2 Lulzsec members plead guilty!

[spider-prime]

... to some of the charges.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...s-plead-guilty

For the Lulz indeed! So hardee harddeee HAREEE... Mmmm burgers.

Two men suspected of hacking Sony and other video game companies have pleaded guilty to a raft of charges.
At Southwark Crown Court today 19-year-old Ryan Cleary and 18-year-old Jake Davis admitted being members of Anonymous spin-off Lulzsec, a hacker group that was blamed for a number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on video game companies throughout 2011.
Cleary, who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and Davis pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to do an unauthorised act or acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, the operation of a computer or computers.
However, they deny the allegation they posted "unlawfully obtained confidential computer data" on the internet.
Two other alleged hackers, 25-year-old Ryan Ackroyd and a 17-year-old whose identity remains a secret, deny hacking charges.
Lulzsec is suspected of being responsible for attacks on Sony, Nintendo, Bethesda, Minecraft, League of Legends and Eve Online.
Cleary was arrested in June 2011 and released on bail after being banned from accessing the internet. He was later jailed after breaching that condition. A trial date has been set for April 2013. All apart from Cleary were released on bail.

[calintz]

lulzsec is still relevant?

[spider-prime]

apparently so!

[KingOfSentinels]

im gonna hack joo

[Chronos]

HACK THE PLANET!

[progmetal]

FOOK YOU!

[Chronos]

how dare you talk to your father this way.

[justin_credible]

How can you ban someone from the internet? Internet has become like television, everyone has it. They never banned anyone from tv, though.

[Escaflowne2001]

Hacker collective Anonymous has declared open season on the Japanese government for its passage of a draconian ban on illegal downloads and ripping, briefly taking down several government websites in a series of cyber-attacks.

The “Personal Illegal Downloads Punishment Act,” was recently proposed by the opposition LDP and their cultist stooges the Koumeito, and sailed through the Diet with no debate or opposition – 221 for, versus 12 against, with only the fringe left-wing maniacs of the Communists and Social Democrats, and a single Democrat, voting against.

As might be expected, the music industry’s belief that it will miraculously boost its declining sales was the most vocally espoused argument in favour of the law.

The most significant provision of the law is to punish offences of unauthorised downloads of copyrighted commercial audiovisual content with a maximum of 2 years in jail and ¥2,000,000 in fines.

The law also bans all ripping where it involves circumventing a protection system – which, in the best tradition of poorly conceived laws, apparently manages to leave ripping audio CDs legal as there is no protection system involved, whilst banning all format shifting of DVDs and BDs.

The download portion of the law comes into effect in October, whilst the ripping ban is due in January.

Some summary points about the “illegal download” law as it is currently understood:

Downloading copyrighted material was already technically illegal since 2010, but no penalties were attached

The law only applies to commercially (paid-for) distributed copyrighted audiovisual recordings

As a result the law actually leaves games, software, manga and text out – all these are still “legal” to download illegally

There are mixed opinions as to whether “downloading” includes caching or streaming – it has been pointed out that it may well ban YouTube if it does, and the final decision probably rests with police and how much they want to arrest a given person

It is a “shinkokuzai” law – for police to act, there has to be a complaint from a victim

This means police need a specific complaint to act upon – it seems unlikely copyright holders will be able to obtain this kind of information themselves in the case of private downloads, although public downloads are another matter

However, police have shown themselves willing to independently goad copyright holders into pressing charges by providing them with information from unrelated cases

As it potentially criminalises most of the computer-using population of Japan, there is some suspicion that police intend to use their new powers either to bring additional charges against people whose computers they have seized as a matter of course, or to initiate house searches in the hopes of finding additional offences with which to charge victims.

If Japanese police follow their typical pattern of behaviour (as they have done with uploaders), they will likely not crack down hard on all downloaders and infringing sites, but instead make occasional examples of offenders, or use the law to bring extra charges against people arrested for other reasons (handy if the original charges do not stick and thought to be a means of point-scoring for officers and prosecutors) or against sites considered inconvenient.

In response to all this, Anonymous has reared its ugly head, issuing an “official” press release in which it throws down the gauntlet to the Japanese government, who are doubtless quaking in their various Tokyo mansions:

Greetings land of the rising sun, we are Anonymous.

