Within minutes of the site being shut down, and DOJ releasing its
statement, Anonymous sprang into action and started taking down a ton of
sites -- including websites for the DOJ, the US Copyright Office,
Universal Music, the RIAA, the MPAA and a bunch of other sites.
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)
Anonymous launches largest attack ever, crippling government and music
industry sites. Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an
attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking
the sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and
Motion Picture Association of America.
Many members of Congress have just changed their stance on the
controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, the raid on Megaupload
Thursday proved that the feds don’t need SOPA or its sister legislation,
PIPA, in order to pose a blow to the Web.