Anonymous

Hackers retaliate over Megaupload by taking down DoJ, FBI and MPAA

A statement attricuted to Anonymous claimed responsibility. The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had taken action to force Megaupload and related domain names offline, and had charged the firm's co-founders and others with violating piracy laws. Four of the employees have been arrested in Auckland, NZ at the request of US authorities. One of their lawyers initially objected to media requests for photographs, but the accused said that they did not mind "because we have nothing to hide". WIN.

Hours later a statement linked to the @AnonymousWiki twitter account announced: "We Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz. The FBI didn't think they would get away with this did they? They should have expected us." It said that 10 sites had been taken offline in response to the Megaupload shutdown including the FBI, Universal Music, RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and Hadopi - the French government agency responsible for "protecting creative

works on the internet".

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme that originated in 2003 on theimageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.

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