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www.megaupload.com on maas. Well done SOPA. Fucked up.
www.megaupload.com on maas. Well done SOPA. Fucked up.
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Retaliatory attacks by 'Anonymous'
The action against Megaupload took place just hours after the mass online Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) protest. Shortly afterwards, the the US Department of Justice's website and a number of other organizations' websites were taken offline following concerted attacks from activist group Anonymous.
Barrett Brown, a spokesperson for the group, described the attacks as "the single largest Internet attack in [the group's] history" in an interview with news outlet RT, adding that it was "a terrible case of happenstance that federal agents went after Megaupload only hours after the thousands of sites protesting in an anti-SOPA blackout went back online. Web surfers were by-and-far ready to defend an open Internet ... the feds 'could not have chosen a worst time to take down Megaupload'."[33] He noted that from commencement until the point the government's web servers were offline was a mere 70 minutes.[33]
Besides the US Department of Justice's justice.gov, websites targeted early in the attack included Universal Music Group, a SOPA supporter and the largest record label in America, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and finally FBI.gov. “Even without SOPA having been passed yet, the federal government always had tremendous power to do some of the things that they want to do. So if this is what can occur without SOPA being passed, imagine what can occur after SOPA is passed,” Brown told RT.
The action against Megaupload took place just hours after the mass online Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) protest. Shortly afterwards, the the US Department of Justice's website and a number of other organizations' websites were taken offline following concerted attacks from activist group Anonymous.
Barrett Brown, a spokesperson for the group, described the attacks as "the single largest Internet attack in [the group's] history" in an interview with news outlet RT, adding that it was "a terrible case of happenstance that federal agents went after Megaupload only hours after the thousands of sites protesting in an anti-SOPA blackout went back online. Web surfers were by-and-far ready to defend an open Internet ... the feds 'could not have chosen a worst time to take down Megaupload'."[33] He noted that from commencement until the point the government's web servers were offline was a mere 70 minutes.[33]
Besides the US Department of Justice's justice.gov, websites targeted early in the attack included Universal Music Group, a SOPA supporter and the largest record label in America, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and finally FBI.gov. “Even without SOPA having been passed yet, the federal government always had tremendous power to do some of the things that they want to do. So if this is what can occur without SOPA being passed, imagine what can occur after SOPA is passed,” Brown told RT.
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