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Anonymous Retaliates For Megaupload Shutdown – DoJ, UMG, RIAA and MPAA go Down

It only took a few minutes for “Anoymous” to spring into action and retaliate for the shutdown of MegaUpload.

Under the #OpPayBack flag several sites are taken offline

It started with justice.gov, but soon after the sites of Universal Music Group, the RIAA and MPAA were in trouble as well.

Both TangoDown and MegaUpload are trending on twitter at the time of writing.

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  • Mr. Putin

    Dear Anonymous,

    Thank you.

    Many Thanks,
    Mr. Putin

    • Mr. Putin

      Copyright.gov is down as well, Russia Today reported they are taking down the whitehouse.gov, but this is unconfirmed (since it’s not down).

      “but son after the sites”
      You Spelt ‘soon’ wrong, just saying. :P

      • Predator

        FREE HANA BESHARA!

        • TaterSalad

          YEAH! FREE HANA BARBARA!

      • ZiggySig

        Russia Today is a bad unreliable news source. Just so you were informed.

        • TinFoilHatter

          like Fox news?

        • ZiggySig

          No, are you crazy? Fox News, CNN, Russia Today… All of them are quite rotten… Sadly, I see, that Russia Today has changed their youtube channel description, which went somewhere along these lines: “Young journalist team tries to analyze and provide alternative views regarding most important topics. Despite being funded by Russian government, we keep our reporting neutral.” Shouldn’t that ring a bell for you? Being fed Russia propaganda isn’t in any way better, than being fed simplified American crap.

          I have followed some world events, by watching numerous youtube videos, following tweets, and watching on ground reporting from locals, and bigger media channels. Russia Today was continuously spreading loads of horseshit, talking with all sorts of “experts”, while it didn’t even have any reporters on the ground, like others did. Do you really think Putin’s channel can have any credibility, keeping in mind recent elections, numerous journalist deaths, and political opposition eradication? Really?

          If you need to go for major broadcaster, chose BBC at least. They have pretty decent record. Or go for al-Jazeera, if you desire something exotic, but stay vigilant about what you hear.

    • Bubba

      Listen Americans stop being stupid, internet is not your property. stop acting like a world police and dictating which site can live which die. FROM the Internetz

      • dutchbeer

        lol.. sry i dont like the fact that megas been shut down, but at the same time most of what ppl stream IS stolen or theirs some kind of copyright shit. Its more so the americans taking back what is well… theirs. forgive me if i insult anyone i think a lot of ppl are just spoiled, I remember when i had to buy/rent a movies (only 22 btw), Now everyones getting pissed because something that should of never have been free in the first place is gone. Yes hollywood is still making enough money, but lets say im a big time director or actor. I know i would be pissed by principal alone (fuck money) knowing that ppl all over the world are well stealing from me,

        • Adam C Blodgett

          DutchBeer, I agree with you completely…but the way that Big Media is approaching the problem is what I disagree with, not their complaint. It doesn’t seem like they’ve EVER tried to work with consumers to find an effective profitable way of curbing piracy. Instead they secretly infected our machines with spyware (Sony) without our consent and pay millions of dollars to unfairly manipulate American public policy, extending copyright by 20 years when Mickey Mouse was about to enter the public domain, Blizzard’s heavy handed persecution of their biggest fanst reverse engineering their games, RIAA’s absurd lawsuits against its fans, the travesty that is the DMCA, and now PIPA/SOPA was their most brazen power grab yet, not to mention their influence of the FCC. Their facist approach to censoring the entire internet in order to keep their profits is megalomaniacal and an inappropriate response to a very real problem.

