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RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”

Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully wiped from the site.

It started out on the social news website Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site’s entire database.

The comments on Reddit are only speculation so far. Based on the username, which was apparently “webReadOnly”, it might not have been setup correctly, or someone could have found another way to delete the content form the site.

Another possibility is that the website has some sort of database flood protection that disables new connections, or perhaps the RIAA themselves removed the content temporarily. The latter seems unlikely, as a better solution would be to take it entirely offline to fix the bigger problem. While they could fix a small vulnerability like this in a matter of seconds, the chances are it’s not an isolated problem.

As pointed out by Haywire, playing around with the urls a bit can return some funny results. It is pretty easy to make the RIAA link to The Pirate Bay for example.

For now it sure does look like all the content has been wiped from the RIAA homepage. Let’s hope they have backups, or not.

Update: After a few hours the RIAA restored the site. They seem to have fixed the vulnerability, but we have saved some screenshots.

Update: They didn’t fix it all, this still works.

RIAA website without content

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RIAA supporting The Pirate Bay

riaa pirate bay

Error?

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  • Elliott99

    LOL THATS SOO FUNNY!

  • The Best

    Sorry to disappoint, Elliott 99. Maybe one day you’ll be first? First in line at the jerk store!

  • Elliott99

    LOL – let me guess you’re 10? right?

  • Anonymous

    0wn3d

  • zarathustra

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAetc.

    Ad nauseam…

  • Preacher

    ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!

  • unknown

    The news room page shows a link to “Pirate Bay – Free music and movies”. Roar!

  • uk_pirate

    yarrrr!!! who loves ya baby? NO-ONE!!! datz y ewe gotz pwn3d. TPBFTW!!!

  • RogerBontan

    Haha ! OWNED ?

  • heavyglow

    they deserved it!

  • heavyglow

    all go on this link!!
    http://tinyurl.com/26cmub

    it makes a very slow query on riaa website!!

  • thenotsojollyroger

    I PAY FOR NOTHING!!!
    AAAAAAAAAHAHAHA

  • Pocoloco

    I can still access the info on the site when I go through the “TPB link at RIAA” posted in this article, and then press one of riaas tabs, I can see it all, then when I press some tab a second time i get to the “temp removed”.
    I think this seems strange.

    Ohh! and TPB FTW! :P

  • MattyD

    They still haven’t got it back and working yet? You would think they would get someone on this right away. Maybe they haven’t noticed yet?

  • Yatti

    WOOHOO!!! DOWN WITH THE RIAA!!!

  • Cyanide

    ROLF hahahahaha

    BLOW ME, I’m from romania, please come cut my internet cable ! CUNTS !

  • south

    lol thats so choice

  • Toaster

    http://tinyurl.com/2vrzkh (Yeah i know, you don’t trust tinyURL, but the link was frigging huge, it’s real, if not digg me down into oblivion)

  • RIAA

    Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.

  • don’t worry digg user

    hahaha, good for them. i love it when this kind of s**t happens. hahahah!!!

    god bless america! and the hackers

  • thorn182

    lol

  • Elliott99

    Their site is now offline!
    20# that meant to be scary?

  • Caught

    Oh, this is good!

  • Cubbs

    MattyD, its sunday, they’re 9-5 people, got owned badly ;-)

  • Max

    [quote comment="268104"]Sorry to disappoint, Elliott 99. Maybe one day you’ll be first? First in line at the jerk store![/quote]
    Omg, that was soooo mature! I wanna be like you man!

  • Crandom

    W00t W00t taken DOWN!

  • capiCrimm

    it’s not wiped. The db is simply flooded from all the long reddit queries to the point that it can’t make any new connections. If you load the page about fifty times you’ll get lucky and see the data now and then.

  • Anonymous

    wut happens 2012?

  • swisha

    The Punks vs Mercs battle is really heating up lately, and the reds are winning :P

  • awesome

    haha, pwned!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t f**k with 1337 h4x0r$

  • Anonymous

    this made my day! :)

  • oneplusone

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]

    Suck a dick.

  • OPP

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]

    2012? So THAT’S when you make your move for world domination and set up concentration camps for pirates. Might aswell build a fence around Earth.

  • Death

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]

    You should be executed for lameness.

  • zach

    end of the mayan calander. we dont know what will happen but something…. maybe it will rain? maybe a comet will hit? maybe the big mac will go onto the dollar menu?? ok thats pushing it..

  • Anonymous

    Yep, they’re definately off-line. (snicker)

  • Mr.Afghanistan

    LoooOooOoooooooooooooooL
    RIAA fucked up :)

    get a life RIAA. find some good programmers to close the fuckin security holes.

    XSS security shit is for kids, still you guys fucked up with XSS trick. LoL

    any way. Good Luck :)
    do google how to prevent XSS attacks :)

  • Vash

    Everyone go to thief.infernohost.net and download my proxy webbrowser, you can keep switching proxies to get them LOL!

  • PiratePartyOperations

    Oh, come on, guys… these poor RIAA saps don’t know they’re stupid, and I’m sure with their history of litigating everything that moves, they can’t attract a decent programmer to begin with. And they obviously don’t trust Google, or they’d know how to secure a database.

  • Bob

    RIAA should group up with Scientology and make the “Church of Stupid”..

  • Dan

    Awww….. too bad for them

  • Anonymous

    w00t! Top of front page of Digg!

  • TheOneX

    FUCK RIAA and MPAA !!!

    This is great news and next websites should be mediasentry.com and media-defender.com etc

    FUCK copyright and PRO SHARING!

