From: Russia Today
Internet strikes back: Anonymous' Operation Megaupload explained
Published: 20 January, 2012, 05:30
Federal agents executed a crackdown on the files sharing website Megaupload on Thursday. The response, you could say, was not minor.
Authorities attest that Megaupload, at one point the fifteenth most popular site on the Web, was guilty of costing copyright holders upwards of $500 million in lost revenues because users of the service can easily and freely upload and distribute pirated material. Four people were arrested in New Zealand Thursday as part of the sting, which also yielded the site going offline.
Given that Megaupload boasts an audience of 500 million users daily, a reaction was expected. Only minutes after the Web began digesting the news, that response came by way of thousands of upset users, many aligned to the online collective Anonymous.
The attack started swift and strong and only grew. First fell the website the US Department of Justice, justice.gov. Next was the site for Universal Music Group, a SOPA supporter and the largest record label in America.
Over the course of a few hours, hacktivists involved with the loose knit group Anonymous waged attacks on site after site, and before long the web presence for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Broadcast Music, Inc., or BMI, and finally FBI were down.
Anonymous calls it the single largest Internet attack in its history, and it crippled the biggest sites for the US government and entertainment industry.
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-barrettbrown-sopa-megaupload-241/
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SOPA backlash: Anonymous takes down Universal Music, Dept. of Justice sites
Erika Tucker, Global News : Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:45 PM
Read it on Global News: Global Toronto | SOPA backlash: Anonymous takes down Universal Music, Dept. of Justice sites
TORONTO - Hackers associated with the group Anonymous shut down websites for the U.S. Department of Justice and Universal Music Group, including the record company's Canadian home page, Thursday afternoon. Less than an hour later, the Recording Industry Association of America also went offline.
This came after U.S. federal agents raided the file sharing site Megaupload and arrested four people in New Zealand who were allegedly linked to the site. The four were reportedly charged with conspiracy related to copyright infringement.
Read it on Global News: Global Toronto | SOPA backlash: Anonymous takes down Universal Music, Dept. of Justice sites
http://www.globaltoronto.com/sopa+backlash+anonymous+takes+down+universal+mus...
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Anonymous take down Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, Universal Music
Chris Burns, Jan 19th 2012
Earlier today the sites Megaupload and Megavideo were shut down by ICE, a federal group responsible for working with and shutting down groups that pirate media illegally -- in retaliation the hacker collective known as Anonymous have shut down the RIAA, the MPAA, Universal Music, and the United States Government site Justice.org, belonging to the Department of Justice. These hits have been confirmed by several anonymously run "official" Anonymous sources such as twitter accounts @Anonops, @AnonymousIRC, and @YourAnonNews, and were likely planned in advance. As a bit of an extra jab after the biggest sites in this situation were downed, Anonymous noted that they should simply say, "for #SOPA supporters their#SOPAblackout is today."
http://www.slashgear.com/anonymous-take-down-department-of-justice-riaa-mpaa-...
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