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Operation Payback targets RIAA in retaliation for Limewire shutdown

Posted on October 28, 2010July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Wconeybeer writes that Operation Payback will be targeting RIAA starting tomorrow:

[…]

Unlike the last time however, Anonymous is not limiting the activities to cyber pranks. The group has published the address and phone numbers for the RIAA offices as well as the personal information for the CEO and his wife. The instructions for the mission recommend prank calls and black faxes “for maximum lulz and Payback”, as well as pizza delivery orders and getting “creative”.

Until now I’ve been getting quite a bit of amusement from these Operation Payback battles, but I can’t quite get on board with the inclusion of the CEO’s home and family. That’s just too far for me. I hope that future attacks don’t start going more in that direction.

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