  • zach

    its back up now!! damn!!!

  • Cl1mh4224rd

    [quote comment="268213"]it’s not wiped. The db is simply flooded from all the long reddit queries to the point that it can’t make any new connections. If you load the page about fifty times you’ll get lucky and see the data now and then.[/quote]

    I can confirm that this seems to be the case.

  • zach

    but its still wiped clean :)

  • c17fm

    nice hackers..

    fuk the RIAA/MPAA

    AND THIER BULLSHIT…

    FREEDOM OF DL

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
    don’t notice anything about 2012 that wikipedia says about that year.

  • sevendegrees

    :looks at headlines:
    …

    ……

    ………

    holy shit!!1! XD

  • JusticeFND

    FUCK RIAA period

  • zach

    2012 just google it youll see, i believe something will happen but like i said earlier we dont know what will happen but something…. maybe it will rain? maybe a comet will hit? maybe the big mac will go onto the dollar menu?? ok thats pushing it..

  • korn

    haahhaahahhaha

  • TheOneX

    Yeah we need to get more pirates active in defening our rights.

    Bring down any anti-p2p website.

    Mediasentry.com should be next :)

  • NICE

    And even after several hours they have not done anything yet to sort it out – but the again, THEY do it for money and today, after all, IS Sunday. How can somebody be so ignorant not to keep a constant eye on the net (and exp. on your own site!) in such a “business”? That proves, once more, that they are not only mean and money-mad but also very stupid…

  • whoever

    your ALL just a bunch of thieving little bastards!

  • P

    Why is stealing music ok?
    then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?

    who is teaching the future generations here?

    sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.

  • KJ

    Lol @ #56. I keep the list on the web of the shit I wanna get. Check it out, whoever.

    http://moviestoget.blogspot.com

  • Re: 56 above

    Maybe we are…but at least we can spell! Actually, we’re not, but then I promised my mom that I woulldn’t feed the trolls :)

  • Anonymous

    “sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.”

    You are wrong. Most people here respect artists very much. But we hate to be ripped of by the industry. We want to give money to you guys making the music and not paying the bills of a big bloated industry thats not even necessary anymore.

    There are many ways of supporting an artist: Buying a CD, getting merchandise, visiting your concerts. I am extremly sure many people who download your music will do one of these things if they liked it!

  • Anonymous

    thats fuckin awesome

  • oneplusone

    [quote comment="268326"]Why is stealing music ok?
    then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?

    who is teaching the future generations here?

    sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.[/quote]

    Boo hoo. Hoo.

  • Lamerx

    Ha Ha :o)

  • Damn

    Now it’s back up again.

  • ?

    LMAO, haha fuck u RIAA :D

  • notP

    @P
    start making concert and distribute your music under CC licence…

    (that’s how the good band/musician should survive to my opinion)

  • Anonymous

    Quote ” Why is stealing music ok?
    then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?

    who is teaching the future generations here?

    sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.”

    Man… If you are in the music industry you realize that you make next to nothing off of cd sales. Quit your bit*hin and hit the road on tour. Death To RIAA…

  • .

    Before every one gets excited; while the RIAA are a bunch of retards I’m sure that their website employees are smart enough to have back-ups.

  • Q

    [quote comment="268326"]Why is stealing music ok?
    then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?

    who is teaching the future generations here?

    sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.[/quote]

    Wow, I’m in music too – I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for you right now ;p

  • The DON

    I saw their website in the better state at about 20:00, but unfortunatelt, by 20:50, they have restored at least the front few pages back to their originals.

    It could not have happened to a more deserving organisation :-))

  • Response to P

    Hey buddy, I’m a musician and a painter and think there is nothing better than the network of people that has sprung from nothing to share all this information. I play in a reggae/ska band and thanks to the likes of things like bittorrent we played a tour in Japan a few months ago. Why? because a bunch of music LOVERS from Japan started downloading our tracks, and we gained a following. I applaud anyone who uses these systems as it is taking the money away from the labels and other suits, and giving the power to the artists. Musicians are making more than ever on tour now, and the tide is changing to where people stop buying their music at Best Buy where the money gets funneled to the suits, to where musicians are uploading directly to Itunes and other media to get paid directly. I’d rather get the attention that I earned instead of some money whoring label.

  • WakuWaku

    Props to you nr. 71 !
    You are the one who understand it.

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  • Freak

    Concerning almost everyone who just posted in these comments,

    Shut up.

    Seriously..just shut up. You are all annoying with your improper spelling and immature behaviour..pff. Of course then again I just type like this to imtimidate pre-pubescent teenagers who think myspace and facebook are coolzorb.

    Seriously though..shut up.

  • nka

    excelente!

  • Anonymous

    Go ahead and keep stealing music, you inconsiderate idiots. That way, the artists don’t get paid, they don’t get what they deserve, and they can’t support their families. How selfish can you people be? Let me come over to your house and steal your stuff. How would you like that?

  • NotBrainWashed

    [quote comment="268382"]Go ahead and keep stealing music, you inconsiderate idiots. That way, the artists don’t get paid, they don’t get what they deserve, and they can’t support their families. How selfish can you people be? Let me come over to your house and steal your stuff. How would you like that?[/quote]

    Oh, c’mon, stop being so brain washed. Artists don’t get paid because they let record labels to sell their music. Only junk music is promoted these days.

