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.

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