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FC: RIAA wants right to DOS peer-to-peer network, gets DOS'd itself
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:24:35 -0400
I put this up late last night -- it captured the end of the DOS attack: http://www.mccullagh.org/bin/riaamon/ --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947072.html?tag=politech RIAA Web site disabled by attack By Declan McCullagh July 29, 2002, 4:20 PM PT WASHINGTON--The Recording Industry Association of America's Web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack. The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after the group endorsed legislation to allow copyright holders to disrupt peer-to-peer networks. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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