  • fedor

    The RIAA website seems to be restored…

  • dongnonymous

    [quote comment="268382"]Go ahead and keep stealing music, you inconsiderate idiots. That way, the artists don’t get paid, they don’t get what they deserve, and they can’t support their families. How selfish can you people be? Let me come over to your house and steal your stuff. How would you like that?[/quote]
    hahahahahaha

    i love this
    whenever artists or producers pull this shit it almost makes me die laughing.

    honestly, it’s exactly like that south park episode.

    “since you downloaded music illegally, britney spears can’t buy her fourteenth twin double awesome hyperjet and has to instead settle for a regular awesome hyperjet.

    “since you downloaded music illegally, metallica can’t afford that third country they had been wanting to buy.

    “since you downloaded music illegally, the rolling stones can’t afford to buy an entirely gold plated replica, square inch by square inch, of new york city, and instead are going to have to settle for a gold-plated replica of chicago.”

    give me a fucking break.
    no one suffers from this.
    the people who need the money are getting promoted endlessly by filesharing, which totally helps them and gives them more money, and the people who are “hurt” by it (the multimillionaires with twelve clothing lines and perfumes named after them) don’t need the money anyway. they could still waste ten thousand dollars every day for the rest of their lives and not even notice.

    so shut up.

    no one cares.

    cry us a fucking river.

  • BongWizard

    @Retard above me (#75)

    You just don’t get the idea of filesharing do you? The more we share, the more people will download. And the more people download, the more known artists become. The way the music industry is know, all the cash goes to douchebags in suits and not to the people who actually have the talent. With filesharing, these artists are able to get their music out to the world without paying the salaries of said suited douchebags, and once they are known, then they can begin to make money.

    A recording is just a promotional tool. Music lives on stage, not trapped between the layers of a CD.

  • haldean

    I think I missed all the fun… the site is back up again D:

  • advocate

    musicians shouldn’t expect a cd to support their families. they should be out playing their music across the world every day without a family to worry about in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="268382"]Go ahead and keep stealing music, you inconsiderate idiots. That way, the artists don’t get paid, they don’t get what they deserve, and they can’t support their families. How selfish can you people be? Let me come over to your house and steal your stuff. How would you like that?[/quote]

    Thanks for that laugh. I haven’t read a company plant’s post on a blog in a few days. Do you get overtime for weekends?

    The RIAA isn’t on the side of the angels. Not everyone online is downloading music illegally nor is everyone who listens to music automatically suspect. The RIAA seems to think that “consumer” or “PC owner” means enemy and has labeled everyone who isn’t in the industry as suspect.

    So yeah, even though I don’t download, I’m happy to see them get taken down a peg or two because what they’ve been up to in the last few years hasn’t been just going after people who download. It’s been downright anti-consumer. They’re going after customers. Get that? People who are paying for the content the industry claims they aren’t getting paid for. The customers of the very organizations they are supposed to be protecting. They’re going after anyone they think might, maybe, possibly rip a CD to their computer. Or maybe, might possibly even be thinking about it. Sometime, in the future at some possible date… probably.

    Frankly, they’re insane with greed and the consumers are stuck with the consequences. So your little rant is ineffective and just makes you look like a RIAA drone. Now run off back to you cubicle and tell your boss that the blogs aren’t responding favorably to your posts. If we’re lucky, you’ll trip over the water cooler and hurt yourself and that’ll be that last we hear from you.

  • Anonymous

    thats fuckin epic

  • damn

    they’re back up again

  • Anonymous

    Fuck RIAA? Yes.
    Fuck copyright? No.
    Go hackers ftw? Ehh…

    This was one person figuring out a hack, and a bunch of people jumping on a bandwagon like blind lemmings. It was a cheap shot, and while it brings a smile, don’t pretend it was some sort of grand coup; RIAA will just play this up to demonstrate that people who oppose them aren’t just “stealing music”, but resorting to illegal hacking and DoS. Um, yes, that makes us all much more innocent.

    Many musicians support sharing, but aside from the ones who are standing on the street accepting donations into their guitar case, I don’t know of many who would say “I want to give my music away for free, for the rest of my life.” If you do music as a hobby on the weekend, sure, but a “day job” does need to pay for itself. Sharing != fuck paying an artist.

    I realize most people don’t want to think about this in more than terms of “wah, I can’t just indiscriminately download music, in violation of current copyright law, without worrying about the RIAA looking over my shoulder”, but if you’re ever hoping your balls will drop and that you’ll be perceived as a man and not just a boy, you need to start thinking about how the rest of the population – that doesn’t do p2p – is going to think about it.

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  • TheOneX

    A real fucking artist doesnt complain and moan about people downloading his music/movie or whatever.

    A real artist knows how to survive and adept the changes.

    So still. FUCK MPAA/RIAA and all the companies who are useless and sueing people over Large sums of money or putting them in jail and potray them as

    CRIMINALS <—- unacceptable

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  • Anonymous

    @TheOneX

    I think I should be allowed to smoke pot in public. Everyone else needs to learn to adapt, and get out of my face.

    Portraying me as a criminal is unacceptable; I don’t care that the law has been this way for decades, I don’t like it, so I’m going to bitch and whine and moan and break the law, and then bitch and whine and moan some more when I get arrested or sued.

    Grow up. You want to change this? Prove to the majority of people – not just the ones that already agree with you – that you’re right. And just because it works for rap artists to say “fuck” over and over again to make a hit song, doesn’t mean it’ll work for you.

  • Anonymous

    Loads of bands put there music videos up on YouTube, MySpace, etc officially; you don’t pay to listen to it on there! Having a copy on your computer just prevents a build up of the ever-increasing internet congestion all over the world.

    Don’t get me wrong, artists should get the money they deserve. It’s the “big guys” in the industry that get a load of money, for what I ask.

