The Otakuologist

Uh-oh.  It seems that the upload site… um… Megaupload has been shut down just hours after the massive online protest against the SOPA and PIPA travesties in Congress right now.  Even

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though the owners of the site are not U. S. citizens, the U. S. Government saw fit to shut them down anyway, possibly to prove a point.  Even though both SOPA and PIPA seem to be losing ground (because of the protest?), some are speculating that the shut down of Megaupload was a power play, to show what the government can and will do.

Lest the Otakuologist be accused of bias, it should be known that the executive named in the indictment is a known cyber-criminal Kim “Kimble” Schmitz.  However, the American CEO of the company, rapper Swizz Beatz was not named.

Read the rest of the story here, at Sankaku Complex.

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