RWW: "International Reaction to Megaupload Indictment: This Means War"
International Reaction to Megaupload Indictment: This Means War <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/international_reaction_to_megaupload_in...> By Scott M. Fulton, III <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/author/scott-fulton.php> / January 20, 2012 4:30 PM A sizable chunk of Internet traffic went dark yesterday. No, I'm not talking about a SOPA protest. The #91 Web site on the entire Internet, Megaupload, was taken down <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/megaupload_shut_down_anonymous_retaliat...> after U.S. authorities executed a warrant to seize its Virginia-based servers and arrest four of its proprietors in New Zealand. To give you some perspective: On Google AdPlanner's scale, Walmart.com is #97. Social document sharing service Scribd.com is #90. Huffington Post is #86. To pretend it's a revelation that Megaupload trafficked in illicit material is like Claude Rains being "shocked, /shocked/ to find that /gambling/ is going on in here!" That said, its "front parlor," if you will, had many legitimate customers who had posted non-infringing files. So the big question that Colombia's NTN24 news anchor Mónica Fonseca* asked me was essentially, "What has happened to everyone's files?" [...] Continua qui: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/international_reaction_to_megaupload_in...
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