    People still buy CD’s, Merchandise, etc, I’m sure the artist can survive on what they make; It’s still going to be more than most of us!

    Something’s definitely happening: there’s a 404 on news_room.php, perhaps an attempt to stop all the XSSing!

    I must admit, reading this on digg made my laugh a little!

    cheers,

  • Anonymous

    at least today riaa.com gets some clicks

  • mR.WOLF

    GIVE THEM NOTHING…BUT TAKE FROM THEM EVERRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYTHINH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • Dan

    CRAP! they got the site back up. Oh well, fun while it lasted.

  • huh123456

    it wasn’t wiped clean. stick to reporting on client bugs. I presume you will edit your story to something that is true, and not fiction.

    all you have to do is hit enter 20 times or so and you get to their site

  • fedor

    [quote comment="268455"]CRAP! they got the site back up. Oh well, fun while it lasted.[/quote]
    You can still inject XSS.

  • Bas

    Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

  • Rob

    XSS still works :D

    Screw them… :p

  • Bippy

    riaa has get cheezberger?

  • apocalypse

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
    so yea supposedly the apocalypse according to the mayans is going to happen that year so r they saying that were all going to die damn riaa u guys are fucked up for wishing that upon us well u guys arent going to last long i bet u guys are going to die out before that lol

  • No Name

    If the riaa wants to stop pracy then tell all the artists to stop selling cds and then we will have nothing to rip.

  • Anonymous

    This is the very definition of being owned.

  • Oliver

    Just Great ! :D

  • Puppy

    The riaa deserves it

    the record companies give them millions and they sue people for millions and keep all the money for them self

    if there so in for keeping the artist from loosing money then why are they so in for charging millions for their crap service and they don’t even give any of their profits to the artist

  • Lamerx

    Check out XSS injection here: http://www.milw0rm.com/papers/173

  • Anonymous

    I know it’s a wall of text but it’s worth the read

    http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html

  • kaufman

    looooooool
    way to go. if you can’t beat them. hack them ;)

  • Yatti

    I think they fixed it!?

  • Anonymous

    Rofl, I changed their logo to TPB logo
    http://i26.tinypic.com/20ni4g.jpg

  • Anonymous

    they did it for the lulz

  • Jonesbeat

    These evil folks here at riaa are serious and this little threat about 2012 is very real. Go to infowars.com or prisonplanet.com know what they’re planning for us on 2012!!! fight back!! the infowars!!!! are on!!

  • beatNutss

    These evil folks here at riaa are serious and this little threat about 2012 is very real. Go to infowars.com or prisonplanet.com know what they’re planning for us on 2012!!! fight back!! the infowars!!!! are on!!

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="268326"]Why is stealing music ok?
    then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?

    who is teaching the future generations here?

    sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.[/quote]

    I am thinking about the artists. I pay for my music. When possible I buy directly from the artist’s web site and avoid the large labels. I am 100% for making sure my favorite artists get their paychecks. It’s one of the reasons I can’t stand the RIAA. They’ve turned me against buying from major labels which means some artists are no longer getting paid because they are signed with those labels.

    This has been said time and time again. The RIAA is not the artist. They are not even the individual label. They are a group that supposedly represents the label’s interests and they are doing a very poor job of it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company so effectively drive an industry’s image into the ground since Sony BMG’s root kit disaster, which, ironically, had to do with DRM.

    The RIAA stopped working for the artist and became a tool for beating the consumer right about the time the Patriot Act came into force, so don’t cry ‘protect the artist’ here. This isn’t about the artist. This is about the RIAA trying to protect a dead format and business model by cluttering the legal system and lobbying congress. They are completely out of touch. They’d have you believe that the theft of IP is more important than any other crime facing society. Yes. Right. Absolutely. There’s no hint of insanity there. None at all. Let’s waste all our resources on hunting down people downloading songs because it’s a risk to the nation!!! Yes, it might be costing the companies money, but I don’t see other stores and retailers using congress to lobby for resources to help enforce shoplifting laws. Hmmm.

    They’ve yet to realize that they can’t resurrect the cd by suing college students and the disabled.

    I might not agree with the some of the more radical opinions on here but I certainly do not agree with anything the RIAA has done since they went on the warpath against anyone who dared to listen to music without allowing a root kit on their pc in the past 5 years.

  • Pistol

    Dammit, i missed a good laugh :(

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  • Anonymous

    [quote]I realize most people don’t want to think about this in more than terms of “wah, I can’t just indiscriminately download music, in violation of current copyright law, without worrying about the RIAA looking over my shoulder”, but if you’re ever hoping your balls will drop and that you’ll be perceived as a man and not just a boy, you need to start thinking about how the rest of the population – that doesn’t do p2p – is going to think about it.[/quote]

    So wait, you’re saying that it’s real men who care what others think of them?

    [quote]Go ahead and keep stealing music, you inconsiderate idiots. [/quote]

    I’m sorry to tell you but it is not possible to steal something by copying it over the internet.

    [quote]I play in a reggae/ska band and thanks to the likes of things like bittorrent we played a tour in Japan a few months ago. Why? because a bunch of music LOVERS from Japan started downloading our tracks, and we gained a following.[/quote]

    I have to say, just hearing that makes me really happy inside.

    Real artists benefiting from sharing… I love it, you guys are the ones that DESERVE to benefit.

  • LoX

    A hilarious article, I must say. Congrats to the anonymous few in their successful endeavor.

