Anonymous began to avenge Megaupload

A few minutes after the US Department of Justice published a report on the arrest of the founders of Megaupload, anonymous operation was announced . At this moment, as a result of DDoS attacks, there are the websites of the Ministry of Justice , the RIAA , MPAA , Universal Music and the US Copyright Office .

Today's attack was the largest in history. Anonymous: 5635 people confirmed the use of LOIC (a program for stress testing sites, there are client and server versions).

Recall that in the case of Megaupload 4 people were arrested, another three were charged (list under the cut) and 20 people from eight countries were wanted (their names are not called). Three Megaupload data centers arrested, $ 50 million worth of property seized

Seven people who have been charged (four of them were arrested, three are still free):

• Kim Dotcom, founder of the project, 37 years old, lives in Hong Kong and New Zealand;
• Finn Batato, Marketing Director, 38, Germany;
• Julius Benko (Julius Bencko), designer, 35 years old, Slovakia;
• Sven Echternach, Business Development Director, 39, Germany;
• Matthias Ortmann (Mathias Ortmann), CTO, 40, Germany;
• Andrus Nomm, Programmer and Head of Development, 32 years, Estonia;
• Bram van der Kolk, Web Development Consultant, 29 years old, The Netherlands.