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Originally Posted by sbroome
Megaupload was hosting pirated material (should note, I used it as an FTP replacement for exchanging files with clients who were not tech-savvy enough to use FTPs, so I was kind of shocked to learn it had an illegal side), got taken down, and Anonymous responded with a hacking attack. What did you see the public reaction to be? I saw a lot of either indifference or support for Anonymous, which is amazing to me because just a couple days earlier I saw everyone talking about google's "end piracy, not libery" petition.
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I saw Anonymous reaction as a protest against the methods. And it was that protest that was cheered. And the methods were bad for many reason. One reason was that people that used the service for work or other legitimate purposes suddenly without warning lost access to their files.