The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted seven people and two companies which ran the file uploading site Megaupload.com. The site, which billed itself as “the leading online storage and file delivery service,” is now offline.
In the indictment, Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act), two Internet piracy bills currently under debate in the U.S. Congress.
Some 15 minutes after the indictment, the online hacker group Anonymous tweeted from a Sweden-based account that it had retaliated against the DOJ:
#OpPayBack Target: DOWN justice.gov – 15 minutes after feds announce arrest of Megaupload 7, #Anonymous strikes #svpol
— Anonymous Sweden (@AnonOpsSweden) January 19, 2012
Soon afterwards, justice.gov was inaccessible — and it remains down at time of writing:
The websites of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and Universal Music Group were also experiencing either intense slowdowns or complete failure. Other Anonymous-related Twitter handles took credit:
mpaa.org got attacked by a close-hauled sailing pirate fleet. #Megaupload #StarveTheBeast
— AnonymousIRC (@AnonymousIRC) January 19, 2012
universalmusic.com & justice.gov &RIAA.ORG TANGO DOWN #Megaupload Fight for Internet Freedom!
— AnonOps (@anonops) January 19, 2012
The Anonymous group of the online community 4chan took down the MPAA’s website before in a 2010 Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
UPDATE: Copyright.gov, the U.S. Copyright Office’s website, is also under siege. It’s loading, but very slowly and without images.
Has Anonymous gone too far? Can these kinds of attacks ever be justified, or do they hurt a legitimate cause? Let us know in the comments below.
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Alex Fitzpatrick 20 Jan, 2012
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Source: http://mashable.com/2012/01/19/doj-megaupload-anonymous/
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