          Yep, downloading music, movies and games is illegal, but with Big Media’s ability to seemingly write their own laws making plenty of legal file sharing dangerous and illegal, their desire to control what we can and can’t do with media that we buy and ought to have rights to gives digital piracy a kind of political weight, a power to say ‘Screw you!’ to the guys that, not once, it seems, have tried to meet the consumers halfway. The heavy handed, entitled way that Big Media has treated its consumers has charged the situation politically. What started with the minor nuisance of Napster a decade or so ago has snowballed into something far more dangerous for Big Media, and the thing that they don’t see is that they had a huge hand in creating the mess. Their continual demonization of their own fans created a huge rift between them and the people that they claim to be serving, and their inability to adapt to new technology has spelled the end for them, which is clear by their incredibly baffled reaction to the response to PIPA/SOPA.

          It’s telling that the most successful online big media venture to date, iTunes, had to be envisioned and created by someone outside of Big Media, St. Jobs. The concept was just too far outside of the world that it seems Hollywood inhabits, which is apparently, approximately 1985. So, yeah, stealing from rich guys sucks, but attempting to bribe the US government to censor the internet and stifle online innovation for the foreseeable future sucks WAY more.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Flibberdy-Gibbet/100002270550493 Flibberdy Gibbet

        lulz. I’m always amused by people who want to blame the American public for the actions of the politicians. Citizens cast votes for the least of all evils, but they’re still power-hungry butt-kissing manipulative liars when they get into office and it only gets worse the longer they stay, as they make and strengthen connections. So if you want to yell at someone, let’s call them ‘Western Hemisphere politicians’, not ‘Americans’. K? thx. -.-

        • Anonymous

          America is still a democracy isn’t it? Voting them in office makes citizens like you responsible.

      • TechMan

        Bubba… you, are an idiot… anybody that makes such a broad spectrum comment on an entire culture, country, race or sex, is “special” to say the least, we might as well start blaming germans and russians for racism, blacks for crime and women for getting jobs… also do yourself a favor and research the creation of the internet and how the US government came to control it within itself and why the majority of the internet does in fact rest within the control of the USA… obviously if things go horribly the government could in fact filter its own internet as well as its domain types, .com .net .org .us .gov, so rather then whine about it… how bout you do something about it?

      • Fionahx33

        It’s not us! It’s our fucking government!!! We like free stuff too you know!!! >:(

  • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

    twitter works lol.

  • TelezarZ

    Anon should not only take down websites, they should hack their database like they did to Stratfor. They must do deeper hacking now…
    RIP Megaupload.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OK7Y7PCSTJ27RCKZ2MGRSAYCTE NEIL

    This is great news….WHOOHOO!!!!

  • Lol

    Nice, but not sure what it really accomplishes. I mean maybe if they hacked in and planted data / deleted data or something, but DDoS’s don’t really do much. Sort of like spitting at a cop.

    • DocGerbil100

      Tell that to Andrew Crossley. :D

    • Anonymous_ballsack

      ^

  • Duke

    Didn’t people end up in prison the last time they did this sort of thing?

    • Mr. Putin

      So? It’s making a point across. If we worried about things like that… nobody would protest ^_^

    • incognito

      If things continue as they are, more people will end up in prison. As it is, there are more people going to jail for “criminal copyright infringement” than for real crimes like murdering their children.

  • guest

    Great to see the commynity standing together to proove those @±¢”/$ that they have no rights to rules the whole world

    • TinFoilHatter

      Pirate party uk press relese
      US authorities claim that the timing of this move [medaupload takedown] was in no way designed to coincide with the current popular backlash against excessive ‘anti-piracy’ legislation being pushed in the USA, such as SOPA and PIPA. I see it as a shot across the bows of a growing popular movement.

      No coincidience? – Bulshit!

      http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/press/releases/2012/jan/19/megaupload-takedown/

      • Predator

        It was a fucking big mistake to hit megaupload the next day of an historic internet blackout protest, a very very big mistake indeed.

        It seem to me that we are heading toward 1776 all over again.

        See you in Trenton Dodd!

        • Predator

          Oh, and this:

          FREE HANA BESHARA!

