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.

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.

AND ya know we tried it YOUR way, AND YOU ALL FAILED….

And it will……”
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And it will……

Since there is no justice ther is no such thing as illegal.
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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!

Not totally. They generated a certain amount of media buzz.

Cheers!

Since there is no justice ther is no such thing as illegal.

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.

… also very very illegal.

Such a waste.