Hackers have taken revenge on the music industry after Romania’s first convicted file-sharer was given a heavy fine. The industry said they had selected the individual at random, but hackers responded rather less randomly by causing the music industry website to blocked as malicious by both Google and Firefox.
The Romanian music industry has claimed its first legal victory against one of the country’s file-sharers. After getting access to a Direct Connect hub in 2007 they allegedly used basic techniques to select an individual at random - who just happened to be sharing 66GB of music files.
Those annoyed at the handing down of a heavy fine took rather less time to issue their punishment. The UPFR music industry website was targeted by hackers in a revenge attack. It’s not clear exactly what they did to it, but their actions caused the domain to become blocked as a malicious site by both Google and Firefox.
More: http://torrentfreak.com/hackers-whack-music-industry-for-punishing-pirate-090802/
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The Romanian music industry has claimed its first legal victory against one of the country’s file-sharers. After getting access to a Direct Connect hub in 2007 they allegedly used basic techniques to select an individual at random - who just happened to be sharing 66GB of music files.
Those annoyed at the handing down of a heavy fine took rather less time to issue their punishment. The UPFR music industry website was targeted by hackers in a revenge attack. It’s not clear exactly what they did to it, but their actions caused the domain to become blocked as a malicious site by both Google and Firefox.
More: http://torrentfreak.com/hackers-whack-music-industry-for-punishing-pirate-090802/
