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Originally posted by jonmitz not be pedantic or anything, but this investigation has been going on for 2+years, and they probably had court orders to seize the property and shut it down (in all of the countries). They certainly could have waited a few days for the SOPA vote date to pass, so I would not be surprised if the timing was political in nature. I mean, if anything it's just going to piss off people even more to show even more support against the bill, so I don't really know why they didn't just wait. Who the fuck knows how the government does things these days anyways... Err, my point is, if it was politically motivated to be the date it was, it seems like it will have the opposite effect. The amount of people reached by the reddit/wiki blackday is incredible.

Yeah that's what I'm saying. I think it runs counter to their overall message that they're powerless to stop international pirates. Obviously they had to do some work to get court orders and make it legitimate, etc, but they still managed to pull it off under our current laws. It really forces the question of whether new laws are actually necessary, and doing it at a time when everyone and their mom is talking about SOPA already seems pretty boneheaded.

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