RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”
Written by Ernesto on January 20, 2008Apparently 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
RIAA supporting The Pirate Bay
Error?
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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.
Karma
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 ;)
[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
hackz0r do you best mate, bring those fucking anti-p2p corporations down.
Go get em Hackz0r!
Fuck the RIAA, Fuck em where it hurts!
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.
This is SPARTAAAAA!
Ok, they fixed the XSS now.
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.
RIAA owned. Who’s next?
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 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.
so pwned. die riaa
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?
[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.
[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.
[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.
lol
[quote comment="268323"]your ALL just a bunch of thieving little bastards![/quote]
ha ha pwnd -twat!
lol
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[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
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