Out revenge on the offline get of MegaUpload has Anonymous, the U.s. department of justice, the MPAA, RIAA, and Universal ddos attack offline. MegaUpload is accused of copyright infringement.
These include, among others, the MPAA and RIAA. Also the website of Universal Music is shut down. Figures from Akamai show that the amount of internet traffic worldwide during the attack with 13 to 14 percent above the average sat. Also other sites under the same company as MegaUpload fell, such as MegaVideo and MegaPorn, are offline.
At the FBI’s action Thursday was MegaUpload taken offline and were by the police in New Zealand seven people were arrested, including a Dutchman, Bram van der K. that as a nickname ‘Bramos’ company used. Also the ceo of MegaUpload, internetmiljonair ‘Kim Dotcom, was arrested. That was already previously convicted for fraud and trade in stolen goods.
The U.s. department of justice accuses MegaUpload of its copyright infringement to have been committed, and a lot of have earned. That would be copyright holders $ 500 million in revenue and have close to. The company behind MegaUpload would be 175 million dollars have earned from ads and premium subscriptions.
According to the U.s. department of justice, committed employees of the site itself is copyright infringement, and encouraged the site that, due to files that were not much downloaded, were removed. As a result the service not for the private storage referred to, argues justice. In addition, uploaders will be rewarded for generating lots of traffic, claiming the USA.
It seems that a part of MegaUpload by the Dutch LeaseWeb was hosted. The American authorities are still looking for a German, and a Est and a Slovak. There are twenty zoekbevelen in the U.S. and nine other countries, issued and there would be about 50 million in assets confiscated. In addition, there are 18 domain names that are affiliated with the FBI the ‘Mega conspiracy’, and seized.