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• Online activists angered over antipiracy legislation before Congress and todays indictment of operators of popular file hosting site Megaupload appeared to have shut down the sites of the U.S.
(CNET News)
• Online activists angered over the indictment of popular file hosting site Megaupload on piracy charges appear to have shut down the sites of U.S. Department of Justice, Universal Music and the Motion Picture Association of America.
(CNET News)
• Just minutes after the U.S. Department of Justice repossessed the domains of Megaupload, Megavideo, Megaporn and a collection of other popular filesharing sites, the hacker collective Anonymous got to work on a few takedowns of its own.
(Forbes)
• McDermott Will Emery has added a former Department of Justice official to its Washington office, the firm announced Wednesday. Warren Rosborough has joined McDermott as a partner in the firms antitrust and compliance practice group.
(The BLT: Blog of Legal Times)
• A secure, interoperable radio network that the Department of Justice has been working on for more than a decade and that has cost the agency $356 million may be headed for failure, according to a new report by the agencys inspector general.
(TechWeb)
• The U.S. Justice Departments main web page was offline Thursday for hours shortly after prosecutors announced the arrest of seven people on charges of running one of the worlds largest online piracy rings.
(The BLT: Blog of Legal Times)