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US FED Raids New Zealand - Shuts Down Megaupload. Also Anonymous shutdown DOJ page
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RE: US FED Raids New Zealand - Shuts Down Megaupload. Also Anonymous shutdown DOJ page
According to the article, the US didn't raid the foreign country, Virgina contacated NZ's authorities and they made the arrest.

Personally, I appload Anonymous for taking down the DOJ (if they did do that since they haven't claimed responsibility for it) in response to that, but the whole thing is ridiculous anyway. It'll just drive the market somewhere else and people'll still keep doing what they're doing.
Just like with Drugs and prostitution and ohter forms of contraband.

In other words, the US will overreact and attempt to use the stupidest methodology to deal with online piracy possible. I shouldn't be surprised that it was Virginia of all places that reacted this way.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925

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RE: US FED Raids New Zealand - Shuts Down Megaupload. Also Anonymous shutdown DOJ page - by TheDarkestOfAngels - January 19, 2012 at 6:39 pm

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