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shitlord on March 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye Popcorn Time

The movie/recording industry has actually been known to use DDOS attacks. IIRC, they hired a company in India to launch a DDOS against some cyberlocker, which prompted Operation Payback.

svenkatesh on March 14, 2014 [–]

That sounds interesting. Do you have a link to more information?

PhearTheCeal on March 14, 2014 | [–]

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/movie-industry-launch...

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-tries-to-erase-hi...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111014/02583316350/confus...

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