The mighty arms of US censorship has led to one of the biggest “piracy” related take downs in a while.
Right before the SOPA related wickedness, the us federal government has shown how much to trust them with “power”. In a swift move, the federal government took out the file uploading site Megaupload. The file uploading website was suspected of causing $500 million of revenue becoming lost for content sellers.
Although the company itself is located in Hong Kong, their servers which hosted all the files were located within the United States. This made it possible for the federal government to take down the site. Along with that 6 of Megaupload’s CEO’s has been indicted, and 4 of them have already been arrested. Many of them live outside of the US in various countries.
One of the CEO’s by the name of Kim Schmitz (look at the picture above) was claimed by the US to have made $42 million by in 2010 solely on piracy related activities presumably somehow connected to Megaupload.
Whilst nobody can say what will now happen with Megaupload, the attack on it was done outside of the SOPA & PIPA mess using nothing but current US Laws.
