Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music 649
First time accepted submitter EW87 writes "Shortly after a federal raid today brought down the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers aligned with the online collective Anonymous have shut down sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group and the RIAA. 'It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org,' Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon."
*slow clap* (Score:2, Informative)
Well done idiotic reactionaries, you've played right into the puppetmasters trap.
Yesterday people took notice of a real issue that had both politicians and Big Media scrambling for damage control.
Big Media responds with a very calculated move to bring down a notorious hive of actual crime, it's like setting the bait for the trap.
Guess what will be talked about in the media for days now?
Guess how your CongressButts will vote when they sense danger?
GREAT JORB
Re:wow (Score:5, Informative)
Re:wow (Score:2, Informative)
MegaUpload has a few legitimate uses, but from what I can see the piracy on the site far outweighs any legitimate uploads. Any legitimate uses seem like a way of pointing and saying, "See! Not everything on our site is pirated."
If they respond in a reasonable time frame to take down requests, and ban users, and maybe even the IPs of the users who continually upload infringing material, then it probably shouldn't matter, they're complying with a reasonable set of laws.
If they're slow about taking down infringing content, and don't bother banning users who continually upload said content, then it's probably legitimate that the site got taken down. Further, it seems like rather than a DNS block and cutting off their money, the FBI worked with the judicial system of the country MegaUpload resides in.
I'm not privy to the details of the case - like how quickly they responded to take down notices - but it at least seems like this is going through legitimate channels to track down 'rogue' sites.
Re:Not Anonymous.. (Score:5, Informative)
Link warning: opening this will max your internet connection to load certain websites from the title, so don't open it unless that is your intention.
Re:wow (Score:4, Informative)
and still Anonymous achieves nothing for their effort.
Re:That'll showem (Score:5, Informative)
".. They were compliant with the DMCA, from what I understand.."
Apparently not, try ars technica for what these scum were really up to
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars [arstechnica.com]
Re:That'll showem (Score:2, Informative)
"What law was MegaUpload breaking?"
The indictment is quite specific, and not a difficult read. I wonder how many of the people who are already in full protest mode have read it?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204616504577171180266957116.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories [wsj.com]
Re:wow (Score:4, Informative)
no-one chose to pay the MPAA for their services.
Sony did.
Re:Wow. They did dare! (Score:5, Informative)
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