Here's the "hacked" page, and here's a screenshot when that RIAA page gets taken down (click for larger image):
OK, it's more of a case sloppy coding than an actual hack. But the XCKD commentary was pitch perfect.
RIAA website hacked with XKCD
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Your title is a bit misleading. It seems like a hole in their coding practices, but the site is not hacked. Good find, nonetheless.
Au contrare mon ami! It seems some clever sods have still found a way to harass the RIAA after getting hold of this information.First, someone suggested using a query that ground the server to a halt, then someone else got malicious and wiped their database :( http://reddit.com/info/660oo/comments/
EPIC WIN! And a better message could not have been given. I love XKCD and that comic was just perfect for the task at hand.
If you ask me, the hackers should have done much more than just erase their databases & documents. They should have infected it with a virus so dangerous it would upload trojans & spyware by the second. The entertainment industry was fine until these corporate dinosaurs forced us to pay for music/movies. Paying for music is like paying for downloading Adobe Flash Player. Everyone knows its free, but some corrupted suits want to make money by making free stuff online illegal. It boils my blood! Its a redicules idea! The Internet is not a vending machine, its a source of unlimited information. These suits need to learn that treating the Internet like a vending machine is only going to hurt themselves! I hope the next time their site is hacked, their server crashes! Teach the RIAA not to miss with their consumers! I salute you hackers!
Haha, nice one!
I'm not sure I agree with the last comment that music should be treated as "free stuff" but they are corporate dinosaurs, and trying to force an old business model in a place where the consumer has more power is a futile task and only serves to do their trade damage.
If I like an artist, I will buy their CD to support them and to have my own disc and better quality sound.
MP3s get people into music and allow you to find artists you might otherwise have missed. Buying CDs keep your favourite artists around and so the music scene improves in the area you like.
Treating MP3 sharing as criminal, and not a means of promotion is where the RIAA are failing hard.
This is not a hack, that's completely misleading. It's not even an injection. Funny, but pointless, besides the fact that the hole is secure.
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