Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music

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."

Comments

Re:Can't help but think

[sneakyimp]

Mod parent up. This is really stupid. Any hacker who thinks he can keep his tracks covered forever should think again. Nothing like a little public outrage to fuel some kind of suspending-habeas-corpus-body-snatching legislation like the Patriot Act and these little twats will end up being waterboarded somewhere in Egypt. Lil' hacker buds would do well to remember that meatspace is not cyberspace.

Re:War

[Mad Leper]

Indeed, I keep telling people that ID theft is really ID sharing and it should be decriminalized, after all you can't steal information, right??

You are utterly wrong

[Bayoudegradeable]

Stop with the silly Iran thing, really. If I break Iranian law by actions in the US without ever having my actions affect any aspect of Iranian society/economy, etc then my actions, not only unknown in Iran, will have no impact on Iran. HOWEVER, when non-US folks break laws that have direct impact on US companies and US citizens INSIDE the US (and they use US computer services)then of course they are fair game to be prosecuted. Sorry you don't like the long arm of the law, but if I start messing with French companies from the US then France certainly has the right to seek me out. Not that France has the backbone for that sort of thing, but still...

Re:War

[ScentCone]

Yes! We need a revolt so that we can make writers, musicians, film makers, programmers, photographers, painters and the like - finally - into the slaves we've always wanted them to be. Stupid artists, they must understand that whiney adolescents who want free entertainment have the moral high ground, and that the artists themselves should have no influence over or claim to their own efforts. Bow down, artists - your 12-year-old masters demand that you create stuff for them!