4chan Users Takes Down MPAA Website

4chan users have coordinated an attack against The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) website. The assault on the MPAA website is suspected to be in retaliation to an Indian tech firm that bragged about how they launched similar attacks on several torrent websites. The following message appeared on 4chan before the attack took place:

We target the bastard group that has thus far led this charge against our websites, like The Pirate Bay. We target MPAA.ORG! The IP is designated at “216.20.162.10?, and our firing time remains THE SAME. All details are just as before, but we have reaimed our crosshairs on this much larger target. We have the manpower, we have the botnets, it’s time we do to them what they keep doing to us.
REPEAT: AIPLEX IS ALREADY DOWN THANKS TO A SINGLE ANON. WE ARE MIGRATING TARGETS.

4chan was able to take down MPAA using the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) tactic. After installing LOIC, anyone can repeatedly ping a website. But the hard part is being able to bring a group of people together to do it at once. 4chan is one of the few websites out there that can coordinate such an attack.

[Gawker]

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