4Chan & ACS:Law

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[Jack]

Some anti-piracy MAFIA started DDoS'ing random sites they didn't like. So 4chan said "enough is enough" and DDoS'd them back. Then it just snowballed to include other syndicates as well, including ACS:Law.

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[renegadze]

IMO Acs:Law deserve what they get. They've flirted with the wrong side of the law just by the "bullying" tactics they've used to "extort" money from thousands of people.

The fact they've now been hacked and lost so much personal data, should hopefully doom them further....here's hoping that £500mil fine will hurt

[Jack]

And is it ever right for anyone to use DDOS attacks against others?

Eye for an eye.

What happened to the idea of privacy & has the relase of potentially innocent peoples data harmed 4Chans stance on this?

That information would have entered public domain as soon as the lawsuits were filed in court anyway.

May death come swiftly and painfully to those that would oppose the pirates of the cyber seas!

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[[KMA]Avenger]

http://www.peerblock.com/releases

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[Jack]

I hope that you are not suggesting that software like Peerblock can keep you safe. It cant!

All these legal firms have to do is connect to the tracker and scrape the swarm data out, which contains IP addresses of those sharing. As they arent connecting to you when they do that, but to the tracker which you are connected to peerblock is absolutely useless.

Just because they can prove you were in the bank when it was robbed doesn't mean they can prove you helped rob it. Hell, that doesn't even prove you were in the bank at all.

But he's right. Best way to protect yourself is to read TorrentFreak. http://torrentfreak.com/5-ways-to-downl ... ly-100819/

[Empy]

I'm sorry I'm behind but exactly what information was, how should I say it, stolen(?) from ACS:Law and put out on the Internet? I'm behind and interested.

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[Empy]

I'm sorry I'm behind but exactly what information was, how should I say it, stolen(?) from ACS:Law and put out on the Internet? I'm behind and interested.

It was ACS:Law's stupidity in assuming they were safe from harm.

The 4Chan DDOS took their server offline & when the backup activated it wasnt secured & allowed basically full access to everything. From there data was grabbed and then shared across the net.

What is currently doing the round is their email inboxes complete with attachments as I recall. These contain a lot of personal information regarding the people they either were targetting or planning to target for breaking copyright laws. Some even contain bank details.

So people who, basically, torrented and broke copyright laws were listed on their site (in emails or whatever) and were going to be targeted for doing so. That's the information leaked, a list of copyright infringers (including the information listed in a previous post like IP Address, Bank details, whatever).

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[Jack]

You say that but people have been convicted of copyright fraud etc simply on the basis of their IP address appearing in the swarm data of a torrent tracker.

It also doesnt stop legal firms from sending you letters demanding money for these so called 'infractions' promising to drop it if you pay or they'll take it further & add more charges, which as i recall is demanding money with menaces (which is illegal here in the UK).

So yes it has happened here in the UK, in the US & in some EU countries too, as the courts almost always come down on teh side of the copyright holders unless you can pretty much demonstate you cant even turn a PC on or have no phoneline/internet connection.

Not true. There's not a single case of someone other than a release group getting convicted of anything in a proper trial. The only successful case that criminals like ACS:Law likes to bandy about, was a sham. It was a weak case that they won ONLY because the defendant did not show up in court. Source

Legal firms can send all the letters they like. At the end of the day, they wont take you to court if you ignore them. Because they know if they do they are screwed, as the courts will side with the defendant. Hell, the courts have even been stating their contempt for the practices of these criminals lawyers.