micra_pete
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Here's an interesting one.
Tonight Megaupload was taken down by the US legal system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369
FBI quote.
In addition, the following alleged members of the Mega conspiracy were charged in the indictment:
Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;
Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;
Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;
Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;
Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;
Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega conspiracy websites.
Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann, and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by New Zealand authorities, who executed provisional arrest warrants requested by the United States. Bencko, Echternach, and Nomm remain at large. Today, law enforcement also executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries, seized approximately $50 million in assets, and targeted sites where Megaupload has servers in Ashburn, Va., Washington, D.C., the Netherlands, and Canada. In addition, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18 domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy.
Persons not of US citizenship arrested in Australia?
Could this be a reaction to the SOPA backlash?
For info
Riaa.com
Copyright.gov
justice.gov
mpaa.com
Are all down, with other large official sites also being affected.
I'm not going to get into the ifs and buts of copyright infringement. But its interesting.
These US laws affect all of us, anywhere.
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John
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Anonymous taking credit for the downed sites.
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Bart
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all the above sites are being taken down by "Anonymous" hackers, along with plenty of large music and video companies (universal earlier).
There's going to be a huge backlash if this carries on, alot more people are going to attack alot more websites.
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Bart
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For anyone remotely interested in "Anonymous", a documentary is on the horizon of being released, looks very interesting.
Website and trailers
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Gary
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Wankers. That's my apple tv rendered useless for now!!
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noshua
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Sounds like xa0s to me
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Budgie
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Fro
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It'll only get worse.
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Budgie
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mediafile and putlocker probably next to go 
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Gary
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Not if everyone gets their servers etc shifted.
MU got busted as they had an extra server in the US apparently which gave the US jurisdiction
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