Anonymous attack Mexico websites to protest copyright law | Inquirer Technology

Anonymous attack Mexico websites to protest copyright law

/ 11:04 AM January 28, 2012

MEXICO CITY — The shadowy online hackers group Anonymous blocked access to the websites of the Mexican Senate and the Interior Ministry Friday to protest a proposed law to fine people who violate copyright online.

The proposal, from conservative senator Federico Doring, is widely seen as the Mexican version of SOPA — the US Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act that Wikipedia and other Web giants have denounced as a threat to Internet freedom.

Anonymous announced the attacks on its Spanish Twitter account Friday.

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Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire later told a news conference that the ministry’s site had been blocked for around five minutes in late morning.

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The site had not been compromised and officials were investigating, Poire said.

Doring said on his Twitter account that Anonymous had a right to show it was against his proposal but did not have a right to attack web pages.

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He insisted that the proposal “does not contemplate any criminal punishment” and would not sanction users of social networks because they do not make profits.

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TOPICS: content, Copyright, Hackers, hacking, Internet, Laws, Mexico, Stop Online Piracy Act, Website
TAGS: content, Copyright, Hackers, hacking, Internet, Laws, Mexico, Stop Online Piracy Act, Website

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