19 Jan 2012
Posted by Miss Kissy 
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Earlier today I reported on Universal Music groups attempt to stop Swizz Beatz’ company MegaUpload from doing business online..
Universal Music group took down Swizzy’s $3 million youtube promotions video commercial and Swizz sued them over it. Although Universal snatched the video down, Youtube put it back up stating that Universal was pretty much over stepping their boundaries.. Click here for the entire story and video)
Now that video has been updated saying MegaUpload is down… It’s down because the FBI shut the site down and arrested 4 people in connection with the site..
By far the most surprising thing about the news that four people have been arrested by the FBI in connection with a 72-page indictment handed down on file-sharing site Megaupload (and its streaming-video sister Megavideo) is still that Swizz Beatz is the companies CEO.
One of the four people arrested today is the companies founder Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz was arrested over allegations that his site hosted pirated media. Schmitz also had over $6 million in luxury cars seized. Cars with extremely conspicuous plates, one proclaiming him, among other things as “God.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LONG LIST OF CARS AND PHOTOS.
In retaliation for taking MEGAUPLOAD down a group of hackers called ANONYMOUS has went on a rampage.
Within a few hours they took down several government sites including the FBI
Update: Anonymous says they’ve also knocked off the RIAA’s site—looks down for us at the moment as well.
Update 2: Universal Music Group has also fallen off an e-cliff.
Update 3: Goodbye for now, MPAA.org.
Update 4: Affected sites are bouncing in and out of life, and are at the very least super slow to load. Anon agents are currently trying to coordinate their DDoS attacks in the same direction via IRC.
Update 5: The US Copyright Office joins the list.
Update 6: This Anon sums up the mood in their “official” chat room at the moment:
Danzu: STOP EVERYTHING, who are we DoSing right now?
Update 7: Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous’ history—over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.
Update 8: the Anonymous DDoS planning committee is chittering so quickly, it’s making my laptop fan spin.
Update 9: Major record label EMI is down for the count.
Update 10: La résistance est international—French copyright authority HADOPI bites the dust under Anon pressure.
Update 11: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has fallen and can’t get up.
Update 12: Anonymous has released a statement about today’s hacks.
For now the SOPA act has yet to be passed, but the government doesn’t seem to care.. If the SOPA act passes the internet will be scary.. All of your favorite sites will pretty much be sensored.
No word from Swizz Beatz yet.. He’s been pretty quiet since the arrests took place..
But hey, at least he still has his Reebok line..
What is SOPA and Pipa?
