Megaupload.

[Crayo]

Apparently shut down by the US government. I guess SOPA begins.

#megaupload is the top trend worldwide. One of the largest filehosting sites on the internet, period.

 

[Fluttershy]

Bit of a shocker. Just imagine the power if SOPA/PIPA passes. Goodbye internet.

 

[The Doctor]

Well, that's bad. Spent a few months fighting SOPA and PIPA with a friend, and to see it is gonna happen anyway sucks.

 

[Crayo]

It's actually the FBI, not SOPA and PIPA. Was my bad.

If that's the case, if they already possess the powers to take sites like MU down, why does SOPA and PIPA need to even happen? America wonders why the rest of the world despise them...

 

[The Doctor]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

Here's the article at the Beeb.

 

[Arrow1]

SOPA will fail. Everybody I know signed the petition to have congress vote against SOPA

 

[The Doctor]

The biggest worry is PIPA. SOPA is delayed until february and now they're pushing PIPA.

 

[seabs]

Isn't that why they've got two bills? So when SOPA is denied the PIPA gets passed without many people noticing?

 

[The Doctor]

Exactly, seabs. They're barely any different. The only difference is like who can say "take this down" and stuff.

 

[Fluttershy]

Isn't that why they've got two bills? So when SOPA is denied the PIPA gets passed without many people noticing?

I fear one will still be passed through the backdoor eventually. I just hope the noise people are making about the loss of Megaupload will go some way to stopping these bills

 

[The Doctor]

 

[Crayo]

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

Anonymous ftw.

 

[Roach]

Sad day for MU.

 

[Arrow1]

The latest of sites to fall is FBI.gov, which finally broke at around 7:40 pm EST Thursday evening.

Although many members of Congress have just this week changed their stance on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, the raid on Megaupload Thursday proved that the feds don’t need SOPA or its sister legislation, PIPA, in order to pose a blow to the Web.

Go Anon! The government will be demolished!

 

[The Doctor]

Wonder how long it'll take until they take RapidShare, FileServe, FileSonic, ... to eventually end at Google.