Ars reports:
The website of Argentina's equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America was hacked Tuesday and transformed into a Pirate Bay proxy, serving up torrents instead of industry lobbying affairs.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the intrusion of the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers' site, which went offline early Tuesday. TorrentFreak noted that the site was transformed into a Pirate Bay proxy for about 10 hours following the organization winning injunctions demanding that 11 ISPs block 256 IP addresses and 12 domains of the Pirate Bay.
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Music Industry's Anti-Piracy Site Hacked, Turned Into Pirate Bay Proxy
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 09 2014, @11:14AM
Report some news when an important country is affected, hmm? Thanks much.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by SpallsHurgenson on Wednesday July 09 2014, @01:06PM
Look, I'm not rooting for the pirates, nor the crackers who defaced the website. And God knows I can't stand up for an obsolete recording industry that has too-often manipulated law and artists solely for its own benefit, regardless of the cost to the performers or society. Frankly, I think both sides of the argument are more often in the wrong than the right.
But this is an epic hack. You can't help but smile when you read about it. It is illegal, and wrong and the recording industry will definitely take the wrong lesson from it, but this was brash, clever and funny. Argue however you will about the merits of their cause, these guys definitely did something memorable.
(Score: 3) by present_arms on Wednesday July 09 2014, @02:44PM
I'll be honest, I'm still smiling over it, too funny and ironic
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 1) by sporkbender on Wednesday July 09 2014, @03:11PM
Cheers
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday July 09 2014, @04:11PM
Yep, it provided today's karma's-a-bitch LOL moment!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TK-421 on Wednesday July 09 2014, @06:53PM
Agreed. IMHO what makes it epic is the use of absurdity to illustrate absurdity, that is to be so inept that you become exactly what you spend all of your energy (in a very vocal way) trying to destroy.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Wednesday July 09 2014, @07:44PM
So when is the website going to be added to the list of banned websites they just got pushed through? That's what this was all about, right? The hackers turned the "linked to infringing content" argument right around. It's a beautiful counterpoint, if a bit heavy-handed.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 1) by Fry on Thursday July 10 2014, @04:07AM
Too funny. Excellent work.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Sunday July 13 2014, @06:09PM
In addition to this being a really audacious move, it weakens many prosecutions because a defendant can advance the argument that they were hacked and, well, that could happen to anyone.
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