Open silos, missiles in the air. After both the FBI and the Department of Justice of the United States closed the Megaupload site in a joint operation, the consequences are being seen across the Web. The most important response has been found between the group of Anonymous, who has deployed the largest attack in its history. According to published data, more than five thousand users have been involved in the attack on specific sites, breaking down the gates of the Department of Justice, the RIAA, MPAA and many others.After the massive protests that took place on Web January 18 in protest to the advancement of SOPA laws and PIPA, came the news of an intervention by the FBI and the Department of Justice United States against the storage service of Megaupload website. As Max told here, its founder Kim Dotcom and six of his employees were arrested in the process. The short time interval between SOPA and the protest against the disappearance of PIPA and Megaupload almost impossible to think of an accident. This has seen as a retaliation by the U.S. authorities, but as I said on another occasion, the Web knows how to strike back.
Slowly, some of the sites attacked have recovered its normal operating state, but others are fallen, or were temporarily disabled by your administrators
This time, the Anonymous group launched the largest attack since their existence is recorded. According to the channels of the group (primarily via Twitter), more than five thousand users are armed with the famous "Low Orbit Ion Cannon", carrying out attacks against high-profile sites. The sites of the Department of Justice, the Universal Music Group and the RIAA have been among the first to fall. Then other targets have been added as the site of the "Broadcast Music Inc.", the MPAA, the portal for Warner Music, Viacom, the website of the French Hadopi, Intellectual Property Office of the United States, and for some minutes also FBI dropped the page. There was talk that the White House site could also be a potential target, but no data have been his downfall yet. Until we can ascertain, the sites of BMI, the FBI and the MPAA, the Intellectual Property Office and the Department of Justice and were in line, while the RIAA, Warner and UMG are still down.
Anonymous has said that "there is more on the way", but guess that will be fulfilled on both sides. The FBI quickly published information about the operation against Megaupload, including specific details of the detained goods. However, one thing remains unchanged: Beyond the arrests and interventions, all this must be prove, and should reach the court that are required to define at what point Megaupload is part of a conspiracy to violate copyright commercial purposes, as the rest of its functions (offering online space, place advertisements and sell special service subscriptions) are perfectly legal. At the same time, this reminds us of the conflict between Viacom and YouTube, a case that lasted more than three years and finally concluded in favor of the video site, although the government says that Megaupload does not qualify as a service that can be protected the concept of "safe harbor" of the DMCA, because in theory, who operated on Megaupload were aware of illegal content on the service and did nothing to remove. Of course, the FBI didn't went to Mountain View to arrest anyone...
