Despite sharp critizism on their actions, the Anonymous collective performed another  Distributed Denial of Service (or DDoS) attack a few days ago. This time it was the site of the U.S. Copyright Office that was kept offline for bout half an hour. The group is said to be on a crusade against parties that defend the copyright under the name 'Operation Payback'.

In September this year, Anonymous performed DDoS attacks on the websites of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and anti-piracy software company AiPLex .

Previously, the DDoS attacks by Anonymous were sharply critized as childish and contra-productie by one of Tech Dirt’s authors:

“There's nothing at all creative about taking down the MPAA and the RIAA -- and all it does is serve to reinforce their misguided prejudices that it's just a bunch unruly kids who dislike them. On top of that, it gives them more ammo to position themselves as being persecuted by a small minority. It's a dumb move that looks bad and does a lot more harm than good from a group that should know better.”

Source: Webwereld