World War Web…
Well it looks like the battle for freedom on the intertubes is only just beginning as not even a full day went by following January 18th's massive populist Anti-SOPA outcry and the US unleashed its first major attack on media pirates. Megaupload was shut down and its founder arrested in New Zealand. And then it gets interesting...
The "idea" hacktivists collectively referred to as Anonymous retaliated against the Megaupload site's demise by unleashing their largest attack to date on US government and media websites.
Its going to be very interesting how this plays out. TV media has a significant bias given that they strongly support SOPA and any anti-piracy action. The internet media, however, has an equal and opposite bias towards anti-SOPA as well as a very critical view on file-sharing legality issues.
Will this even make it to the general US public? Or will mainstream media saturate the news with more noise about Newt Gingrich's sex life?
I shall make some popcorn...
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