Anonymous is a loosely focused group of people which include hackers and other common internet users who work together to the most agreed upon goal of the group. On January 20, 2012 the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted seven people and two companies which ran the file uploading site Megaupload.com. The site, which billed itself as “the leading online storage and file delivery service,” is now offline. In the indictment, Megaupload and a company associated with it are accused of making $175 million while simultaneously causing approximately half a billion dollars in copyright infringement. Among the indicted are the site’s founder, Kim Dotcom (a.k.a. Kim Schmitz), who holds residency in New Zealand and Hong Kong. Employees Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, Julius Bencko, Finn Batato, Sven Echternach, Mathias Ortmann, and Andrus Nomm were also indicted.
As a revolt to this Anonymous brought justice.gov down. It attacked CBS.com, Universalmusic.com and twitter accounts like @TheDailyShow and @ColbertReport. There was a video which announced to bring down Facebook on January 28 but later anonymous updated that it was a fake video.
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