On 1/23/2012 8:17 AM, nemesis wrote:
> Warp<war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>> 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?
>
> they'll put the whole of society in jail, aside from those running jailbreakers.
>
>
So much easier than just hoping they will all buy a few ounces of pot, 
and get thrown in jail for that...

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