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One type of ECD is a coordinated DDoS against a specific target (a virtual sit-in). Continuing the practices of non violent, yet disruptive protest originally pioneered by Henry David Thoreau, this style of civil disobedience attempts to use computers and the internet not only for political and social activism but for actual substantially disruptive protest as well. A branch of hacktivism, electronic civil disobedience is unique in that in many cases, it involves large numbers of people and generally makes use of only legal methods of protest. For instance, a single person reloading a website repeatedly is not illegal, but if enough people do it at the same time it can render the website inaccessible.

Another type of electronic civil disobedience is the use of the internet for publicized and deliberate violations of a law that the protesters take issue with, such as copyright law. One well known instance of large scale intentional copyright infringement was on February 24, 2004, in an event called Grey TuesdayGrey Tuesday was a day of coordinated electronic civil disobedience on February 24, 2004. Lead by Downhill Battle, on this day, participating websites posted copies of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album for free download on their sites for 24 hours in prote. Protesters intentionally violated EMIThe Electric and Musical Industries Ltd formed in March 1931 from a merger of the UK Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company/ HMV. In 1955, to replace the loss of its long-established licensing arrangements with RCA Victor and Columbia Rec's copyright of The White AlbumThe self-titled double album The Beatles released by the Beatles in 1968 at the height of their popularity, is often hailed as one of the major accomplishments in popular music. It is usually referred to as The White Album because it has a plain white alb by distributing MP3MP3 (or, more precisely, MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3 is an audio compression algorithm capable of greatly reducing the amount of data required to reproduce audio, while sounding like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to the listener. files of a mashupBastard pop is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the acapella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres. At their bes album called The Grey AlbumThe Grey Album released in 2004 was a controversial album by DJ Danger Mouse. It uses an a capella (voice only) version of rapper Jay-Z's Black Album and couples it with impressive sampling and mixing of The Beatles' White Album''. The album, which DJ Dan, in an attempt to draw public attention to copyright reform issues and anti-copyrightThe term Anti-copyright describes both the opposition to copyright law and specific statements that are added to works in order to encourage wide distribution. Anti-copyright movement N© The opposition to copyright law per se is not strictly limited to an ideals.

Blatant disregard of copyright law by millions of internet users every day on file sharingFile sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers networks might also be considered a form of constant ECD, as the people doing it have decided to simply ignore a law that they disagree with.