The shutting down and indictment of owners and operators of the video locker service Megaupload, hot on the heels of unprecedented online blackouts against the proposed anti-piracy bills concluded hours before, has come as a shocker to the Internet community.
The U.S. government shut down the Megaupload.com content sharing Web site, charging its founders and several employees with massive copyright infringement, the latest skirmish in a high-profile battle against piracy of movies and music.
The website has been charged with breach of copyright laws.
Megaupload, a leading file-sharing site, was instantly shutdown on Thursday after federal prosecutors found the site guilty of mass copyright infringement. The decision came amid a nationwide battle over online music and video piracy.
Here's how Anonymous has shut down web sites ranging from the U.S. Department of Justice to the Recording Industry of America using DDoS and LOIC
Hackers collective Anonymous, which had gone underground for the past few months, reared its deadly head again, and shut down the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Universal Music Web sites via The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in retaliation against the U.S. government crackdown on Megaupload and Megavideo sites.
Computer hackers from the loose knit Anonymous collective have claimed responsibility for attacks on several high profile Web sites in revenge for the Department of Justice takedown of popular file-sharing Web site Megaupload.
The move underscores the company's need to provide wireless bandwidth to a customer base increasingly using data-heavy smartphones.
Shares of Google, the No. 1 search engine, fell $4.53 to $624.13 in early Wednesday trading after the European Competition Commissioner said he might bring a complaint against it by March 31.
The White House, in response to two online petitions, said it would not support versions of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that reduces freedom of expression, increases cyber-security risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.
A senior executive of the Dallas-based telecommunications company wrote in a blog post that the FCC shouldn't have the power to determine which companies can purchase wireless spectrum.
For addicted reddit users -- sometimes referred to as redditors -- that's a hard pill to swallow -- half a day without the front page of the Internet, the social news Web site where registered users submit content so other users to vote it up, or down, and chime in with insight that is typically informative but almost always interesting, to say the least.
The wireless industry is looking at new ways to deliver mobile video services and charging consumers as it tries to boost usage without overloading networks, a top Verizon Wireless technology executive said.
The lawmaker behind a bill to combat online piracy vowed on Thursday to press ahead in the face of fierce criticism from Internet giants such as Google and Facebook.
The lawmaker behind a bill to combat online piracy vowed on Thursday to press ahead in the face of fierce criticism from Internet giants such as Google and Facebook.
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel said in a legal memo that the Senate was unable to perform its constitutional duties on presidential nominees, despite holding "pro forma" sessions aimed at blocking recess appointments.
