
Troll Detected in Sector 3!
Red Alert!
Red Alert!
Ready the LOIC!
April 21st, 2009 at 9:03 pm
heh
more like informed person who knows whats going and and the above troll hasn’t even got his windshield wipers flowing BUT hey flaming users its what its all about and you certainly have the research to back up a lame excuse for a pathetic skillset of drilb.
AND ya know we tried it YOUR way, AND YOU ALL FAILED….
April 21st, 2009 at 11:21 pm
“going and and the”
“going… flowing”
“drilb”
wat
Also, you used five ‘and’s in two sentences there.
Look, these guys didn’t come from irc.anonnet.org. They came from 4chan. I was there, and I saw the messages planning the DDoS long before it actually happened. If you know anything about 4chan, you know that these people are completely unorganized. I bet you a couple of thousand people saw the plans to attack ifpi.org and thought it was a good idea, but only a handful of people committed to it, i.e. 250, if this article is to be trusted. Whoever wrote this article seems to know this. They knew enough to say it was the same people that were behind project chanology.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
What hasn’t been asked yet in these comments is, “Is it an unreasonable reaction to what the organization being attacked has done?”
You can spew the ‘It’s a waste to DDoS, it’s illegal, it’s childish, ad nauseum’ but does anyone have a better idea? The corporations have demonstrated not only an ability but a willingness to buy their way into having the advantage in courts and governments. Despite there being multiple artists who have said they really aren’t that hurt by online file sharing, despite the fact that a CD that costs 8 bucks a concert costs 20 at a record store, despite the recording and movie industries constantly shoving the worst shit down our throats in order to fill their already bloated wallets, there seems to be surprise that finally action is being taken. How many TV networks have gotten smart and put free content online? Marvel got smart and put up their digital comics section and charged a very reasonable price to access it.
Warner Bros. brought up this option, charging everyone an extra 1-2 bucks a month from their ISP in order to access the entire media library of the company, and they were shouted down. But I bet you that if the music and movie industry would adopt that idea now there wouldn’t be this problem.