• Anonymous Retaliates Against MegaUpload Crackdown

    Anonymous Retaliates Against MegaUpload Crackdown

    Nachiket 'therapist' Mhatre, Jan 20, 2012 2215 hrs IST

    Takes down RIAA, MPAA, and US government websites.

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Even as the prospect of the proposed SOPA \ PIPA bills being passed diminishes in the face of widespread protests, that still hasn't stopped US federal prosecutors from cracking down on the evil scourge of noble media houses - the internet. SOPA or no SOPA, the US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have shut down MegaUpload.com - a popular file-sharing website. Seven employees of the company, including founder Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz), have been arrested for knowingly abetting piracy.

As expected, Anonymous has launched a co-ordinated attack on all parties involved in or supporting the clampdown. This includes government arms such as the US Justice Department and Copyright Office, as well as SOPA lobbyists such as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The attacks are being publicised through the Twitter hashtag #OpMegaUpload through the AnonOps account.

Draconian government policies and hacktivist resistance aside, the demise of MegaUpload - and the countless terabytes of user data along with it - underscores the dangerous nature of cloud storage. Hopefully, you have offline backups of the data you'd placed on MegaUpload.


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Rahul.
,Mumbai, on Jan 22, 2012 12:35 PM
I lost almost 2 gb of data which I had uploaded on megaupload and there is no way of recovering it as I hadnt taken a f**king backup of it..Even If they had warned us,I would have taken backup in a day.. Never thought such a great and famous website will close down..Just hope India doesnt go ahead with the same..
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Austin Hoffman
,Los Angeles, on Jan 22, 2012 03:51 AM
hell yea! GO ANONYMOUS!!! i really hope they can pull it off..since it's all BS...SOPA/PIPA were junk + MU arrest was unfair + I don't think swizz he has any legal connections to MU...imo it was all fabbed up to get other celebrity endorsements. p.s. looks like someone is pissed - FBI vs ANONYMOUS video: http://www.peeje.com/anonymous-hackers-we-legion-211/
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