UFC’s official site gets hacked, probable reaction on supporting controversial p****y bills
The management of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) might have some problems with its revenues, but it is not sensible to publicly support something which is already being bashed by the populace vehemently.
According to recent news and tweets, UFC’s official website got hacked by a bunch of underground hackers who probably hail from Germany.
The details are not known except for the fact that on Sunday January 22, 2012, UFC website 'http://www.ufc.com/' was redirecting automatically to a web page that portrayed the picture of Adolf Hitler. Above the picture was imprinted
the name of the group “Underground n**i H4ck3r Gr0up.”
The incident occurred for just a while, approximately 3-4 hours, and later on the site was restored and it continued working properly. Media sources, on investigating the scenario, have come up with various connected reasons that might have provoked such
actions.
Sources have revealed that the particular attack is in response to an article written by Lawrence Epstein, executive and general counsel of Zuffa – the parent company of UFC. Lawrence, while expressing his all out support for the controversial Protect IP
Act (PIPA) and Stop Online p****y Act (SOPA), said that they should be accepted and implemented on an urgent basis. The article was published in Las Vegas Review Journal.
Both bills basically put forth the idea that online p****y should not be permitted at all levels even if it is done to get informed on a certain matter without causing any loss to the info-owner. The crux of the two bills is that no data can be published
online without the prior permission of the people being mentioned it.
These bills immediately set fire the whole internet community on fire, so much so that Wikipedia the best updated and ultimate free source of information blocked its pages and uploaded a request seeking its worldwide users to vote against the bills that
will affect the integrity of information and knowledge spread.
The dissent regarding the bills and the protest against it were so strong that even the Congress had to pull out the two booklets and did not carry on any proceedings. Only the Wikipedia site collected millions of signatures against the bills. In these strenuous
circumstances, Lawrence the UFC official seconded the controversial bill, therefore a reaction to it was definite.
However, this theory has not yet been confirmed by UFC sources and they are denoting it as a minor technical glitch. UFC is and had been in the near past fierce about the fact that its pay-per-views are streamed online by various bloggers and video sites
which eventually hurts the business and revenue of the organisation. This is one of the major reasons, according to media sources, as to why the organisation is supporting such bills.
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