#opmegaupload

#opmegaupload was one of the consequences of the FBI recently deciding to shut down the Megaupload file sharing service. The company's servers were confiscated when the website was shut down.

Not long after the crackdown, the activist network Anonymous went on the attack against the United States Department of Justice in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks have been organised via IRC and Twitter, among others, under the name/hashtag #opmegaupload. RIAA and the US Copyright Office were two of the websites affected, and so they were unavailable for a time.

The FBI had the opportunity to crack down on the Hong Kong-based company because...

Follow this link to read the full article at our wordpress blog.