Favre4Ever+ 4,476 Posted January 19, 2012 Just minutes after the U.S. Department of Justice repossessed the domains of Megaupload, Megavideo, Megaporn and a collection of other popular filesharing sites, the hacker collective Anonymous got to work on a few takedowns of its own. On Thursday afternoon, Anonymous claimed credit for cyberattacks that knocked offline the websites of the U.S. Department of Justice, Recording Industry of America, Motion Picture Association of America and Universal Music. The so-called denial of service attacks that overwhelmed those sites with junk traffic came less than an hour after the Justice Department announced the takedown of the Mega sites, along with the arrest of former hacker and Mega founder Kim Dotcom and six others, who are being indicted on charges of copyright infringement and money laundering. “One thing is certain: EXPECT US!,” wrote the Anonymous-linked Anonops Twitter feed Thursday just after the Mega raid, adding a hashtag for Megaupload. Update: The U.S. Copyright office website is now down as well. Expect this to go on for a while. “Get some popcorn… it’s going to be a long lulzy night,” writes Anonnews. Anonnews also now calls the operation the largest ever that Anonymous has undertaken in terms of participants, with 5,635 computers running the distributed attack software that the hacker group uses. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/19/anonymous-hackers-claims-attack-on-doj-universal-music-and-riaa-after-megaupload-takedown/ #Winning Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RazorStar 4,025 Posted January 20, 2012 Alright, good to see the worst of us can do the best things. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteVo+ 3,702 Posted January 20, 2012 Fucking awesome. Love seeing stuff like this. As long as Internet regulation talk is alive in Washington, Anonymous will be doing work and fucking shit up. Eat it, politicians. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vin+ 3,121 Posted January 20, 2012 So, is piracy good or bad? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KiLaSix9+ 398 Posted January 20, 2012 Why and how the fuck did they take down Mega if this legislation hasn't passed yet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sarge+ 3,436 Posted January 20, 2012 Annonymous is our Dark Knight. lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BucD+ 648 Posted January 20, 2012 Holy crap... ...craziness... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Barracuda 629 Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Why and how the fuck did they take down Mega if this legislation hasn't passed yet? Because copyright infringement is still illegal without SOPA. The new bill just takes enforcement a few steps further. Anyways, shit got real. Edited January 20, 2012 by Barracuda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
