4chan hacks MPAA, RIAA websites

Frequenters of infamous U.S.-based website 4chan.org have declared war on Hollywood.

Its users led the charge in a distributed denial of service attack on the MPAA and RIAA websites Monday — blocking their pages for hours.

The move, say the anonymous attackers, was in retaliation to action the orgs have taken to squash filesharing sites such as Pirate Bay.

Read more in Daily Variety

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