        • PlatinumC

          And maybe it’s not a coincidence they took MU down the day after an historic moment? Though not sure what side would benefit more (on one side, it kind of shows to the public exactly what kind of idiots are leading the copywrong)

  • http://www.facebook.com/prunn Bruno Lévesque

    problem being they(the basta…) shut down sites we see… anynomous shuts down site no one is using…

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  • Gridlock

    Here´s to you Anynomous there´s a time for everything and this is defiantly the time for such an action.
    Though next time if you can do it don´t take down their sites instead throw out their dirty laundry for everyone to see.

  • Maffoo

    News just in ! the 3 biggest threats to Hollywood profitability in 2012 have been identified ! They are Ghost Rider 2, Men in Black 3, and the remake of Titanic in 3D

    • Guest

      Wow i Laughed at this cause its soooo damn true they are doing it to themselves.

  • Pid Dd

    hack the planet… its about time

  • Johnnycomegetsome

    Guys Guys Don’t take out the front end-
    GET IN THE BACK END AND START POSTING SOME REAL SHIT LIKE HOME PHONE NUMBERS OF ERIC HOLDER AND SHIT

    Also, are they using the “slow attack (half-open connects)) or a LOIC style attack? Or a botnet? Cuz if someone has developed a downloadable version of the “slow-DNS” attack that would be excellent
    You know what Im talking about right the recently released whitepaper???

    • Johnny is a dick

      Shut up you cockhead.

      • Johnnycomegetsome

        Why shut up fuckwit? Are you an MPAA troll-shit?

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  • Anonymous

    Take down CNBC.com if you want peoples attention

    • Justsaying

      No one looks at CNBC.com lol

  • Endgame79

    GO ANONYMOUS..KICK THERE FUKING ASSES

  • Jimbes

    There is a chance that they doing this themselfs, just to have some reason how hackers/pirates are bad, to convince older (or stupid) people. Megaupload was just begining of chain reaction of events.

    • Blacklightartist

      i hope not, that does worry me myself.

  • Fireballs22
    • Mmm

      has this link been killed?

  • DiscardedBox

    Keep up the good work!

    How can I help?

    • Oh_bama_sux

      Definitely need to cut off the federal government monetary supply.

  • Oh_bama_sux

    Start listing home addresses and phone numbers of all the terrorists in Washington DC. They are the ones that are the real threat to liberty.

    • Blacklightartist

      you mean the politicians right?

  • Guest

    I have only one thing to say about all these corporate parasites:

    Let’s kill them all before more damage is done to our society.

    This is the only way to take care of this entertainment industry problem.

    • Colpizz

      I am sorry but I believe you to go fuck yourself! No one is interested in your nonsense, so go back to your free “for now” porn sites and get to work. The rest of us have real shit to discuss. Thanks

    • just go away

      every day you pipe up with a comment about killing someone.you,re a coporate troll trying to give filesharers a bad name,maybe anon. should go after you

  • A citizen against oppression

    I am against online piracy, but these bills have gone too far.
    If they pass, we will be unpleased. And the government can expect more attacks from Anon. And believe me, real pirates will find their way to get through the defence.

    Anyway, keep up the idea. Don’t let V for Vendetta’s world come true! ¡Viva la revolución!

    P.s.
    Damn, I need a Fawkes mask!

    • Blacklightartist

      meh, if they flag me so be it. i agree. they are starting a war, but one they cannot win. i think what started online, may very well spread into physical world if they choose to continue. they best watch who they are stepping on, a billion people don’t fit under their feet. like V for vendetta we could easily march on the capital. sure that would make those politicians piss there pants. perhaps it’ll be something similar to what happened in russia when the people pulled the Czar Nicholas II off the throne. Thats how i imagine it happening at least.

  • TelezarZ
  • Fuck SOPA

    fucking SOPA………. We gonna go back the stone age if SOPA approved

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  • fuck down corporate’s throat

    The US of A needs to be rebuilt! Citizens of Amerca get the fatcats off the continent. You can do it!

  • Guest

    This is pointless. It’s not like anyone goes to these websites anyway.

