Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> Le 2012-01-22 02:09, Warp a écrit :
> >    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.

  And now the US government has the IP addresses if millions of people who
have uploaded and downloaded illegal material to megaupload.com. What do
you think they will do with those addresses?

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                                                          - Warp

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