[ale] First SOPA & PIPA, now Megaupload.com

[Lawrence Hamblin]

Saw the story on Engadget after I got home from work.  There's no way this
wasn't timed to come right after the protests.  Ars Technica says the
people running the site may have actually been complicit in copyright
infringement, but only time and trial will tell.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM, gcs8 <gcsviii at gmail.com> wrote:

> yah, they took the nuke it from orbit approach.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Collin Pruitt <collin at collinp.com> wrote:
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>> Anyone else heard about this? The government seized megaupload.com
>>
>> http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/
>> http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/megaupload_seizure/
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