Wednesday, January 25, 2012

FBI Shutting Down Big File Sharing Websites

Supposedly SOPA and PIPA have been stopped, but the FBI is still shutting down file sharing websites. The day after Wikipedia and other popular websites were protesting and shut themselves down for a day, the FBI did exactly what SOPA and PIPA would allow them to do if they passed. They shut down one of the biggest file sharing websites in the world, Megaupload. So even though SOPA and PIPA did not pass, the FBI is still shutting down websites. Then in retaliation an online hacker organization known as "Anonymous" shut down major government and entertainment websites including FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Copyright Office, Universal Music, Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America, they went offline Jan. 19 and were offline for the rest of the day.