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In their campaign to get megaupload back on the web, the hacking group Anonymous has also admitted responsibility for taking down the Motion Picture Association of America’s website at mpaa.org as well as the Recording Industry Association of America at riaa.org and Universal Music’s website at universalmusic.com.

#OpPayback – Recording Industry Association of America – Department of Justice – Universal Music – all TT, all TANGO DOWN. #Megaupload

— AnonOps (@anonops) January 19, 2012

The MPAA’s site seems to be going up and down[It's up as I write this], but that of the RIAA and of Universal Music seem to have been hit by a Denial of Service attack. We’ll update you as more details unfold on the hacks.

UPDATE: Anonymous also took down more websites overnight. Including the FBI, White House and Vivendi France. Senator Chris Dodd[the originator of SOPA] also got his site shutdown by the hacking group. Here’s a list of the websites they successfully took down:

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