Hackers Divert Anti-Piracy Website to Torrent Sites
Written by enigmax on August 17, 2009Last week, the Portuguese Ministry of Culture decided to shut down or block 28 file-sharing sites. The original complaint came from local anti-piracy outfit MAPiNET. In what appears to be a revenge attack, hackers targeted their website and diverted it to some of the world’s biggest torrent sites.
In response to a complaint from local anti-piracy outfit MAPiNET, the Portuguese Ministry of Culture ordered a shutdown and blockade of 28 sites that allegedly link to copyrighted material hosted elsewhere.
As we reported earlier on our sideblog FreakBits, the Portuguese Cultural Activities Inspection ordered one of the most prominent ISPs to remove or block subscriber access to 28 ‘pirate websites’.
The complaint originated from the local anti-piracy outfit MAPiNET and today, as is often the case, they are the subject of reprisals by hackers.
Several hours ago hackers took control of the MAPiNET website and added code to redirect visitors to several of the word’s biggest torrent sites. At the time of writing the site is unavailable and showing “Offline. Regressa brevemente.” (Offline. Back soon)
However, there is still a way to test the hack for yourself. By doing a search on Google for ‘MAPiNET Pirate Bay‘ and clicking any MAPiNET link that goes within the site and not the homepage, hey presto. A cycling of diversions to The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and Demonoid, quite the opposite of what the anti-piracy outfit tried to accomplish.
Update: The site is now back online and the Google route no longer works.
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Torrentfreak -> Freakbits = Death of Bittorrent
@1 not really, TorrentBits was taken ;)
whats the point of having the two news sites? Are they moving torrentfreak there or?
@1: I smell an overgeneralization.
On the page of MAPINET the say that Jörg Tauss from the german pirate party is a pedo.
Yes!
I love the internet
I love hackers
I love revenge hacks
Die RIAA/MAFIAA sheeple-fleecers
Let them have their Bentleys and diamond encrusted wristwatches at the sheeple’s expense. It sure won’t be me paying for any of their copyrighted crap.
I love it when I was at the movies and they had some poor hollywood stunt driver do an anti-piracy commercial that had like guys in burglar masks and other assorted nonsense. But hey! they won’t show some of the people that make huge bank crying because they can’t have literally a $30,000.00 dollar luncheon with film execs or boo hoo they can’t buy another Greek Island for themselves. They serve Greed. I serve Liberty.
A lawbreaker shills will label me? Fine, I WILL practice civil disobedience. Let law enforcement spend all the man-hours and resources you want on file-sharers. Never mind about real crimes like human trafikking*intentional and things I don’t even like to utter aloud. It’s fine when they hide all their money off-shore and have executive coke parties with models/screw-toys. Okay I can feel my bl00d starting to boil rant over.
Have a good day fellow sharers.
What’s the point in having 2 sites? Can’t everything thats going to be put on fb be put here instead?
I kno theres rss, but for people that don’t use it, its going to be a bit annoying going to 2 different sites.
hmmmmmmm freakbits…….
ima bit freaked….. :o)
In the post it says freakbits is for user made content so thats why its on a different site I guess.
tbh I wouldn’t want to put Reasoned Wotsisface on Torrenfreak xD
OMG
come on torrenfreak, put him on freakbits :P
in fact theere are a few in these comments could do a post.
Portugal hackers ftw I suppose
sweet move hackers…wish these things were more permanant thouugh. i hate the fact that these mapinet goons are able to fix things in a couple of hours.
Haha Mapinet pwned..
I miss the days when more would be accomplished rather than just defacing or redirects..
Real hackers get the good stuff. Emails, phone numbers, source code..
Just leaking that stuff out can destroy these MAFIAA clowns.
Aug 17 2009
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What are the purpose of the hackers in diverting the sites?Is their any significance towards this?
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@9
Once in the Torrent Community Lifetime I do agree whit Reasoned Mind.
You got a point Reasoned Mind.
This nonsense of DoS attacks and redirecting of a page is just a childish playing whit an computer.
Good Dammed use your time more efficient and Hack in and dig up some dirty skeletons in the RIAA yard’s.
So we can used to fight this Pigs whit something.
Hhe, badly pwned, any response from the sites?
