hello ...

& 'they'* are doing exactly what 'they'** expected ...

cheers!

Next time, they will launch assault against the United States’ government, transportation, and economy by collective computer hackers. Any and all computer-based systems are the objective and would destroy the modern day life of America. As seen in the 2007 movie “Live Free or Die Hard” or Die Hard 4..

I was under the impression that mega upload/download are pretty quick in general to remove content that it deemed pirated/copyright infringment.

At the end of the day the site was set up as "public" file hosting, and as such those incharge can only do so much to control what content is uploaded.

The closest analogy I can think of is if a criminal used a safe deposit boxes to store stolen goods or evidence from a murder, would it then be fair to charge the bank with theft/ handling stolen goods or charge them as an accessory?

"The closest analogy I can think of is if a criminal used a safe deposit boxes to store stolen goods or evidence from a murder, would it then be fair to charge the bank with theft/ handling stolen goods or charge them as an accessory? "

They are looking in to paypal at the moment for knowingly handling money from the proceeds of crime......

"DDoS attacks likened to the virtual equivalent of a nuclear bomb "

In what F***ing way is this like a nuclear bomb going off????? Ile tell u this one 20 Megaton device detonated at 1000f above Washington DC and planet Earth would be a whole lot less corrupt. Kind of like surgically removing a tumor, well maybe not surgically but to the benefit of humanity to be sure! America already police the world, LEAVE OUR NET THE F**K ALONE!!!

I *want* to like Anonymous but I just can't because they aren't serious enough. You can tell by their actions that they are fairly young, probably slightly immature, group of people. These DDoS attacks are like a few mosquitoes that keep flying around your head; they're annoying and that's about it.

If you want to be taken seriously you need to do something like what Julian Assange and Wikileaks are doing. But then again, for lack of a better phrase, that takes some real balls to do.

It's actually getting tiring seeing Anonymous referred to as "hackers" when 90% (made up figure) of what they do is just DDoS attacks. I'm pretty sure the closest they came to being hackers was the Aaron Barr fiasco.

Just add an Op/Ed tag or even possible an Op/Ed section and then tag/file it under that. Problem solved.

I enjoyed reading your article, including the parts I found opinionated.

@ justgivemeaname.
I think your missing the point of that guests post as well. Anonymous did those DDoS attacks, not because they were trying to protest the arrests, they did it because they didnt agree with the arrest. Even if they did read the paperwork on the arrest all they did was bomb a few websites for a few hours and TEMPORARLY shut them down. Thats like running into a little kid throwing a temper tantrum because mommy didnt buy their favorite cereal. The child disagrees with the parents decision, child throws tantrum. Anonymous did pretty much the same thing.
I do want to like the rebelous nature of Anonymous, I just feel their actions are less then honest. What are they trying to protest? What are they trying to protect? They have no true north. They are just "bandwagoning" whats hot and news worthy. I want to see them become more serious in both their actions and responses. If they wanted to protest the arrests, they should have shutdown those websites on a more permanent basis. Hold the website "hostage" till their demands are met

That's exactly what this thread needed, somebody's bull s*** semantic interpretation of their motives...

Uh oh - where'd you come from, cap'n? I was just about to post a completely unqualified, unsupported opinion, too. I better hold off now. Nuts.

All I know is they are doing what they believe is right, not what some lobbyist told them too.

You should read the indictment they were served for more details (can be found in the comments of the TechSpot story about the arrest)…

3 days later his computer explodes...

Now I can't watch movies anymore...