Anonymous Launches New DDoS Attack Against RIAA


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Anonymous Launches New DDoS Attack Against RIAA

The Anonymous hacktivist collective has launched new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), after the trade group sued LimeWire for 75 trillion dollars.

LimeWire, one of the oldest peer-to-peer file sharing applications, was discontinued last October after RIAA won a permanent injunction forcing its creator, Lime Wire LLC, to disable the program's searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or all of its functionality.

The LimeWire shutdown is credited by market research group NPD with a drop of nearly 50% in the number of U.S. users who engage in Internet piracy.

Earlier this month, on behalf of music labels, RIAA filed a statutory damage claim of $150,000 for each of the 11,000 songs illegally shared by LimeWire users.

RIAA's request for what is a total of $75 trillion was rejected by Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York as "absurd."

Story - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Launches-New-DDoS-Attack-Against-RIAA-191581.shtml

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