  • Slim

    [quote comment="268480"][quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
    so yea supposedly the apocalypse according to the mayans is going to happen that year so r they saying that were all going to die damn riaa u guys are fucked up for wishing that upon us well u guys arent going to last long i bet u guys are going to die out before that lol[/quote]

    The Presidential, senate elections are also in late 2012. Who knows? They might bribe themselves into the goverment?

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  • Anon

    RIAA needs to back the fuck off. Piracy may be hurting the recording industry, but I’d laugh at the face of the RIAA if they were to realize that this piracy is what has sold so many iPods, Zunes, high definition televisions, even broadband internet service.

  • Dapipminmonkey

    Just goes to show, you push a group of people… they’re bound to start pushing back…

    *tsk tsk*

  • oneplusone

    [quote comment="268397"]@Retard above me (#75)

    You just don’t get the idea of filesharing do you? The more we share, the more people will download. And the more people download, the more known artists become. The way the music industry is know, all the cash goes to douchebags in suits and not to the people who actually have the talent. With filesharing, these artists are able to get their music out to the world without paying the salaries of said suited douchebags, and once they are known, then they can begin to make money.

    A recording is just a promotional tool. Music lives on stage, not trapped between the layers of a CD.[/quote]

    I agree. And consumers will dictate what’s good. Not some fat old walking tummy-tucked face-lift victim hidden in a cloistered ivory tower.

  • oneplusone

    [quote comment="268583"][quote comment="268480"][quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
    so yea supposedly the apocalypse according to the mayans is going to happen that year so r they saying that were all going to die damn riaa u guys are fucked up for wishing that upon us well u guys arent going to last long i bet u guys are going to die out before that lol[/quote]

    The Presidential, senate elections are also in late 2012. Who knows? They might bribe themselves into the goverment?[/quote]

    I think that’s what the wanger’s on about. You are entirely correct, likely.

    And they try to shame us into being ‘moral’…. Fuck…

  • hahaha

    ‘meow’ lmaoooo

  • Topaz

    RIAA has to realize that the days of artists making millions are over!

    The RIAA and artists better get used to making less money just like everybody else does.

  • Eric B

    Let me summarize:

    Not only are the RIAA effectively criminals, think “organized crime”, and such, but also so are the people who are downloading music that is not supposed to be freely redistributable.

    BOTH. Criminals.

    There seems to be a huge sentiment here that all the RIAA promotes is junk, therefore it is alright to steal from them. Or that because you don’t like their business techniques it becomes alright to steal from them.

    Why would you steal junk?

    If you don’t like Wal-mart, you don’t go and steal from them .. you just don’t go and buy stuff from them.

    No matter what you feel, if you are redistributing things that are not freely re-distributable, you are doing it in violation of the laws of the country (at least within the US), so good luck with whatever comes out of that.

  • Nico

    Karma

  • Hackz0r

    Quite funny, Ive as of lately been learning about SQL injections, im surprised the RIAA site was vulnerable . This tips me off to other anti-p2p groups ill look into ;)

  • I

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]

    :O You mean Dec. 21st, 2012? Zomg, epic birthday! If you are really RIAA, what are you going to do? Make the world go into a great depression by suing everyone?

    I wonder who did the hacking though. xD

  • Theunknown

    hackz0r do you best mate, bring those fucking anti-p2p corporations down.

  • Anonymous

    Go get em Hackz0r!

    Fuck the RIAA, Fuck em where it hurts!

  • fedor

    Companies like the RIAA think we steal, you wouldn’t steal from someone’s wallet, right? But For Fucks Sake! We COPY MUSIC!!! Not steal. Copying = Sharing.
    Stealing = Taking
    See the difference, RIAA?
    We Copy and Share Music. How is Sharing Illegal?
    Taking Money from someones wallet is stealing.

  • willy

    This is SPARTAAAAA!

  • fedor

    Ok, they fixed the XSS now.

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  • juggalotus

    Why is stealing music ok? I’ll tell you why, look at all these artists we got putting out CRAPPY cd’s with 1 or 2 good songs on them, just so they can make a buck for there record company. Mainstream music is pathetic and it makes me sick. I will show as many of my friends as I can how to download music and movies.

  • criminalISMO

    RIAA owned. Who’s next?

  • Anonymous

    You are all thieves. Before all this piracy I made approx. $30 million per year. Now I’m lucky to make $15 million per year.

    How the FudK and i supposed to live on that and support my family.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="268730"]You are all thieves. Before all this piracy I made approx. $30 million per year. Now I’m lucky to make $15 million per year.

    How the FudK and i supposed to live on that and support my family.[/quote]

    Actually work.

  • orz

    so pwned. die riaa

  • uk_pirate

    to all those who consider filesharers thieves:
    1) theft can only be successfully prosecuted if it is proven that there is “intent to permanently deprive” someone of something. o noezz!! he b stealin my erm….oh, right
    2)bits = information. information is without boundaries.
    3) many filesharers (myself included) support artists by going to gigs. you buy a c.d. for £15, much of which goes to the MAFIAA. I buy tickets at £40 each, most of which goes to the artist. I’m lucky enough to live near the best arena in europe, I go to LOTS of live events. I’m the thief?

  • Warm For Your Form

    [quote comment="268618"]There seems to be a huge sentiment here that all the RIAA promotes is junk, therefore it is alright to steal from them. Or that because you don’t like their business techniques it becomes alright to steal from them.

    Why would you steal junk?

    If you don’t like Wal-mart, you don’t go and steal from them .. you just don’t go and buy stuff from them.[/quote]
    If you look at the most popular torrents on public trackers, both music and movies, it’s always utter trash.