@9
Who told you they didn’t?
I’m glad that The Pirate Bay is sort of “dead”. I think that file-sharing is/has suffered from the false ‘pirate’ moniker being used against us by industry to do just such things.
…Not that we aren’t trying too hard to distance ourselves from the moniker. ;D
Still though… :/
Anyway, “ola-salima”, hackers.
We need something more substantial than these kinds of tricks. Let’s start publishing MAFIAA personal details.
@11 is it gonna be public? :D
Seems anti-piracy.nl is unavailable at the moment too. Zombie’s like to eat BREIN it seems.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Pretbek: so far they’re pretending nothing happened. It would be embarassing to admit they got their asses hacked through a wordpress vulnerability on their site, by their own worst enemies, filesharing users.
What was the 28 sites ?
Need this list… ahahah
Well, it’s not that stupid. On TF there still will be only news and articles, while on FB there will be opinions and responses to those news.
It’s better to separate both, because some people prefer to read news only or opinions only. I’m quite sure many of you who visit now FB will quit or visit it rarely and be more than happy that those “opinions” don’t show up here on TF.
Something have really gone wrong if the people find relief in such actions, I’m not calling it wrong in this case because I’m biased towards the people and am not affraid to say it.
But as a people if we can’t trust our systems and don’t feel the confidence, the check and balances put in place are not working.
We should come up with suggestion and demand from the politicians that they implement those.
yo lo que digo es que la picha es pal higo
Maybe you guys should make either torrentfreak or freakbits the PirateBay fluffer site so the ’sheep’ can continue to be fed their koolaide in one place without having their attention diverted by your ventures into the non-TPB market?
Sorry to ALMOST venture into ‘trollness’ This piece is actually interesting but sort of a soft ball. One would hope that with your connections you could get a bit meatier in your stories to evoke emotion. I respect what these Freedom fighters did it response to the tyranny placed upon the people by government and the corporations. That would be great to see you guys focus on rather than how cool it would be to download pirate bay.
I can understand enough Portugese to see the point here;
“Suspeito de pedofilia passa a representar o Partido Pirata Alemão no Parlamento”, one of their news head lines on the front page.
Just another propaganda bullshit organization.
Shareconnector.com doesn’t appear to be connecting the files in the sense that it is providing ed2k links anymore. That is totally fucked up that the case is going to be appealed when the site isn’t even functioning like what they went after it for before. So is the next thing suing the internet because sometime, someone used it for activity that you didn’t like in the past BRIEN? The site hasn’t even been serving files in 2 years and the site says “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.”. This is up there with suing the dead people (RIAA, etc).
Shareconnector.com doesn’t appear to be connecting the files in the sense that it is providing ed2k links anymore. That is totally messed up that the case is going to be appealed when the site isn’t even functioning like what they went after it for before. So is the next thing suing the internet because sometime, someone used it for activity that you didn’t like in the past BRIEN? The site hasn’t even been serving files in 2 years and the site says “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.”. This is up there with suing the dead people (RIAA, etc).
Over the past week there have been stories about the Russian army directing a cyber attack on neighboring Georgia and the FBI training hackers in cyber disruptions. Does it surprise anyone that the pro=BitTorrent crowd will attack? As a Internet Lawyer I see “black hat” SEO practices that are used to attack rival sites all the time. Hard to block such behavior – Easy to initiate.
Brilliant!
they’re doing it wrong.
they should have redirected the web pages to legal sites, stating how its illegal to lie and steal from their customer base.
So TF, you done something that I never thought you would. You deleted a comment from me advising you to get the truthfulness of the story with a link to a correct comment in FreakBits.
Last time in here. I’ll go back to p2pnet. At least Jon is consistent and doesn’t care for a bunch of mindless drones posting “yay” everytime.
Byebye.
It was bullshit. Some anti-piracy wannabee’s tryed to force some entities to force main ISP provider to shutdown some crappy websites. Most of them in Blogspot.
They had no jurisdiction so it was only propaganda as you might see on their website regarding pedophily …
Stupid moves.
For me they can close all portuguese websites that i dont give a sh!t … they are all crappy. There’s only on private torrent forum but if they go arrested, better because they are making money from piracy …
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