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SoylentGreen:
US Feds Shut Down Megaupload.com File-Sharing Website

http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/

They did it without SOPA. 

The Justice Department said in a statement said that Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and three others were arrested Thursday in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials.

S.G.

SoylentGreen:
In a further development, hacker group "anonymous" retaliates by knocking the US Department of Justice (www.justice.gov) offline in a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS):

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/19/technology/megaupload_shutdown/

S.G.

SoylentGreen:
The following sites are down intermittently due to distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) attacks:

www.copyright.gov   - US Copyright Office
www.riaa.com          - Recording Industry Association of America
www.mpaa.org/        - Motion Picture Associaton

S.G.

Bekka:
Here is the indictment.  Click on "read in full here."  It lists their assets.


 http://techfleece.com/2012/01/20/megaupload-shut-down-by-the-feds/

Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi):
And to think that the folks that find us really think they are in really big trouble over 1 or 2 images!

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