p2p news / p2pnet: Looks like the Swedish police aren’t the only ones to be feeling the wrath of angry surfers.

Sites owned by two members of the Organized Music cartel have been defaced, says Zone-h.

Hit were Sony BMG and Warner Music with sonymusic.it, sonymusicstudios.co.uk and warnermusic.com.tw as the affected sites.

The mirrors of the defacements are: sonymusic.it/index.php , sonymusicstudios.co.uk , warnermusic.com.tw, says the post, and, “While writing this article, both sonymusic.it and sony musicstudios.co.uk turn out to be still defaced, whereas warnermusic.com.tw is impossible to reach”.

On Sony, Zone-h says it saw another defacement against the website sonymusiceurope.com 10 days ago.

Both the attacks on the Sony BMG websites were by LuCky_Luke.

“The attacked websites, which are on different machines, are hosted by the same provider, that is Savvis.net,” says the story. “The defacer reported the breach at the CMS level. About Warner Music, the defacement was performed by a crew of defacers who come from Chile, known as ‘byond hackers team’.

“One year ago, the same website was attacked by the XTech Inc, a team of Mexicans and Argentineans who have been defacing for a long time,” says Zone-h.

“About those defacements that involved in such a short period of time both Warner and Sony, we wonder if this happened just by chance or if this is the expression of a far more complex plot. It could be interesting drawing out some focus points: let’s start from the concept that lately Major Record Companies are more and more under fire, every day we hear about anti-piracy countermeasures by the RIAA (the Recording Industry Association of America).

“Some of these actions are quite questionable, as the decision to limit information exchanges by closing P2P networks, or by forbidding the use of P2P software. Then we can’t forget their conveying Trojan horses on P2P networks by pretending they were mp3 and videos, in order to punish those who downloaded materials under copyright. Last but not least, the rising of CD and DVD prices and the massive adoption of invasive DRM systems.

“About that we can’t forget the last vicissitude that involved Sony BMG: the case of those root-kits installed on users’ systems without tthe user’s knowledge. Did the last events start a sort of digital guerrilla against Major Companies? For sure, beyond last issues, there are older reasons: the message posted on www.warnermusic.com.tw home page : “phnx defaced you – byond crew — fuck capitalism”, is quite clear…”

There have been no reports, so far, of attacks on the other two Organized Music cartel owners, EMI and Vivendi Universal.

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Also See:
angry surfers – Swedish police site hacked, June 2, 2006
Zone-h – Music Companies under hackers’ fire, May 31, 2006

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