    I suspect a lot of downloading is done simply as a hording action and that they wouldn’t otherwise listen or purchase that movie/album if it wasn’t readily available. Let’s not forget that a lot of popular music/movies are good ratio boosters on private sites, though the most popular albums on OiNK were rarely Top10 music.

    Of course there’s the other side of the coin that lots of people have a rubbish taste in music and movies. Those people are rarely vocal on torrent news sites though.

  • Warm For Your Form

    [quote comment="268734"]3) many filesharers (myself included) support artists by going to gigs. you buy a c.d. for £15, much of which goes to the MAFIAA. I buy tickets at £40 each, most of which goes to the artist. I’m lucky enough to live near the best arena in europe, I go to LOTS of live events. I’m the thief?[/quote]
    I bought every Metallica album, attended several concerts and bought a few tour shirts until they banned me from Napster.

    Since that day, I haven’t gone to a single Metallica concert, haven’t bought a single Metallica CD and threw out all my Metallica shirts. I’ve downloaded all their albums they released since that day (which have all been shit, nice work guys) and didn’t pay to watch their movie.

    Treat a loyal fan like shit after I had spent hundereds of dollars on them, what do you expect? What an ass backwards methodology.

  • As a corrupt industry slowly dies……..

    [quote comment="268498"]I know it’s a wall of text but it’s worth the read

    http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html/quote

    Thanks. It’s not just worth it, this should be essential reading. Best thing I’ve read on the issue in quite a while.

  • Monster_mack

    lol

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="268323"]your ALL just a bunch of thieving little bastards![/quote]

    ha ha pwnd -twat!

  • Brosef McNuttyfuck

    lol

  • legalize!

    California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008

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    If passed, marijuana will become legal in California!

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="268730"]You are all thieves. Before all this piracy I made approx. $30 million per year. Now I’m lucky to make $15 million per year.

    How the FudK and i supposed to live on that and support my family.[/quote]

    Give them to me and ill make profit of 550% for you in a week.

  • ???

    There is no such thing as stealing
    what they calling stealing from us is what they called profits
    what we call sharing they call stealing
    its a very bias term used to label others they dislike
    its like calling african american “black”
    which is hypocritical
    we must educate the mass as well because they are being misguided by these nazi corporate using very misleading terms to suit their agenda of controlling our behaviors

  • big bong load

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    It will also include amnesty, immediate release from prison, jail, parole, and probation, and clearing, expungement, and deletion of all criminal records for all persons currently charged with, or convicted of any non-violent cannabis hemp marijuana offense.”

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  • SATE

    OWNED!

  • As a corrupt industry slowly dies……..

    Good article on the MD hack.

    http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/01/14/Media-Defenders-Profile

    The title of the article says it all. Yarr!

  • NinjaLlama

    That officially has made today awesome. Frickin RIAA.

  • leviathan400

    great work! RIAA sux

  • nobody

    Hey, off topic here, but has anyone else noticed that Moviex.info is up to its old tricks again, stealing bandwidth from the public trackers for their private one?

  • D

    Now they’ll go after:
    TinyURL
    Reddit
    Digg

  • casey

    pwn’d like lil kiddies on cod4 tryin to no scope me across the map

  • Anonymous

    pwn3d!

  • Brosef McNuttyfuck

    [quote comment="268958"]pwn’d like lil kiddies on cod4 tryin to no scope me across the map[/quote]
    omfg dats fukkn pwnish ryt dere

  • haywire

    ;-)

  • mim

    ha i missed it :(

  • Zimmy

    +10 to whoever did that :)

  • Nick
  • Anthrax

    AHAHAHAHAHA!!! I LOVE THESE GUYS!!! RIAA FUCK YOUUUUUU!!!

  • dumb motherfucker

    what the fuck is riaa

  • chaotic

    i really enjoy watching a corporate entity, whose sole means of support is money they rip from artists, call me a thief for downloading music that i have already purchased. almost all of the music i have helped seed have been downloaded because CDs are so easily destroyed. i buy a CD and a month later its scratched or has some mysterious skipping, am i supposed to go spend another $20 because a corporation made a bad product? or is there some kind of solution free people have come up with to protect us from bad overpriced merchandise.

    then this same corporate entity tells me im stealing from the creators. these lawyers can only create arbitrary laws, not art, which gives them no right to comment on how art is distributed. if one cannot do, one makes laws to prevent others from doing as well. please folks go read some books, maybe some philosophy, something that will introduce you to the idea that an unjust government is something to be destroyed (see our own constitution for this specific point).

    allow me to quote from the New Hampshire Bill of Rights (1784):
    Article 10. Right of Revolution: Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the whole community and not for the interests or emoluments of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

    my paraphrased version of that is: when a government built to protect becomes a tool of corporate, military backed, state sponsored oppression and mind control, then it is the purpose of free people to destroy the entrenched status quo. rebuilding is easy once the ignorant and power hungry are gone. (if you are one who is sitting there and saying the people will turn riotous or revert to your concept of anarchy, then you are in fact part of the problem and will not be around for the solution, so don’t try to start thinking now, just relax your pretty little head, the adults are in control now) to all of my pirate brethren, all my respect and wishes for success tenfold, somehow someway someday we will find the way and earn back our freedom.

  • DR

    FOr all those that defended the RIAA, I should point out they are stealing the royalties of indy labels that arent member of the RIAA. Now they claim they will deliver these royalties, but you have to become a member of RIAA to do so. Otherwise the money goes in their pockets.

    http://gundampilotspaz.com/2007/04/29/riaa-to-collect-money-for-independant-non-riaa-artists/

    To me, downloading a song for free is a lot less severe than collecting money for something you dont own, especially if you will go see their show or support in other ways.

