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Hackers hit Hollywood's piracy watchdog
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Web site run by the Motion Picture Association of America, the lobbying arm of the major Hollywood studios, was temporarily brought down Saturday by pirates enraged by an escalation in anti-piracy efforts.
MPAA.org and the Web site of AiPlex Software, a company the MPAA hired to target sites where piracy was rampant, were incapacitated for much of the day, according to the piracy blog Torrentfreak.
"The MPAA is aware of the illegal attack and has taken measures to mitigate the effect of any denial-of-service attack," said an MPAA spokesman, noting the organization was able to get its site back online.
The attacks were declared on the message-board group 4chan, which is notorious as a hotbed for piracy activity. Their call to arms was prompted by a statement AiPlex made earlier in the month about stepping up its own efforts to counter torrent sites trafficking in copyright-infringing content.
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Which they then tried to cover up and deny so as to appear to be the victims.
Also, this is bias reporting by reuters. The users of 4chan are not all pirates (just like how not all muslims are terrorists). The protest by the users was againt Aiplex and MPAA using illegal DoS attacks to bring down torrent sites.
4chan responded in exactly the same way that Aiplex (hired by members of the MPAA) attacked. For the MPAA to try and take the moral high ground here is shocking.
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