FC: RIAA wants right to DOS peer-to-peer network, gets DOS'd itself

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

I put this up late last night -- it captured the end of the DOS attack:
http://www.mccullagh.org/bin/riaamon/

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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.

   [...]



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