POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : PIPA and SOPA : Re: PIPA and SOPA Server Time
29 Jul 2024 16:34:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PIPA and SOPA  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 22 Jan 2012 19:14:49
Message: <4f1ca679$1@news.povray.org>

>    The day after SOPA was rejected in the US congress, the US government
> took down megaupload.com. Coincidence?
>
>    The prevailing theory is that they were planning on taking it down for
> some time (after all, the bureucracy and paperwork involved in this kind
> of operation is not something that's done in one day) and were only
> waiting for SOPA to pass in order to shut down the site, so that they
> would have a justification. It did not pass, so no justification. However,
> rather than let all the hard work go to waste, they took the website down
> anyways.
>
Using existing laws, proving that PIPA and SOPA were unnecessary after all.

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