    • PlatinumC

      Yeah… not anymore they aint

  • Anonymous

    Here is what our Anonymous friends achieved last evening…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lXau4TDt7M&feature=relmfu

    An unusual turn of events seeing that Anonymous has been trying to move away from LOIC action to focus more on lawful political acts. Best they keep in mind that the PIPA vote is only days away.

  • It’s a fit-up

    I hope they close these sites down for months.

  • Fuck You Usa

    The world is turning more and more into a big China. If blood is what they want, blood they will find. Dear world politicians: don’t expect to keep your heads above your necks if all you can do is fuck up your ppl.

  • petercontact

    i can’t believe no one mention it
    megavideo is down to (00)
    do this people even realize what they ‘ve done to the world and how importand megavideo is
    i have the next 4 days off and if i was leaving in america i would spend them all demonstrating for this

  • Lain59

    Scary, nasty world! What is wrong with the USA? Why do they have to tell everyone how high to jump? I am totally on the side of freedom. I say “great work, Anonymous!”

    • Squirrelmaster

      What you forgot is to ask what you should also do on the way down…lol

  • Nevada

    Shame on Obama, shame on the NZ govt for arresting their own just for sucking up to the US. Don’t they realize that filesharing sites have been responsible for so much of amazing content reaching people in remote corners of the world it would have never reached otherwise. This spreads culture, peace & understanding. For eg an arab can download a US documentary & hence gain a new insight into the US & realize that people there too are good. These idiots who are against filesharing sites are in fact blocking the who damn peace process by LIMITING access to millions across the world. Obaba has done NOTHING so far. HE has not pulled out the troops nor shut gbay. He now will go down in infamy if he continues this.

    • Blacklightartist

      has he not already?

    • Concerned American

      Yes, but you can’t forget that thanks to the PATRIOT Act, if aide a terrorist (not saying all Arabs are, but, just saying) and this means going up to someone who has been labeled as one and telling them NOT to do that, YOU ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
      I can’t help but wonder if American politicians are crappier at writing laws than they were in the past or if since, for now anyway, the information is freely available, people notice more often how much the politicians suck at writing laws. Personally, I DO think that there is a problem with breaking copyright laws, but this is not the way to enforce it.
      By the way, I wouldn’t doubt that the takedown of MU was intentionally timed with the vote on SOPA. I’m guessing that they didn’t count on it being voted down. I bet they wanted to take them down AFTER it passed. If you think about it, with the time it takes to plan and coordinate a takedown like that, it must have been in the works for a while. They probably had everything set up and even though SOPA was voted down, it would cost too much to abort the mission there.
      As far as Obama doing nothing, I think the problem is actually the polarization of the American political landscape. When he got elected and for quite some time after that, he tried to make an effort to run things in a bipartisan fashion. However, time and again, the Republicans seemed to always try to throw a wrench into it and screw everything up by filibustering. The problem is that since Obama was trying to do things that everyone could agree with, he alienated his colleagues in the Democratic party, and with out having 60% EVERY TIME, he couldn’t prevent a filibuster, which would essentially block anything truly useful. I would agree that he hasn’t accomplished much, but I don’t feel it was his fault. The problem is that no one on the right side of the aisle seems to be able to agree with ANYTHING that he does. He should say something like “breathing is a good thing and I recommend that you do it, and do it often” this way, all the stupid nay-sayers hold their breaths in protest and asphyxiate.

  • Guest

    I am soooo happy that people like Anonymous exist. When I read news like these it really makes my day. THANKS Anonymous!

  • Noneofyourbusiness

    When I heard what Anonymous did, I thought it was cool, but also that it was like the fat kid throwing a tantrum in the store. What good did it do? You got some attention, now what? If you really want to do some good, hack into the RIAA, MPAA or some senators private computer and get some dirt on them. Post it to the world and let us see how dirty these people are.

