The Anonymous hacking group has reacted to a court decision to send the Pirate Bay founders to jail by hacking a number of company websites.
Last week, three of the file-sharing website’s founders had their jail sentences reduced but their fines were increased to $6.5 million (£4.1 million).
Subsequently, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which helped bring the initial case on behalf of a number of the rights owners, welcomed the court’s decision and called for the Pirate Bay to be closed down.
Incensed by the outcome of the case, Anonymous hit the IFPI’s website with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
“Today marked perhaps one of the most heinous of crimes against freedom,” Anonymous said in a blog.
“Anonymous strongly opposes this decision and the far reaching implications. No single court should be able to decide what the rest of the world can or cannot do.”
According to reports, the organisation’s main website did go down, but it is now up and running again.
“We will continue to attack websites of those who are a danger to freedom on the internet. We will continue to attack those who embrace censorship,” the group added.
Anonymous also chose to launch a DDoS against Warner Brothers, one of the organisations represented by IFPI. The Warner website is also now operational.
“Let it be known that this is only the tip of the iceberg and only the beginning of our statement of displeasure against the actions of these corporations,” the hackers added.
“We are Anonymous, we shall never forgive, we shall never forget.”
