14 DAY TRIAL // Anonymous Finland took down the official website of the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (antipiracy.fi) and the one belonging to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (ifpi.fi) after the former organization obtained a court order that forced one of the country’s biggest IPSs to block its account holders from accessing The Pirate Bay (TPB).
Elisa, the ISP in question, released a statement to reveal that they appealed the court’s decision, but until then, the popular torrent website remains blocked.
Hacktivists from both the Finn and international scenes were quick to react.
“Ladies and gents: today we will focus on Finland. and every country like it who has begun a campaign of censorship. First steps to Cyberwar,” said Sabu, the well-known Anonymous member.
“To the Finnish government: Stop censorship or deal with the consequences,” he wrote on Twitter.
A short time later, the infamous hacktivist collective launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the anti-piracy organizations’ sites, taking them out of use.
“TANGO DOWN IFPI.fi the mind behind the block of thepiratebay in finland!” hackers tweeted.
“TANGO DOWN antipiracy.fi Copyright Information & Anti-Piracy Centre In Finland | And We'll keep it down as long as We want.”
Even F-Secure’s CTO Mikko Hypponen came under heavy fire as the hacktivists started accusing him of supporting censorship. Of course, this is an incorrect fact and Hypponen quickly came forward to prove that he supports Internet freedom, even giving a great speech at a recent event that took place in Brussels on the topic.
At the time of writing, around 24 hours after the attacks took place, both the websites are still unavailable.
Hackers around the world started focusing their attention to SOPA and other acts they consider to threaten the freedom of the internet and in many cases they successfully stated their point of view.
Mikko Hypponen's talk on internet freedom:
