Minecraftia Day Internet Blackout

The Minecraftia Day Internet Blackout (マインクラフト国の日のインターネット停電), otherwise known as the Seizure of Melee FLACs X, was a major hacking incident that took place on May 17, 2009. Melee FLACs X, a VidSpace channel that had more than 500,000 subscribers, following a DMCA notice from Nintendo of El Kadsre, was shut down after being accused of harboring copyrighted game music, with a large majority of it owned by Nintendo. According to the indictment, the channel was accused of taking away more than $200 million in revenue from Nintendo.

This caused immediate unrest among fans of the channel. In retaliation, hackers defaced Nintendo of El Kadsre's website using SQL injection and launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against companies who issued DMCA takedowns on the channel. El TV Kadsre reported it to be one of the worst internet boycotts against intellectual property in history.

Background
Katsuo Nishihara, a Canadian-born computer programmer, founded Melee FLACs X on VidSpace in 1999 and was originally based in Kozankyo, Minecraftia. The channel provided extended music tracks for users to listen to. At its peak, it garnered over 1 billion views, had 500,000 subscribers, and was the 13th most-viewed channel on VidSpace.

Seizure
On Sunday, May 17, 2009, at approximately 1:30 PM PDT, the channel was closed by Nintendo due to allegations that the channel's founders were in violation of piracy laws. The allegations stated that Nintendo had lost more than $200 million in lost revenue from pirated music that the channel specialized in. The El Kadsreian Ministry of Culture retained the data for use in prosecution.