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  • Death To Spammers!

    [quote comment="269070"]Comedy Gold.

    http://www.trinitycommercial.com/quote

    Eat shit and die spammer.

  • ibz

    the hackers shouldve done this…hacked the site and put some links to mp3s….then WE ( read normal ppl) could sue them for copyright infringement.hahahah

  • me

    awsome!

  • bd

    [quote comment="268361"][quote comment="268326"]Why is stealing music ok?
    then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?

    who is teaching the future generations here?

    sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.[/quote]

    Wow, I’m in music too – I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for you right now ;p[/quote]

    I have to agree here, I’ve been in music for years. I don’t think priacy is good, but when you look at how the RIAA are treating the musicians and customers, I can think it’s justified in many cases. Look at the big name musicians that are even critical of them and think about it. I for one hate paying $16-20USD for a cd that the musician only gets pennies from. now, pirating from a small indy type label is something I can’t see, but they tend to treat everyone much better.

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  • LMFAO

    Hey, Retard Industry Association of America, you got your little punk asses pwned big time.

  • LMFAO

    pwned

  • LOL

    [quote comment="269493"]pwned[/quote]

    Yes their little punk asses got pwned. How do you like that Retard Industry Association of America. Yahboo sucks!!

  • :-:

    Retard Industry Association of America got pwned :-) Does your programmer still have a job?

  • :-:

    Hey RIAA, lameness is no excuse

  • Karl

    BURN RIAA! BURN !!

  • NatureBoy

    What should have been done was after cleaning the site up ..Hackers should have uploaded a movie and should have started a seed from there own server installing some rootkit torrent and then asked them to sue themselves ..or better make MPAA sue RIAA and make them suck their own CUNT….

  • 1

    hack them all!

  • Free Pirate Allaince

    i like the last screenshot there, specifically the error message, lol

  • Google

    I Think Ä°t is very good information…

    Webmaster

  • Stebenwulf

    HACK THE PLANET! :D
    LoL
    That was nice to Riaa (or about 90% of the internet lik’d it)

  • JESTER

    THE RIAA IS A BUENCH OF OUTDATASSED OLD ASSHOLES. I RECOMMEND THAT NO ONE PAY FOR ANY MUSIC OF ANYKIND. – THEY RIP OFF THE ARTISTS AND MAKE THEIR MONEY BY BEING A PARASITE LIVING OFF THE TALENT OF OTHERS. I CALL ON ANYONE WITH BOTS TO CONTINUE
    D-DOSING THEM AND KEEPING THEIR SITE OFF LINE. HEY CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE BABY FIGHT THE BASTARDS

  • Jester

    Sry about the caps wasen’t looking when typing.

  • Bigstack

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]

    LMAO… Tust me anything that you try to do (if your programers can even come up with anything) it will be overcome within days. It is amazing to me that most of ur cases are actually fake and that people dont do what you said they did. (You said my frined downloaded a movie that was 184 KB in size.. LMAO do i need to teach someone about file sizes) I would say come to my house and ill make a fool out of you. Anyway someone should put together a big class action suit agains these fake bastards and show them that unlike them who hide behinde there desks and accuse people all day that we can fight back.

  • Bigstack

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]

    Looks like they sent their best and brightest to represent.

  • Zythrix

    Man. This shit is simply too good.

    YOHO YOHO AND BLOW THE MAN DOWN

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  • yaya

    2012 = end of the world according to mayan prophecy, that is all this idiot is going on about, nothing to do with the mafiaa. Look it up if you can be assed.

  • GracieMagdalene

    [quote comment="268730"]You are all thieves. Before all this piracy I made approx. $30 million per year. Now I’m lucky to make $15 million per year.

    How the FudK and i supposed to live on that and support my family.[/quote]

    I LOLed at this. Really hard.

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  • Surfer

    Fantastic news.

    I love it.

    -Surfer

  • Surfer

    BTW…

    …the RIAA is the devil.

    Long Live *the orginal* Napster.

    -Surfer

  • Surfer

    [b]>Why is stealing music ok?[/b]

    Define stealing.

    [b]>then its ok to go grab your
    paycheck from your mailbox right [/b]

    Weak analogy.

    [b]>who is teaching the future
    generations here?[/b]

    Hopefully note Entitlement_Minded
    overpaid, ungrateful egomaniacs.

    -Surfer

  • Anonymous

    Right . Major anti p2p victory . This is probably the final blow , they oughta be comatose by now .
    Get a grip ppl , it`s only a minor inconvenience to them anyway . While you`re laughing your butts off they`re merrily screwing some poor slob`s life just enough to get themselves a better database programmer

  • Rod

    We are teaching future generations that communication is essential to human beings and that it cannot be stopped, only delayed.

    We are also teaching them that sharing of information leads to greater works of art and music.

    Labels bend over artists during negotiations thats #1, Artists do not make that much off the sale of a CD #2, Lets assume that they did I really do not feel sorry for the likes of Pdidy, Madonna, etc etc when they buy a plane ticket to a cake, and island to their 10 year old or 15 hummers with spinners thats #3. We are already getting treated like pirates and thieves so we might as well pirate stuff #4, YOU ARE DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING, IE: RIAA TYPE ORGANIZATION STEALING CODE FROM LINUX #5.

    Also, if an artist is dead then how can they lose money? It is not like Kurt is going to buy presents for Courtney from the other side…. So suits get paid for what they did not create nor inspired but hey we gotta pay them so they can dig up kurt and put the greenbacks in his pockets.