    And to all you people pissed at the U.S. Just remember that it’s not the average citizens fault. We are just as disgusted as any one from any other country. The average American is asking the same questions everyone else is, how could the U.S force another country to arrest people and shut down a company. Why? Because the other country’s are just as corrupt as the U.S. They are allowing a foreign country to dictate what they do. So before you get mad at the U.S, get mad at your own country if they allowed it to happen there.

    • Jaydee40

      Well if the average American doesn’t get control of their government don’t complain when the rest of the world finds a way to bring the US to it’s knees.
      You dropped the ball and now we all pay the price for it, you get no pity from me.

      • Jaydee40lovesweiner

        Well maybe your country needs to stop depending on us to solve your fucking problems. You yourself stated “you dropped the ball, and now we all pay the price.”

        • Noneofyourbusiness

          Maybe you should get your country to pass a U.N resolution telling the U.S to stay out of the internet police business. As an American, I would love for you to do it.

      • Noneofyourbusiness

        If YOUR country and all the rest would tell the U.S to get screwed, then maybe the U.S would not be trying this crap. So tell YOUR leaders to step up and say NO to the U.S!

        But NO, your leaders are just as corrupt as ours, and if even possible, more so. Do not complain that it is the evil empire causing all the worlds troubles when your government lets us do it. Who do they call when they are in trouble? The U.S. If your country was invaded, who would you want showing up to stop the invaders?

        Maybe the U.S should just stay out of the worlds troubles, and let’s see how long it takes before every other country in the world crumbles and the ones that look at your borders see opportunity.

        • Phædrus

          You have a point. I’m glad to inform that even if on some aspects Brazil may be considered a brown-noser for the US, on foreign policy issues we’re pretty progressive. We never allowed the US to build a military base on our territory (like many “advanced” countries have – Italy and such), and bear in mind we’ve got Barreira do Inferno (Hell’s Barrier), the best launching site for orbital rockets on the entire planet! (To which the US hasn’t got access either.) By the way, a launching platform on that site misteriously blew up, killing several Brazilian scientists, exactly when the base was being visited by Russian scientists on some technological cooperation deal. Go figure…

        • Phædris

          Oh, I hadn’t read the part of your answer about the US “protecting” other countries. Now I see you are just another redneck moron hypocritical bigot like Dubya and his gang. You’re part of the problem, “pal”, not of the solution.

        • Noneofyourbusiness

          @Phædrus Yeah, maybe I should have left out the part about the U.S protecting other country’s, After all, South Korea would still be free from the North if we had not intervened. Europe would have been MUCH better off if we had stayed out of WWII.
          Yes Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia, were huge mistakes by the U.S. We should not have been there, not because it was wrong thing to do, but because it was NOT our business to police the world. It’s time for all the other country’s in the world to step up and help each other. I say let the Arab nations clean their house, let Europe fix their problems, and the U.S stay at home and fix what needs fixing.

          But your right, it’s our attitude that we are the best country around that is pissing off the rest of the world. Seriously, we really should stay out of the troubles of the rest of the world. I for one am sick of the U.S sending it’s children off to foreign country’s to be killed for no other reason than some politician thinks it’s a good idea, while they and their children stay at home safe and sound. And I am really sick at how our government thinks it can set policy for how the internet should be run.

          Brazil of course is such a great country, with 1 in 4 living on a Dollar a day, and having one of best governments that has never had a history of corruption at all. And Human slavery has lowered in Brazil over the last few years, but at least your country seems to be trying to fix your own problems from the inside and not asking for help from someone else.

          Yes the U.S has problems, yes we average citizens are sick of the corruption. But look at your own country’s first before throwing stones.

