Anonymous DDoS Takes Down The United States Copyright Office

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As part of its ongoing punishment of any institute or company that defends copyright, Anonymous has now taken down the website of The United States Copyright Office. The group managed to take copyright.gov offline for half an hour. After that the website started to respond again slowly, with occasional outages.In the last two months, dozens of anti-piracy groups, copyright lawyers and pro-copyright outfits have been targeted by a group of Internet "vigilantes’ under the flag of Operation Payback.

The operation began in September with DDoS assaults against the MPAA, RIAA and anti-piracy company AiPlex Software. The latter was picked as the first target because the outfit openly admitted to DDoSing several torrent sites, allegedly including The Pirate Bay.

Those DDoS attacks were later replicated against many other targets that have spoken out against piracy or for copyright, and last weekend the attacks came full circle when the RIAA website was taken down for three straight days.

Today, Anonymous continued their operation with a new target, and this time it’s a high profile one – The United States Copyright Office. The attack started at 3 PM GMT and took down the site for half an hour, after which it partially recovered. At the time of writing copyright.gov is very slow and barely accessible.

Anon’s Announcement

The United States Copyright Office is an official U.S. government body which is responsible for the country’s copyright registrations. In addition, the Office is also involved in administering copyright legislation and promoting copyright protection.

Similar to the UK’s Intellectual Property Office which was DDoSed last month, copyright.gov was chosen as a target because it is “Perpetuating the system that is allowing the exploitative usage of copyright and intellectual property,” according to Anonymous.

In addition to the DDoS attacks, Anonymous has also announced “real life” demonstrations in various countries to protest “against censorship and attempts from government entities to control the Internet.” These protests are scheduled to take place on November 5.

Article from: TorrentFreak.

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[irefay]

Government websites... not a target I would choose.

[spootnack]

Government websites... not a target I would choose.

+1.

Or I'll use Bots networks with encrypted + "proxyed" + VPN + "onioned" network :lol:

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After hitting riaa.org during the weekend, Anonymous members have turned their attention towards the United States Copyright Office and are currently coordinating a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its website.

Anonymous is group of hacktivists claiming to fight for freedom of expression and freedom of information online, which has no problem with using illegal means to get its message out.

It is not an organization with a real structure or leaders, but rather a spontaneous gathering of Internet users who share the same views.

The group has its origins on the infamous 4chan /b/ board, the birthplace of many Internet memes, where the majority of users post anonymously.

On September 28, Anonymous began a DDoS campaign dubbed Operation Payback against the entertainment industry and anti-piracy organizations.

It started after an Indian company called Aiplex Software openly admitted to attacking torrent sites that failed to respond to takedown notifications sent on behalf of movie studios.

So far, the group's targets have included music and film industry associations, law firms involved in copyright litigation, record labels and even artists, who were vocal against Internet piracy.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the Dutch BREIN Foundation, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), the Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) and the Federation of the Italian Music Industry (FIMI), are amongst the group's victims.

Some outfits were even attacked multiple times. For example, the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) was hit on two separate occasions.

Last time it was during this past weekend, after a court shut down the LimeWire file sharing application, as a result of a complaint filed by the association.

It's not immediately clear if there is any specific reason why copyright.gov has become the main target, except for the organization's mission to protect copyright.

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