10 Key facts: Anonymous Retaliates for MegaUpload
1. Raids inflame political debate. "proposed anti-piracy legislation--the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)"
2. Anonymous responds with massive DDoS attack. "the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in history"
3. DOJ questions Anonymous assertions.
4. Anonymous links launch auto-attacks.
5. Megaupload was mega-popular. "Statistics from Google AdSense"
6. Indictment hinged on Virginia servers. "Given the push by the RIAA and MPAA for SOPA and PIPA to target rogue foreign websites hosting pirated content"
7. Copyright enforcers signal elation.
8. Executives dismiss allegations.
9. Feds captured conversations.
10. Filesharing remains highly politicized. "Megaupload was a self-described "online storage and file delivery service," Critics, on the other hand, often derided it as an "illegal distribution hub."
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