After Megaupload Shutdown, Anonymous Hits DOJ, Universal Sites

After Megaupload Shutdown, Anonymous Hits DOJ, Universal Sites

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Anonymous was quick to target the Justice Department, Universal Music, the RIAA, and MPAA in the wake of this afternoon's Megaupload announcement, with the Web sites for all four organizations succumbing to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Justice.gov and universalmusic.com went offline around 430pm Eastern and have been largely unresponsive for the past 1.5 hours. RIAA.com and MPAA.org are also unresponsive.

"Recording Industry Association of America—Department of Justice—Universal Music—all TT, all TANGO DOWN," Anonymous tweeted this evening with the #OpMegaUpload hashtag.

Earlier today, the DOJ announced the shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload. Seven individuals and two corporations were indicted for copyright infringement and could face up to 50 years in prison. Megaupload earned approximately $750 million for its exploits and incurred about $1 billion in damages, the agency alleged.

In its statement, the DOJ said the takedown was "among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States." MORE>>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399116,00.asp

(TLS)- Looks like the Feds wrapped up their 2 year investigation at a very politically expedient time... They are still getting their asses kicked in public opinion, If they keep this shit up I'm sure that copyright in general is going to get an overhaul for the better. Copyright laws need to be changed in a drastic way to prevent them harming the Internet and the common man in his daily life. These laws only benefit MILLIONAIRES!!  Screw em, people will still make music, movies and books, I don't think that's even in question. Their profits and terrorism are.

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Comment by TheLasersShadow on January 22, 2012 at 3:36am

The world’s most wanted pirate was also the No. 1 multiplayer player for Modern Warfare 3 http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/21/kim-dotcom-modern-warfare-3/

Comment by Ragnarok on January 19, 2012 at 8:05pm

In the indictment, Megaupload and a company associated with it are accused of making $175 million while simultaneously causing approximately half a billion dollars in copyright infringement. Among the indicted are the site’s founder, Kim Dotcom (a.k.a. Kim Schmitz), who holds residency in New Zealand and Hong Kong. Employees Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, Julius Bencko, Finn Batato, Sven Echternach, Mathias Ortmann, and Andrus Nomm were also indicted.

New Zealand authorities arrested Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk. Officials said they have not yet captured Bencko, Echternach and Nomm.

According to the indictment, the accused are part of “the Mega Conspiracy, a worldwide criminal organization whose members engaged in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale.” They are being charged with participating in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement.

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