Cyber Activists Strike For Freedom

Cyber-activists Strive For Freedom

            AFP states that cyber-activist group Anonymous attacked Finnish anti-piracy groups after they took down popular file sharing websites. He claims that Anonymous Finland stated on popular social networking site Twitter that they would keep it down as long as they wanted. AFP develops this claim by first telling that Antti Kotilainen, a spokesman for the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre told AFP that the websites were down since Monday. Kotilainen also stated it wasn’t the first time something like this has happened. AFP develops this claim by second describing a court case back in May of 2011 against Elisa, a major internet provider. Elisa looked to block their customers from The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file sharing website. AFP investigates claim three and wrote that in October of 2011, a case was against Elisa. The company had to either block The Pirate Bay from their customers, or face a one hundred-thousand euro fine. The companies choose to temporarily block the website. The fourth claim from this article was the websites themselves. AFP stated later in the year the websites within the two cases became inaccessible. The fifth claim stated from AFP was from a police investigator that was interviewed. The investigator stated that were fully aware of what had happened, because they were following the story the entire time it carried on. Cases like this seemed to always be challenging for the station. Lastly AFP describes The Pirate Bay for the readers and how it’s possible to bypass copyright fees. AFP purposed it to explain how important The Pirate Bay can be. This work is significant because it shows how Anonymous can affect such a strong decision for anti-piracy. The police had to intervene to help solve this problem. This article showed that a group like Anonymous cannot be ignored.