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Gene Simmons

7 (9.1%)

Anonymous

33 (42.9%)

The FBI

7 (9.1%)

None, they're all wasting their time and money.

30 (39%)

Total Members Voted: 77

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yep! You heard it here first folks, the first real internet fight of the New Tens is on!

[KaminaSquirtle]

Should be interesting to watch, if nothing else.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I'm torn between Anonymous and waste of time and money.

...I'm going with Anonymous. It'll just be a phyrric victory.

EDIT:

[Criptfeind]

The thing is annoying anonymous can not lose or win. Because it has no lose condition or win condition.

Obviously Gene has already lost and the FBI are...

...

The FBI have the same as anonymous.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't think so. Gene could lose by having his internet presence destroyed, accounts hacked, ect. Anonymous could lose by having a number of members who attacked Simmons be fined/jailed. The FBI...well, no matter what happens, you will always have FBI, but they could lose by getting kicked out of the investigation.

[Cthulhu]

I don't think so. Gene could lose by having his internet presence destroyed, accounts hacked, ect. Anonymous could lose by having a number of members who attacked Simmons be fined/jailed. The FBI...well, no matter what happens, you will always have FBI, but they could lose by getting kicked out of the investigation.

And have who take over?

[KaminaSquirtle]

The most the FBI could conceivably lose is money.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Who knows who would take over? No one? Gene could probably have them removed from the case seeing as they're helping him, or the individual agents themselves could be ordered off by their superiors.

That reminds me, haven't Anonymous and the FBI acted together to a degree in the past? I could have sworn I heard they sent them information about that girl who put a cat in the microwave as she was robbing her friend's house.

[Urist Imiknorris]

The most the FBI could conceivably lose is money.

I would want my money to be put toward constructive ends, not ineffectively trying to take down an unorganized group waging a shadow war against a portion of the ultra-rich.

[Aklyon]

I think MSH is right about the cat.

[Aqizzar]

How many actual people are ever really involved in these "Anonymous", "Operation Payback" bullshit-collectives?  A few dozen, maybe?

Like the Scientologists and furries and Metallica before Simmons, eventually it won't be a news story anymore, and the script kiddies will move on to new targets.  Soon enough, mentioning Gene Simmons in the circles in question will bring cries of "whatever newfag, nobody cares about that shit anymore", and Gene Simmons will still be alive and rich.

[KaminaSquirtle]

I didn't mean that losing money wouldn't be bad, I was merely pointing out the downside.  So, basically, the FBI always loses.  But not as hard as Anonymous could, i.e. getting thrown in jail.

[Aklyon]

I saw this on Ars Technica before the escapist, fyi.

[Urist Imiknorris]

But not as hard as Anonymous could, i.e. getting thrown in jail.

Anonymous as a whole is far too large and decentralized/disorganised for such a fate. It may befall some of them, but the force as a whole will remain almost unaltered.

[Aqizzar]

Yes, it's lovely to throw around terms like that, but I ask again how many people we're really talking about here.  That's how legal punishment works - not everyone who breaks the speed limit will be caught and punished, most of the time that you speed you won't get caught, but the punishment is supposed to be bad enough to make you afraid of trying.  And watching a few of their neckbeard pals get strung up the flagpole by the FBI will probably put some starch in the shorts of everyone else involved in the DDoS stuff.  They're only human after all.