Anonymous Shuts Down RIAA Website In Response To $75 Trillion Lawsuit

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Anonymous Shuts Down RIAA Website In Response To $75 Trillion Lawsuit

Hackers Shut Down Music Industry Website Over $75 Trillion Lawsuit
Mar 29, 2011 | 9:01 AM ET | By Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) website was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack at the hands of the hacktivist group Anonymous.

The DDoS attack was launched to protest the RIAA’s demand for $75 trillion in damages from the peer-to-peer music-sharing network LimeWire, the security firm Sophos reported. The attack occurred last Friday (March 25) at 7 p.m. EDT and brought down the RIAA site for about five hours. The site is back online now.

According to Computerworld, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected the RIAA’s lawsuit against LimeWire earlier this month, calling it “absurd” that the RIAA asked for up to $150,000 for 11,000 copyrighted songs made available for free on LimeWire. (Last October, Judge Wood ordered LimeWire to be taken down due to copyright infringement).

The $75 trillion figure would be “more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877,” Judge Wood said in her ruling.

http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/hackers-shut-down-music-industry-website-over-75-trillion-lawsuit-0642/

[krispos42]

1. $75 trillion

:rofl:


Why not $75 quintillion???

[frylock]

6. that's what makes these RIAA douchebags so hard to take seriously..

make whatever argument you want for or against file sharing, but when you start trying to extort regular folks for hundreds of thousands, and then throw out a figure like this? well, you can just just fuck off!

[devils chaplain]

8. For real...

Do they really think a lawsuit like this will win anybody's sympathy, whether private citizen or public official?

[freshwest]

10. That's good. We need a more ridiculous number. A googolplex in US$. That'll teach 'em.

[calimary]

2. Judge Kimba Wood. Now there's a blast from the past!

When Bill Clinton's first choice for Attorney General, Zoey Baird, had to disqualify herself because she'd hired an illegal nanny, Judge Kimba Wood was his next pick. She, too, had to step away because of a similar problem. Third time was a charm - with Janet Reno.

[midnight]

9. Wow calimary... You have a great memory.....

[calimary]

14. Had to cover some of this stuff when I was working. And being anal compulsive helps!

Thanks!

:hi:

[Wilms]

3. Wow! And I thought CD's were overpriced. n/t

[devils chaplain]

4. The RIAA...

Would that "normal people" have as much sway with Washington as the RIAA does.

[msongs]

5. the something for nothing crowd rejoices until it is their turn nt

[freshwest]

11. What are you talking about?

[Canuckistanian]

7. Why not...$100 TRILLION dollars

[bluedigger]

12. I'll have to check the couch...

$75 Trillion.





:rofl:

[SixString]

13. I'm torrenting season 15 of Gunsmoke as we post.

Giddyup.