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Anonymous hits US websites

By Hiawatha Bray

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 20, 2012

Angered by a massive federal indictment against an Internet file-sharing site, the online activist group Anonymous took responsibility for a series of evening network attacks on the websites of the US Justice Department, the US Copyright Office, the Recording Industry Association of America, Universal Music Group, and BMI, an organization that collects copyright royalties for music composers. A number of the sites, including the Justice Department, BMI, and Universal, were knocked offline by the attack; others experienced service disruptions..

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