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Originally Posted by Azure
I don't disagree with taking down the site, because the owner and his top people were clearly breaking the law, but I do agree that the whole thing is fishy. Especially considering there are millions upon millions of legitimate files that people can't access now.
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That's the thing with taking the whole site down. If you find a grow op on a single house on a street, do you destroy the street and block off the entire road? Same principle should be applied in this case, prosecute the infringing parties, remove infringing files and not harm legitimate users. But given the way the US government is run by corporations nowadays (i.e. laws being written by corporations to suit corporations against the interests of the people because of powerful lobbies) and how civil liberties/due process is being thrown out the window, this type of response comes as no surprise.