FBI Launches Investigation Into Online Protest That Took Down GENE SIMMONS' Website Among Others
November 9, 2010, 14 years ago
According to CNET News, the FBI has launched an investigation into an online protest that allegedly took down numerous websites belonging to antipiracy and entertainment groups, as well as the US Copyright Office, a source with knowledge of the probe told CNET today.
Over the past two months, a group calling itself Anonymous, with links to the 4chan Web forum and image board, has launched distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against websites operated by the Motion Picture Association of America, The Recording Industry Association (RIAA), Hustler magazine, KISS' Gene Simmons, The British Phonographic Industry, and other similar groups in France, Australia, Spain and elsewhere.
When Gene Simmons spoke out recently against illegal file sharing, his site, Genesimmons.com suffered outages as a result of a DDoS attack by Anonymous.
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