Revenge of the pirates: Anonymous downs Pirate Bay censor

"We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets (sic), where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us.

“So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship."

Great statement from the TPB-crew there, for those who believe the Anonymous and the file-sharers are all the same bunch. Blocking or censoring content is not a good way of fighting what you disagree with. Fight back with openness and dialogue instead. Or as they continue on their Facebook-page:

"If you want to help; start a tracker, arrange a manifestation, join or start a pirate party, teach your friends the art of bittorrent, set up a proxy, write your political representatives, develop a new p2p protocol, print some pro piracy posters and decorate your town with, support our promo bay artists or just be a nice person and give your mom a call to tell her you love her."

This is horrible reporting. First the headline states Anonymous targeted someone. Then they say this someone incurred the wrath of both Anonymous and The Pirate Bay which implies that TPB had something to do with it. Finally they post a statement from TPB that they specifically had nothing to do with it. They do not give the TPB statement as an update so they knew from the beginning that TPB was not involved, but implied it anyway. They even decided to make TPB part of the "hacking collective", since when is TPB a group of hackers?

I don't see the point in doing this anyway. Virgin was following a court order and had no choice in the matter. Plus, what change are they hoping for by bringing down a website? Big deal. Bringing down websites is what children did in the 90s, it will change nothing.

Virgin Media seem like an odd target frankly, they're complying with a court order, they literally have no choice in the matter. (Unless I missed details in the court proceedings and Virgin were actively pushing for this?)

They are idiots, should be hitting the justice site or the people who brought the court order about in the first place. Hitting Virgin for complying with a court judgement which they initially opposed is rediculous.