Convincing thousands of people to gather in a place united for a cause is, at the very least, a headache. People are reluctant to demonstrate, and more so if the weather does not accompany. In addition, the effectiveness of these calls is usually more than discussed. The same is not true on the Internet. Last week, thousands of Internet users launched millions of attacks from their PCs against the websites of the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), the Ministry of Culture and the record company Promusicae. The conveners, who protested against the digital canon and the law that will persecute the pages of unauthorized downloads, achieved their goal of bringing down for hours the attacked websites and a media repercussion that few street demonstrations deserve.
The organizers, the group of cyberactivists Anonymous, who act mostly from the United States, raised the attack through forums such as 4chan and social networks, within an international campaign against corporations that "restrict creativity" and the policy of "copyright lobbies", which have led him to previously knock down the websites of the film associations (MPAA) and record label (RIAA) of the United States, of the United Kingdom (BIS) and law firms representing them. The onslaught against the websites was carried out through the so-called denial of service (DDoS) attacks, consisting of the massive and simultaneous sending of requests to the pages to block the servers.
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