FBI Closes Megaupload and arrests several of their employees

copyright.gov is the current “victim” while not down yet it barely loads and pingback is slow, it´s being ddos´d

4chan and anonymous´s twitter and the facebook group op payback

edit: not 4chan anymore, they´ve just made the channels private

YouTube manages just fine.

seems now they are also in the works with chrisdodd.com it also seems several hackers that are not part of the anom group are joining in to help out, apparently it´s been 10 websites in 20 minutes but can´t seem to find the whole list

Edit: Also, https://hadopi.fr/ is now down as well

Edit2: They are also ddos´ing fbi.gov

Edit3: whitehouse.gov also in process apparently how on earth can they be doing so many at the same time? I´m starting to doubt the credibility, guess we´ll just have to wait to see if they actually go down

https://www.zgon.cn/loic.html is being used by hundreds if not thousands of users to flood websites and eventually bringning them down, ddos for the masses i guess

They have mechanisms in place to automatically check the content of the files to see if they are similar to known copyrighted material. They have one specific file type (video). Megaupload didn’t. They hosted any type of file imaginable so it would be nigh-on impossible to automatically check the contents of the files (considering one could simply change the filenames or hide the contents inside password protected compressed files such as ZIP or RAR or otherwise encrypted). There isn’t a similarity here.

And they respond to direct requests from copyright holders. Megaupload did the same.

It is estimated over 100k people are joining in with LOIC based attacks on a number of websites, you can follow the whole thin the twitter hashtags:
#OpPayback
#TANGODOWN

Edit: Confirmed, usdoj.gov down

Edit2: Copyright.gov is now down

I listen to music at work all damn day on Youtube. Copyrighted music, uploaded as a video featuring a static image of the album cover. Not covered under fair use. And rarely - if ever - do those videos get taken down.

Twitter pulls the plug on #OpPayBack so that it would no longer trend. Still can be followed manually.

Edit: bmi.com is next on the list on what is now considered officially the biggest hack attack in history

Anyone want to help me use LOIC to attack the ESA?

This is amazing.

Funny, I literally JUST downloaded a skyrim mod from megaupload this morning, because the skyrimnexus link was going too slow.

Make sure to use a condo… i mean proxy : )

It’s like listening to the original live broadcast of War of the Worlds, except this makes me lol and not shit my pants. :retard:

Is it wrong to feel honoured by that statement? :stuck_out_tongue:

whitehouse.gov and bmi.gov are now reported down

oh, big one… The Warner Music Group website (wmg.com) is now down.

Anonymous ask of all followers to take precautions.

Twitter´s most posted advice on the topic: Get some popcorn, it´s going to be a long night!

Edit: FBI was down for 10 minutes but is now back up, all efforts are now centered on fbi.gov

It looks like the sites are going back up faster than it took to take them down.

This effort seems fruitless… :frowning:

In deed since they are mostly ddos attacks, once they stop I guess they can just reboot the servers, but I figure it´s more about a statement rather than permanent damage.

EDIT: Furthermore, twitter has re-added those hashtags to trends, scared perhaps?

Oh hey, Bolteh is being a fucking idiot like usual. I guess things don’t change. Bolteh, do you seriously think that a site containing the VAST quantities (4% of the internet according to their ads) of completely varying files could possibly monitor those files for copyrighted content without going bankrupt? That’d probably cost more than the entire company is worth. Requiring sites containing user uploaded content to strictly screen their content would mean the death of those websites. It’s an impossible demand.

Anyway, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUu how am I gonna watch streaming anime now?

I’m gonna run this LOIC thing for tonight, and close it when I wake up.
hopefully esa will be down by then.

Is UltraSurf a good proxy btw?

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