Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

January 13, 2009 -

The Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance apparently does a crackjack job of clamping down on bootleg IP in the Middle-East. But as far as protecting its own website?

Not so much...

TorrentFreak reports that the news section of the AAPA site fell victim to hackers and remains unfixed as of this report. The brag posted by the hackers (left) is dated January 6th.

From the TorrentFreak report:

While the AAA might do a good job at protecting the intellectual property of their clients, preventing their own website from being hacked seems to be a real challenge. For days now, the news section of the site has been stripped of all its content, displaying the following message: “hacked by ashiyane security team”.

When it comes to securing websites, anti-piracy outfits seem to fail time and time again. Last year, the RIAA website got hacked, and the IFPI and a Lithuanian anti-piracy outfit both lost their domain names to BitTorrent sites after they failed to renew their registrations. Perhaps they should consider investing a few of their hard earned dollars in a proper sysop.

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Re: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

Submitted by Wolvenmoon on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 18:04.

Ya know, people tend not to do what isn't blared in their faces all the time. "Don't download high quality DRM free music illegally."

"Wait, I can get this for free and they can't do jack shit about it? Alright!"

It's absolutely hilarious, this industry just encourages its pirates.

Re: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

Submitted by Conejo on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 18:30.

actually if more businesses went with the"take care of the customer and the customer will take care of you" route, they'd find less piracy. when you stop taking care of the customer, they'll take care of themselves first.

Here are we -- and yonder yawns the universe.

Re: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

Submitted by Wolvenmoon on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 01:08.

Well, yeah, but that won't happen. They've already shown themselves more than willing to go down flopping like a fish with gangrene.

U.S. has a total piracy rate of 20% (as measured by an industry looking to blame the U.S., can't remember where, google it if you want to check) , they should take that as a given. Most of the world's piracy is in countries like china. They can cut that piracy right out by removing unicode support in their games. No chinese language translation possible? Well, looks like the country with the 88% piracy is gonna pass up this software.

So if they lose 40% of their customers to regain a 20% total of pirates, doesn't that just leave them where they started, and with a worse image?

Re: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

Submitted by DeepThorn on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 10:39.

So that is what the pause/break key on my keyboard does...

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Re: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

Submitted by Derovius on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 10:27.

Israel did it.

Re: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

Submitted by Shadow D. Darkman on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 21:20.

Got proof, Mr. deoVIRUS Troll?

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Re: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Site Hacked

Submitted by Anomalous on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 09:57.

This is the internet, get used to it.

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