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Megaupload.com shutdown

Megaupload.com, one of the largest file sharing website, was official shutdown in US on Thursday and the company was accused of facilitating illegal downloads of music, films and other contents. Prosecutors have
accused the company to own more than $500 million to copyright holders for providing downloads and hosting pirated content on their servers. Reports say that two co-founders of Megaupload have been already arrested.
This happened right after Wikipedia, Craigslist and Reddit.com were blacked out to protest SOPA and PIPA. I think the shutdown is a reply to protestors that US government holds the ultimate power.

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English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) is blacked out for a day to oppose SOPA.  Reddit has decided to do the same. The anti SOPA community is growing everyday. Lets hope these initiatives bring a huge change.



Seeking information but can't get it ? All information is still available if you can somehow remove the blackout overlay ( use Firebug?) or just settle with the cached version from Google.

Read more on Wikipedia's initiative.

Google has finally put on a webpage to oppose SOPA and PIPA.

The page is titled End Piracy, Not liberty, it some some nice information on anti SOPA movement, a community link and visitors can also vote NO on SOPA and PIPA directly from the webpage.

Check it out: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ and sign it if you don't support SOPA.

Edit: Google's homepage now has a link to this webpage.

GoDaddy, world's largest domain registrar, has lost a bunch of it's happy customers because they supported SOPA ( Stop Online Piracy Act ). As a result, customers began to boycott GoDaddy and transferred their domains to other registrars like Namecheap and this took the shape of a movement on Reddit. We also saw lifehacker recommend people to Ditch Godaddy for better anti SOPA alternatives. Once GoDaddy saw the movement rising, they put on a blog post saying "GoDaddy doesn't support SOPA now", which made things even worse for them. 

This week, they lost around 72,000 domain registrations. At a yearly discounted rate of $6.99 (most registrations are higher), that’s over half a million dollars per year. It is apparently not enough for them to speak out against the bill.

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This is a huge number but not sufficient enough for GoDaddy to withdraw it's official support for SOPA or to talk against it because GoDaddy has millions of domain registered under them.