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Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site

Posted by Soulskill on from the countering-a-distributed-denial-of-liberty-attack dept.

newtley writes "Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music's main IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) website is down. Not coincidentally, there's an Operation Payback post addressing the Pirate Bay crew's lost sentencing appeal: 'Dear IFPI, MAFIAA and other parasites, The recent verdict in the Swedish Appeal Court (ThePirateBay spectrial) provoked this statement from Operation: Payback. We emphasize our statement with a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack aimed at the IFPI's website.'"

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  1. Re:Well, somebody's showing... by jdpars · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's the peaceful resolution they should be aiming for? What branch of the government can they appeal to to restrict the power of government to intervene without precedent? The courts are obviously not going to help them, nor the legislators, nor the president or any various governors.

  2. Re:yeah by Scaba · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jay Walkers was framed!!