    Yeah get bent RIAA…. You are not one bit concerned about the artists. You are just pissed off you are losing money but cant really say anything else other than “OH you pirates are hurting the artists”

    You know whats great tough? Even if you found a way to stop piracy, there would be so much user created movies, artworks and music to keep us pirates busy and stop buying your junk…… guess what it would be legal and I will bet you anything that you would use this user created media………..

  • james

    [quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
    jlpo

  • Anonymous

    >While you`re laughing your butts
    off they`re merrily screwing some poor slob`s life just enough to get
    themselves a better database
    programmer

    And your point is what?

    Do you support the RIAA?

    Let me take the lead here…

    …IMO the RIAA is big brother realized.

    This is not a test. They hold up
    archaic and completely outdated
    copyright law as a shield to justify
    their profit_obsessed_greed_driven
    jihad against technology.

    Copyright law is throughly outdated
    in todays digitally_connected world.

    The Greatful Dead got it right…

    …the RIAA should learn from their
    success.

    -Surfer

  • LordFlipper

    I just want to say Congratulations to all concerned. This was a ‘funny’ event, and, no doubt, it was a fun exercise for the principles involved. And I’m all for ‘fun’, you know, but it’s a war out there. Radiohead, the Grateful Dead, and many others, already know what time it is. And as for the Industry, they see the writing on the wall, and choose to blindly, stupidly, reinforce the wall, itself, instead. To Hell with them. They’re history. The future belongs to all of us; The creators of all works, the consumers of ‘versions’ of those works, and the lovers and sharers of those works. Onward!

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    THE INTERNET WARS HAVE BEGUN…

    RIAA VS HACKERS AND PIRATES OF THE WORLD….

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    Ah, serves them right.

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  • Anonymous

    way to go whoever crashed that site there needs to be more people like him that is so funny tho

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  • go figure

    What a bunch of immature freaks. You should be thinking about how you’re going to pay for your food and rent when your mommy gets tired of you and kicks your lazy ass out. Instead, you’re dwelling on ripping off the music industry, and how to damage web sites. What a bunch of mindless loosers. I hope you all get sued up the wazoo.

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  • Bigstack

    go figure
    Ur just upset cause u dont know anything about the computer. Do u know how to write code. Or how about bruteforceing.

  • leeami

    [quote comment="268406"]musicians shouldn’t expect a cd to support their families. they should be out playing their music across the world every day without a family to worry about in the first place.[/quote]
    Exactly! Spot on.
    These people that say they’re ‘artists’ or ‘musicians’ blah blah…obviously aren’t….if they were, they’d know the drill.
    Get off ya asses and do gigs! I’ve been there….done that.
    It’s called ‘working for you wages’.

  • b00t2ben

    die mega-arsehole bitch

  • ~

    someone should hack them so millions of mp3s are downloaded using their ip, and sue them for copyright infringement :D

  • Cyrus

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer mob, and many happy returns. To everyone trying vainly to convince the mobsters that sharing is not stealing; don’t bother. It’s their propaganda warcry. When a lie is repeated often enough it is believed, as attested by history. When they feel they are losing money (making less), instead of blaming themselves for their poor image and crap products, they look to the source of least resistance to squarely place the blame. We their customers. To this end they rabidly pursue, bully, victimize, harass etc etc until their profits start rising again. They realize that all this will lessen sales a little also and so the solution is to inflate prices even further, along with litigation, which has become their secondary source of “income”. To all the lamers & trolls – [nothing]

    To the moron who said ‘how’d u like me to come to your house & steal your stuff’. You already do, that’s why the attitude.

  • Cyrus again

    No they don’t even care if we die, so why should we care about them at all? When they hound some poor child to death, they then turn to his family to steal their assets, all because he/she may have posted a few rapidshare links. Tell me why file storers are untouched and thriving at the same time? Copyright/royalty enforcement=Internet death, end of cultural exchange, freedom of speech and artistic expression. Media cartels rule the world!? But not, just a pipe dream ..

  • Blindside

    The RIAA is such a joke. Nothing can stop the bitorrent movement. There will always be a way to get shit for free on the internet.

  • Blindside

    [quote comment="288222"]go figure
    Ur just upset cause u dont know anything about the computer. Do u know how to write code. Or how about bruteforceing.[/quote]

    Bruteforceing? ROFL!

  • Blindside

    Their site got defeated by a SQL injection,… WOW, maybe they should focus a little more on their website

  • ChongerBonger

    This is a very interesting read. I was also looking for shopping cart software the other day in torrentfreak lol.

  • kingsford

    hi i need a hacker
    who will give me billing cards

  • kingsford

    yu can mail me at bonka_baby_love@yahoo.com
    if yu have a hacker for me to work with

  • PAin

    riaa will never work

  • Wiz-Kid

    phuck da RIAA. p2p livez muthaphuck3rz

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  • Jimbo

    they ar called Crakers not hackers!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    kidded jumping.religious speculates silencer flowchart commendation,admixed

  • R. Hughes

    That’s crazy! Scary!

    R. Hughes
    Production Music Library

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  • Alan

    interesting..

  • Anonymous

    anionic shrank.navigates conciseness contacted collision smuggling!bistate!

  • spielbank on line

    fainted pond?anchors intensify,tradition seethe,LaTeX counterexamples,imperial

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  • http://fmdonline.com james

    hahahahaha!!!!

  • Igor

    no one likes them, not even the programmers they hire!.

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