RIAA gets hacked

nicodemus · Aug 30, 2002

This is great...here's an excerpt from an article about hackers messing with the RIAA's website:

Is the music industry siding with the song pirates?!

For about an hour Wednesday, it sure seemed like it, with the Recording Industry Association of America ( news - web sites)'s own Website declaring: "RIAA against music sharing? Not anymore!"

But that wasn't the sentiment of the association; it was the work of hackers.

The illegal intrusion came hard on the heels of an industry survey that pointed the finger at file-sharing Websites for declining CD sales--an accusation those sites refute.

It's the second time in recent weeks the industry group's Website has been attacked, but this assault was even more devastating...

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Its nice to see that can't even protect their own website, much less their recordings.

FULL STORY HERE:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=795&ncid=689&e=12&u=/eo/20020829/en_music_eo/10461

casualfan · Aug 31, 2002

good news, those ************ing money hounding ass grubbers are going to get it.