Thursday, January 19, 2012

Mpaa

  • As youve undoubtedly noticed, today was the anti-SOPA blackout for hundreds of major sites in the U.S., most notably Wikipedia, which remains dark in silent protest. AfterDawn is also using Googles blackout landing page.
  • (Afterdawn.com)
  • 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)
  • Following the shutdown of Megaupload, the collective retaliated by shutting down websites for the RIAA, MPAA and the Department of Justice, just to name a few. Minutes after U.S. authorities shut down file-sharing website Megaupload, hactivist group Anonymous retaliated.
  • (Hollywood Reporter)
  • Anonymous was quick to target the Justice Department, Universal Music, the RIAA, and MPAA in the wake of this afternoons Megaupload announcement, with the Web sites for all four organizations succumbing to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
  • (PC Magazine)
  • President and CEO of the Motion Pictures Association of America Chris Dodd has issued a strongly-worded statement regarding tomorrow's planned outages and protests relating to the SOPA and PIPA legislation.
  • (Boston Globe)
  • WASHINGTON —The following is a statement by Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
  • (Movie City News)
  • The MPAA shows its respect for its customers by pre-accusing them of being criminals. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) writes better parody than the Onion.
  • (DAILY KOS)

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