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"Anonymous" hacked FBI site in retaliation to the shutdown of Megaupload
The FBI shut down the famous filesharing site Megaupload.com today and accused the founders of the site and 5 other people of operating an "international business of organized crime." In response to this legal action, the group of hackers "Anonymous" claimed what was called "the biggest attack in their history" against websites that have denounced the computer pirates.
According to the Department of Justice of the United States, Megaupload Limited, through their parent company Vestor Limited, generated more than 175 million dollars in criminal profit and caused more than a half billion dollars in damages to the rights of third party authors.
In the shutdown, they arrested 6 people that had been accused of online pirating, amoung them the founders of the site, Kim 'DotCom' and Finn Batato.
The CEO of Megaupload, Swizz Beatz, a rapper and the husband of singer Alicia Keys, did not appear among the accused.
Dotcom, Batato and two other peope were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand by local authorities in the name of the United States. Three other people are now fugitives.
Megaupload.com is a content accomadation site that permits its users to upload content so that others can download it.
According to the accusation, for more then 5 years "they have operated a site that reproduces and distributes illegal copies of protected work such as computer programs, movies, and music."
The Department of Justice accuses the arrested of organized crime, conspiracy to commit a violation of author's rights, and money laundering. If they are sentenced, they could face up to 55 years in prison.
Anonymous fights back
"Hacktivists" enfuriated by the SOPA legislation and the arrest of the owners of Megapload fought back, closing the websites of the U.S. Department of Justice, the recording company Universal Music, and the Motion Picture Association of America, in addition to the FBI for a brief period.
Anonymous is calling it "The biggest attack with 5,635 confirmed people using #LOIC to shut down sites!" which they boasted to everyone via Twitter.
The attacks on the sites were made with the now-known method Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS), which basically overloads an internet page with thousands of visits until it blocks it.
Some site that would be attacked by Anonymous in retaliation include The White House, the FBI, BMI, Copyright.com, Viacom, Anti-piracy.be/nl, Vivendi.fr, Hadopi.fr and ChrisDodd.com, the site of the ex-senator that headed the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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viernes, 20 de enero de 2012
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Mexican cartels grow marijuana in 20 states of the U.S.
They protect them with amateur mines and armed men.
Washington, DC - Mexican organized crime cartels maintain marijuana farms in 20 states and 67 national forests in the U.S., which are protected by armed men and occasionally with amateur mines, said United States government employees on Wednesday.
Appearing in court before a hearing organized by the International Narcotics Control Caucus, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Gil Kerlikowske said that Mexican cartels are "disproportionately represented" in the marijuana farms of the U.S., but it has not been established if they are following direct instructions from Mexico.
"Criminal groups benefit from remote areas that permit the traffickers to operate marijuana cultivation on a grande scale, limiting the possibility of being detected, and without posessing any land that could be confiscated," said Kerlikowske.
The Director of Investigations of the US Forest Service David Ferrell indicated that during the last 5 years, 80 per cent of those detained for their involvement with marijuana cultivation have been Mexicans lacking the required documentation to live in the United States.
A severe environmental impact
According to Ferrell, between 2005 and 2010, close to 3,900 marijuana farms were eradicated in lands belonging to the federal government, which represent a severe environmental impact, not only because the lands are deforested or because of the reduction of natural river beds by the large quantities of water transported for irrigation purposes, but because of the use of herbicides and pesticides.
The democratic senator Dianne Feinstein pointed out that the authorities recently detected the Mexican cartel Familia Michoacan trying to obtain licenses to legally grow marijuana in California under the pretense of assigning it to medicinal ends, but with the real intention of trafficking it to neighboring states.
Feinstein indicated that this year there have been 12 registered homicides and 62 seized weapons at farms located in California.
"We have to do something to stop this. The situation in California is terrible," said Feinstein, who pointed out that the laws regarding the medical use of marijuana, valid in 16 states and the District of Columbia, complicate the efforts of authorities to eradicate illegal marijuana.
Mexican cartels grow marijuana in 20 states of the U.S.
They protect them with amateur mines and armed men.
Washington, DC - Mexican organized crime cartels maintain marijuana farms in 20 states and 67 national forests in the U.S., which are protected by armed men and occasionally with amateur mines, said United States government employees on Wednesday.
Appearing in court before a hearing organized by the International Narcotics Control Caucus, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Gil Kerlikowske said that Mexican cartels are "disproportionately represented" in the marijuana farms of the U.S., but it has not been established if they are following direct instructions from Mexico.
"Criminal groups benefit from remote areas that permit the traffickers to operate marijuana cultivation on a grande scale, limiting the possibility of being detected, and without posessing any land that could be confiscated," said Kerlikowske.
The Director of Investigations of the US Forest Service David Ferrell indicated that during the last 5 years, 80 per cent of those detained for their involvement with marijuana cultivation have been Mexicans lacking the required documentation to live in the United States.
A severe environmental impact
According to Ferrell, between 2005 and 2010, close to 3,900 marijuana farms were eradicated in lands belonging to the federal government, which represent a severe environmental impact, not only because the lands are deforested or because of the reduction of natural river beds by the large quantities of water transported for irrigation purposes, but because of the use of herbicides and pesticides.
The democratic senator Dianne Feinstein pointed out that the authorities recently detected the Mexican cartel Familia Michoacan trying to obtain licenses to legally grow marijuana in California under the pretense of assigning it to medicinal ends, but with the real intention of trafficking it to neighboring states.
Feinstein indicated that this year there have been 12 registered homicides and 62 seized weapons at farms located in California.
"We have to do something to stop this. The situation in California is terrible," said Feinstein, who pointed out that the laws regarding the medical use of marijuana, valid in 16 states and the District of Columbia, complicate the efforts of authorities to eradicate illegal marijuana.
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