It turns out that, among other things, ACS:Law represents content providers in the adult entertainment industry and has been aggressively pursuing people accused of illegally swapping porn on file sharing networks, trying to extract money out of them. I have far more concern over the fact of my train turning up 10 minutes late or having to queue for a coffee than them wasting my time with this sort of rubbish,' he said. tech news site The Register contacted ACS:Law chief Andrew Crossley by phone to ask him about the attacks.

One of the sites attacked was ACS:Law, a U.K.-based law firm engaged by copyright holders to pursue file swappers. Recently, 4chan began venting its ire upon the RIAA, the MPAA, and agents engaged by said parties to take down BitTorrent sites like Pirate Bay in what it called 'Operation: Payback is a bitch.' The 4channers began by launching DDoS attacks against these sites on earlier this month, taking them offline for a few hours, grabbing a few headlines, but otherwise having little more than a symbolic impact on their operations. Like I said, you don't want to mess with them. The collective ingenuity and sheer adolescent bravado of the 4channers is something to behold. The 4chan message board is responsible for such Internet memes as Rickrolling and Lol Catz, and its members managed to get their nominal leader, Christopher Pool (aka Moot), elected Time Magazine's 'Most Influential Person of 2009' by gaming the website. Well, make that anybody but London firm ACS:Law, which decided to mess around with 4chan and is now paying the price (along with a lot of otherwise innocent people).Īs regular readers of this blog know, 4chan is the group loosely associated with 'Anonymous,' which caused the Church of Scientology fits in 2008 and posted fake news reports of the death (from cocaine overdose) of AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson in July 2009.

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