Anonymous Hackers Nigh Downward Music Manufacture Website Over $75 Trillion Lawsuit

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) website was hitting yesteryear a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault at the hands of the hacktivist grouping Anonymous.

The DDoS assault was launched to protestation the RIAA’s need for $75 trillion inwards damages from the peer-to-peer music-sharing network LimeWire, the safety trouble solid Sophos reported. The assault occurred end Fri (March 25) at seven p.m. EDT too brought downwardly the RIAA site for almost 5 hours. The site is dorsum online now.

According to Computerworld, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. of A. of America District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected the RIAA’s trial against LimeWire before this month, calling it “absurd” that the RIAA asked for upward to $150,000 for 11,000 copyrighted songs made available for gratis on LimeWire. (Last October, Judge Wood ordered LimeWire to last taken downwardly due to copyright infringement).

The $75 trillion figure would last “more coin than the entire music manufacture has made since Edison’s project design of the phonograph inwards 1877,” Judge Wood said inwards her ruling.

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