Anonymous retaliates against Megaupload take down

You should be doing something about it. And you’re gonna listen to me.

The last two days have been wild in teh intrawebs. After Megaupload’s takedown (and, as misty as it is, you should realize that “piracy” is the least of the charges), Anonymous have taken revenge taking down several websites. While this is a slap in the wrist of these organizations, it’s a lot more than changing your avatar or profile pic as a “protest”. 

The government does not need a SOPA, or PIPA or whatever they will call it. They can literally seize domains and take down websites at will. This cyberwar, so to speak, needs your support. Perhaps you’re scared to join up. Perhaps you have no idea how to take part in a distributed denial of service attack. Spread the awareness: people will join up. This is a war that’s already won: there is no way they can stop the masses as a whole. You can’t hide knowledge and the big corporations feeding us shit for entertainment will eventually break down when “posting loses of a zillion dollars” doesn’t really keeps them afloat. Because they should be honored someone took some of their bandwidth and time to watch, play, or listen to the shit they feed us.

Movies still make millions when they are worth it. Fucking Call of Duty 4 made more money than Avatar, and that’s over 1 billion dollars. Lady Gaga wipes her ass with dollar bills and Trent Reznor has enough money to give his music away for free, despite his net worth being notably small for someone of his stature.

The whole reaction has been positive for the movement. Despite what you might think, the vast majority of internet users have little to no knowledge about direct download piracy. Now the media has given them a new source. Besides, do you realize how little does direct download piracy accounts to it all? 10% perhaps?

A DDoS isn’t damaging, but what comes out of it can be. This isn’t a war for the lulz or for the download of your favorite TV series. This is a war for the freedom of the internet. Do your part. Do something. Even if that something is just writing on a blog about it. Stop being slackers and thinking you do something, because this is a battle you can take part in.

I just hope this is a protest that lasts long enough and has enough of an impact to make the dumbasses that still support the MPAA and RIAA and all those fucking acronyms rethink their ways.