"Megaupload was taken down w/out SOPA being law. Now imagine what will happen if it passes. The Internet as we know it will end. FIGHT BACK," wrote @YourAnonNews on Twitter in a reference to the ongoing battle in Congress over the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Re: Hacker group Anonymous retaliates for Megaupload shutdow
Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 07:43
by Pedro-NF
List of sites shut down or crippled by Anonymous in the last few hours:
Department of Justice (Justice.gov)
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA.org)
Universal Music (UniversalMusic.com)
Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (Anti-piracy.be/nl/)
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA.org)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI.gov)
HADOPI law site (HADOPI.fr)
U.S. Copyright Office (Copyright.gov)
Universal Music France (UniversalMusic.fr)
Senator Christopher Dodd (ChrisDodd.com)
Vivendi France (Vivendi.fr)
The White House (Whitehouse.gov)
BMI (BMI.com)
Warner Music Group (WMG.com)
Re: Hacker group Anonymous retaliates for Megaupload shutdow
Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 09:22
by Rhedex
OMG
Re: Hacker group Anonymous retaliates for Megaupload shutdow
Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 14:33
by Crystal
they slapped the FBI twice. took it down, fbi brought it back up, they took it down again. The Gov is getting spanked.
Re: Hacker group Anonymous retaliates for Megaupload shutdow
Posted: 20 Jan 2012, 17:35
by Pedro-NF
Kinky!
Re: Hacker group Anonymous retaliates for Megaupload shutdow
Posted: 25 Jan 2012, 04:48
by Pedro-NF
"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," said Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz, the German-born founder of Megaupload.
The kicker was Megabox would cater to unsigned artists and allow anyone to sell their creations while allowing the artist to retain 90% of the earnings. Or, artists could even giveaway their songs and would be paid through a service called Megakey. "Yes that’s right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works," Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak in December. Megabox was planning on bypassing the labels, RIAA, and the entire music establishment.
Kim Dotcom says many U.S. government employees are affected by the shut down.
One of the big issues since MegaUpload was shut down has been the fact that users who paid to store legitimate personal files on MegaUpload's servers have not been able to access their documents. MegaUpload has been working with the Department of Justice to grant users access to their files, but the process has been a slow one. We first heard that MegaUpload was working to give users access to their data at the end of January. However, according to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom, it's not just ordinary Joes and Janes that have been denied access to their personal files.
TorrentFreak cites Kim Dotcom as saying that while investigating a way to provide users will access to their files, they discovered that there is many high-ranking US Government officials with MegaUpload accounts.
"Guess what – we found a large number of Mega accounts from US Government officials including the Department of Justice and the US Senate," Dotcom said. "I hope we will soon have permission to give them and the rest of our users access to their files."
According to TorrentFreak, additional information on an "eventual resurrection" of MegaUpload is expected this week, so people that are currently without access to backed up files, photos, and other documents should be a little clearer on where they stand once that comes to pass.
