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Hackers bring down French anti-piracy site

Friday, January, 20, 2012
Anonymous hackers attacked the website of the French anti-piracy organization
Hadopi in retaliation to the closure of the file-sharing site
Megaupload.com

The website of France’s anti-piracy organisation crashed for several
hours on Thursday night after hackers led a collective attack on the
website, Le Monde reports.
On Thursday evening, French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed the
closure of the website megaupload.com by the US Justice department.

The Justice Department announced on Thursday the indictment of
seven people linked to Megaupload for allegedly operating an
"international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive
worldwide online piracy."
Hours after the arrests, Megaupload fans attacked several websites belonging to the US Justice Department, the FBI and Hadopi.


In France, the controversial agency Hadopi monitors traffic on the
web in search for illegal downloads of copyrighted material. French web
users caught downloading pirated material get several warning before
their internet connection is cut off.
Hadopi legislation was adopted in 2009. So far no French internet users have seen their internet connection cut off.

Clea Caulcutt
(news@thelocal.fr)


Added: Jan-20-2012 Occurred On: Jan-20-2012
By: usounddodgy
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  • Eventually we will have false flag attacks on government, financial and corporate sites, which will be called 'terrorist attacks', ending in pressures to clamp down on and control the Internet.

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    joe prole (1642.30)  

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  • well done anonymous !!!

    little dwarf SARKOZY will be gone in may. Good riddance

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    POLUX (282.00)  

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  • Let the Web War begin, I know what side i'm on.

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    BatnBall89 (496.30)  

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  • this only makes things worse and give the government the reason they need to restrict the internet even further.

    and for what? you shut the site down for a few minutes.

    its almost like anonymous is a covert arm of the NWO slave masters.

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    thinkslaughter (1489.70)

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  • the government will never have as good hackers as the public. there's always some rogue hotshot. it's going to start to get really interesting in the coming years.

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    BongToTheFuture (501.64)  

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  • Hadopi site still down! ;)

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    2Crazy4U (4767.20)  

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    • @mentalqueero
      Yes correct, and the "BIG" corporations don't like competition, the guy from Megaupload was not in "THE CLUB"................

      Posted Jan-21-2012 By 
      umzimkulu (616.86)  

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  • Hackers? No.
    Script kiddies? No.
    A bunch of people just using a Denial of Service tool to massively bombard targeted servers with ping requests untill they crash? Yes.

    This isn't a good idea anon.

    Now the government is going to push through this SOPA and PIPA bullshit.

    Anonymous got trolled by the FBI, RIAA, MPAA and the rest of these cunts. They knew taking down Mega Upload would provoke massive attacks against them, they wanted this. To show the world how 'dangerous' these anon pirates and More..

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    sungam (1350.88)  

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  • Here's a new web site for hackers:

    http://www.give-me-my-god-damn-human-rights-to-steal-interwebs-flashmob-lootathon-occupation.com

    Posted Jan-20-2012 By 
    USA1 (3680.74)  

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