> 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?
>

Use existing laws to prosecute the offenders, if they decide to do so. 
Further proof that PIPA and SOPA were unnecessary.

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