        • Jaydee40

          The single largest threat to world peace is the US foreign policy where they see the world as theirs for the taking. I am not sure what country you think you are helping but that is a claim many American make when criticized about the trouble you cause in the world. The US always brings up South Korea as a shining example of their goodness saying they are protecting them from the evil menace to the north. Lets look at north Korea in an honest light for a second. Facing economic sanctions since the early 50s from the US led UN with how many Western countries troops on their borders the have held them of for more than 50 years. Had they been left alone to unify their country the popular idea is every one would suffer a terrible fate but what about Viet Nam after the US withdrew and the puppet government was done away with. Things seem pretty good in Viet Nam with a growing economy and good standards of living for everyone. What are these imaginary countries the US helps? In 2007 the US listed the cost of rebuilding Iraq, a country they destroyed based on lies, as almost 50% of that years Aid, now I don’t know about you but when I go to someone else’s house and break something I don’t call it aid to fix what I broke. Again why should the rest of the world pay for American run away government? A nation of spoiled brats is all you are.

    • Squirrelmaster

      foshizzel… get dat dirt

  • Guest

    There should be an international boycott Hollywood weekend. Nobody goes to the movies, they lose somewhere between $2 million and over a billion dollars depending on the weekend, and maybe they realize that they exist for our entertainment and not the other way around.

  • Hoh

    MPAA & RIAA are just making things worse for themselves starting a war that doesn’t need to be started but that’s what America is all about starting wars for something that is not needed. Always telling us lies why it needs to be done.

    • Noneofyourbusiness

      I hear all of you people complaining about the U.S. Before your spout your line of crap, please tell us what country your from! Lets see how much better your country is than the U.S!

  • La

    If they can get away with the Iraq war telling us it was for weapons of Mass destruction, they most likely will get away with this one.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/WZ6PRVP74XICGJCAGAKUHTBJII tony

    THE INTERNET IS AND SHOULD BE FREE FOR EVERYBODY ANONYMOUS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK NEXT TIME INSTEAD OF A DDOS WHY NOT DELETE SOME OF THEIR DATABASE SEND THEM BACK A FEW DECADES WE ARE ALL STANDING BEHIND YOU GUYS YOU ARE REPRESENTING US THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEFENDING THE RIGHT OF SPEECH ,USA YOU DON’T OWN THE INTERNET YOU ARE NOT THE WORD POLICE MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS IN YOUR COUNTRY.IF I PURCHASE ONE CD I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO WHATEVER I LIKE WITH IT U0LOAD IT CLONE IT OR EAT IT I PAID FOR THE RIGHT SO GTFO STUPID YANKS

    • Squirrelmaster

      If everything is free, who will pay the light bills? You?

      • Jaydee40

        If everything is free then there would be no light bill…….

  • Jj

    looks at the history of communication technology . when radio was introduced it was 100% (basically) corporate owned until they got tired of the regulations and allowed PBS (p-petroleum). same happened with TV. same will happen wth the internet….learn from your own history.

    • Squirrelmaster

      DoJ, NSA et al can see all this activity… down to your IP address. Apparently the Establishment controls the tax farm differently than understood by most poster on this comment page. SOPA and PIPA are monopoly tools. For example, the FTC’s broadband target for 1 Mb of speed is set for 2020; in Europe, 100 Mb’s is common with 12 different providers. N. American businesses are squeezing every cent out of the public for short-term stock holder interests. It’s a sick world. Private property and finite human existence are the roots of evil. ET come take me away.

  • Smokerwolf

    The big brother is here. We must become invisible. There’s going on a war, freedom vs money. Get ready to fight

  • Guest

    You fuckers have watched V for Vendetta too many times.

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  • Concerned American

    Well, there were too many comments and I didn’t read all of them, but I would like to extend my respect to “Anonymous” although I would say that taking down their sites doesn’t really make much of a difference. They probably don’t have enough traffic to really make much of a difference by taking it down. I would say (not that I’m condoning this because that would be illegal for me to do so) that it might be better to investigate which methods of communication that they use and see if they could slow that down or break it somehow. Perhaps tie up their SMTP/POP/IMAP servers so that they couldn’t communicate unless in person. I don’t recommend doing this, but something to think about.

  • Jason

    The truth is in the below link, thanks DoJ for illegally destroying our files on Thursday:

    http://pastebin.com/iquHfjBa

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