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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 17:24:35 PDT

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    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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