Oct 7, 2010 Comments Off
Threat: DDoS attack against Spanish Copyright Protection Society
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) or Denial of Service (DoS) are used often as a targeted attack or to make a point. As is the case in Spain were the Spanish Copyright Protection Society (SGAE) is a target of a DDoS attack by the anonymous group calling for free peer to peer (P2P) file sharing among other things. There is rumor in the underworld of many such attacks over the next months against intellectual property groups for “Operation Payback”, as we have already seen against the RIAA and MPAA in September. Below is what the anonymous group had to say to the media:
“Paying the government for digital media is ridiculous. The artist who makes music wants to be paid. Music labels want their fair share for producing, watchdogs want their share and thanks to the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the government assumes an additional profit. The result is an extraordinary high price for music, or a minimal fee for the artist (the one that should be rewarded instead!). The SGAE has as slogan “Believe in culture”, while they restrict new creativity by preventing that creativity is shared. They lobbied this Canon Law, which states that suspected piracy websites can be taken down without a court order. This is a danger to freedom of speech, since any site can just be taken down with the excuse that intellectual property is hosted. The “Ministerio of Cultura” should get a message that their current course will only lead to more controversy and protest.”
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