Owner of Megaupload is Arrested and Site is Shutdown

On Friday, Kim Dotcom, co-founder of  Megaupload.com, was detained by the FBI at his house in New Zealand after having to be cut out of a safe-room in his basement. He faces counts in piracy as his website was used for illegal sharing of copyrighted material. Megaupload allowed people to upload files to their servers and then download them from anywhere in the world. People have been uploading pirated materials to the site for a while now and caused the taking down of the site. Dotcom was not allowed to post bail as the judge feared he may attempt to flee the country as he has many known alias'.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/decision-due-in-megaupload-founder-s-bail-bid-4700843

SOPA is Losing Support

Today was a big day for the fight against SOPA and PIPA, both Wikipedia and Google changed their sites in protest. While Google just changed their logo Wikipedia blacked out their entire English site. On top of these protests today three congressmen have dropped their support, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Lee Terry (R-Neb.) and Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) all dropped their support for their respective bills. Many of the initial supporters of the bill have also dropped their support. One of the biggest being Go Daddy, the popular domain hosting site with the awesome super bowl commercials. Go Daddy reported losing over 70,000 domains that they hosted in a single week because of a campaign one of their competitors launched that would offer a discount to anyone switching from a Go Daddy domain.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/sopa-blackout-sopa-and-pipa-lose-three-co-sponsors-in-congress.html
http://www.techi.com/2011/12/godaddy-lost-72354-domains-this-week-its-not-enough/