In recent years the content industry, politicians, and governments throughout the world have dramatically increased their efforts to combat internet piracy and copyright infringement. Unfortunately in doing so they have often taken the wrong approach which has lead to draconian laws, infringements of basic rights, and severely stunting the growth of technological innovations.

Japan, home to some of the greatest technological innovations throughout history has now decided to go down the path as well and cave into the pressures of the content industry to combat piracy and copyright infringement. Earlier this week Japan approved an amendment to its copyright law which will give authorities the right to imprison citizens for up to two years simply for downloading copyrighted material

We at Anonymous believe strongly that this will result in scores of unnecessary prison sentences to numerous innocent citizens while doing little to solve the underlying problem of legitimate copyright infringement.

If this situation alone wasn’t horrible enough already, the content industry is now pushing ISPs in Japan to implement surveillance technology that will spy on and every single internet user in Japan. This would be an unprecedented approach and severely reduce the amount of privacy law abiding citizens should have in a free society.

To the government of Japan and the Recording Industry Association of Japan, you can now expect us the same way we have come to expect you in violating our basic rights to privacy and to an open internet.

We Are Anonymous
We Are Legion
We Do Not Forgive
We Do Not Forget
Expect Us

They have apparently wasted no time in making their presence felt – the websites of the Supreme Court of Japan, the Democratic Party of Japan and the Cabinet Office have all reportedly suffered DDoS attacks.

there back to.

[spider-prime]

Lulzsec is different from anonymous. It was anonymous members that gave up the lulzsec members, it's why they got caught. From what I remember anyways. I'm pretty sure they had their own little private hacker war and they gave out all their names to the FBI to go and arrest them.

[KingOfSentinels]

There is no 'Anonymous', it's not a group, Anonymous is a nothing, it's just a flag that any group/individual can wave to hide behind. It irks me when people portray Anonymous as some collective hacker group, when in reality 99% of people who say they're from Anonymous don't even know eachother.

But I find myself agreeing with them, to being opposed to the Law, and once again surprised how stupid Governments can be. Though I guess I should stop being surprised... I'm glad they're trying to stop piracy, but why does every anti-piracy Law screw over innocent people who don't pirate? It must be a mandatory ticky-box on every anti-piracy Law. Will fuck up everyone? Check. OKAY GREAT LETS GET THIS BAD BOY OUT!!!!!111ONEONE!1111

[Escaflowne2001]

That's OK, the proposed UK one is even worse your guilty untill proven innocent and you have to pay £20 to have the right to appeal it.

Guilty until you pay to prove yourself innocent - suspected eye-patch wearing internet pirates will soon face a £20 fee if they want to appeal against copyright infringement allegations.

Those alleged rum drinkers will have 20 days to appeal.

It's all part of revised plans to uphold and enforce the Digital Economy Act in the UK, the BBC reported. The new scheme is expected to begin in 2014.

If you're suspected of uploading or accessing illegally copied files - movies, games, music, etc. - your internet service provider will write you a letter. A serious letter with no jokes in.

You'll be told you're suspected of copyright infringement. And if you want to dispute it, you'll need to cough up £20.

Why dispute? If you receive three letters within a year, copyright owners can request details of accusations made against you - the account holder. But not your name - those kind of details will only be given after a court order is obtained. It's deliberately obtuse, so as to ensure only the "the most persistent alleged infringers" are hunted down.

Sounds like a lot of extra work for the ISPs.

Not only that, but ISPs also have to contribute to the cost of running the scheme. And they're expected to punish repeat offenders by throttling broadband speeds or by suspending accounts.

Will this affect broadband pricing?

The notion of making "suspected" - and still innocent - people pay to defend themselves has, understandably, gone down like a lead balloon with campaign group Consumer Focus.

"Copyright infringement is not to be condoned," CEO Mike O'Connor said, "but people who are innocent should not have to pay a fee to challenge accusations.

"Twenty pounds may sound like a small sum, but it could deter those living on low-incomes from challenging unfair allegations."

Tory bloke Ed Vaizey, Creative Industries Minister, said, "We must ensure our creative industries can protect their investment.

"They have the right to charge people to access their content if they wish, whether in the physical world or on the internet."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...end-themselves

[KingOfSentinels]

[spider-prime]

I would believe that they aren't actually a group if they didn't have IRC channels and websites and crap. They have higher ups that approve of certain acts done under their name and blah blah blah.