The day after the anti-SOPA/PIPA protests (the largest coordinated protest in the history of the Internet), the Department of Justice took down Megaupload. It would seem hard to argue that the timing of this takedown was happenstance. Not to be outdone, the loose collective called Anonymous struck back in the largest coordinated distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack in the history of the Internet. Targeted were the websites of the MPAA, RIAA, BMI, Universal and several federal law...
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