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Supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act say it's needed to combat "rogue sites." Yet Megaupload got shut down under existing laws. Does the Megaupload raid prove SOPA is unnecessary, or not?

The feds shut down MegaUpload a few hours ago. Eight people we charged with criminal copyright infringement charges, and all files hosted on the site were pulled offline.

However, do the feds realize that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections and much [...]

Some agencies have more than 100 domains and dozens of Web hosting providers, but administration has ordered agencies to clean up their mess.

Homeland Security's ICE unit has started the ninth phase of Operation In Our Sites. Following on from last week's action targeting online shops selling counterfeit goods, US authorities have just seized the domain names of 11 Korean movie download portals.

For the first time since the seizures began the banner has been updated to include Korean language.

Federal agencies shut down websites they said were illegally selling counterfeit goods or copyrighted works.

During the last 24 hours Homeland Security seized another domain and put up the copyright infringement notice but now a quite unusual picture is forming.

Allegedly an anti-vaccine blogger and claimed “batshit” conspiracy theorist with plenty of enemies had his server hacked and filled with illegal material.

This appears to have resulted in his domain being seized for copyright infringement.

When the feds seized three poker domains, one of the big concerns was if players would be able to get back their money.

When the initial questions were raised, the Justice Department made some statements about how they didn't want people to be able to claim money that was obtained through illegal means -- suggesting that players would not be able to get their money back.

The Coreflood botnet ring is believed to have been in operation for over 10 years, infecting approximately 2.3 million computers--1.86 million in the United States.

At the beginning of January, thanks to Twitter pushing back against a gag order and request from the feds to hand over info of people connected to Wikileaks, it came out publicly that the government was seeking such info.

Of course, the government almost certainly sent similar requests to a bunch of other companies that simply rolled over.

Never ask Dr. Science about the legalities of music piracy. He offered to swing by my pad to help me out and instead rolled up with six feds.

Fucking guy.