Operation Black March
Channel: recruitokara
Date: 2012-02-29

To everyone in the world who is pissed off that Megaupload got Party V&,

Greetings. We are Anonymous.

The United States FBI were the ones who seized and shut down the file-sharing website Megaupload.com. But was anyone actually fooled? We all know who was really behind this.

This abomination was orchestrated by that institutionalized system of brazen, public, legalized bribery known as the 'lobbying industry'. No single arm or branch of the United States government is responsible for this heist so much as the PACs and special interests to whom all US elected officials are indentured.

In this case it is the Hollywood lobbies, in particular the RIAA and MPAA, who are specifically at fault. But complicit are older and darker forces—those in power who have always been so determined to exert stricter and broader control that they rapaciously devour our common rights, our civil liberties, our access to information and our privacy.

It's easy to see why these two types of assholes would so closely and devotedly cooperate with one another. The Hollywood Cartel is butthurt because their empire of price-fixing and artist exploitation is being dismantled before their greedy little eyes. The Washington elite is hysterical because, since they can no longer suppress the free flow of information, lying has become obsolete. They see the free internet as a threat. Our new ability to communicate and organize terrifies them. As well it should.

Their end is at hand, they can see it and they're scared.

Let's give them something to really be afraid of.

If, in that moment when you first tried to visit Megaupload.com and instead saw a 'Fuck you' notice from the FBI, you held any true anger in your heart, it's time to let it show.

March 2012 is the end of the first quarter in economic reports worldwide. Send a message to the shareholders, the investors, the executive boards, the governments. The RIAA is already gloating to the press about their imagined victory. Hit them back, hit them hard and hit them visibly.

Initiate Operation Black March.

From March 1st to March 31, 2012, do not buy a CD or DVD, do not download a song or movie, do not visit a movie theatre, do not buy a new game, do not buy a new magazine. Do not even illegally download any media. And if people ask, tell them why you won't.

If you know, love, or have ever spoken to another person who is unhappy about the closure of Megaupload.com, mention Black March to them. It is not necessary to identify as Anonymous or even to sympathize with Anonymous to make the bastards pay for what they did.

You don't have to shell out $8.99 for a mask. You already hold in your hands the power to cripple and humiliate them. Use it.

The internet belongs to all of us.

Don't pay them to shit on it.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
United as one,
Divided by zero.

Operation Black March, engaged.

Do not expect us next month.