Perfect timing.

At least that's what I've got from my observation of the current internet-blocking & piracy situation.

SOPA/PIPA have been put on a shelf (not only) due to the internet "strike" of big sites such as Wikipedia and others, held on previous Wednesday. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage

Suddenly, the Megaupload company has been accused from "engaging in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scalewith estimated harm to copyright holders well in excess of $500,000,000 and reported income inexcess of $175,000,000". http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment

It's a frequently discussed topic these days http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/20/business/megaupload-shutdown/index.html and so I'm going to add one of my thoughts that came from my observation:

Could this timing be made on purpose?

Of course it is. You can't NOT see what's been happening about the SOPA stuff and, as a result of not accepting it on a legal level by the government due to the internet "uprising", they filed legal 72-pages document and consequently shut down the Megaupload and related websites, arrested their owners, confiscated their belongings in New Zealand, including bank accounts around the world; all of that based only on this filed indictment.

An enormous question people are going to ask: How is this all possible without any legal sentence? How can the U.S. act this way in New Zealand, on German citizens, without any trial? It could be a big topic, about freedom and stuff, but I'm not going to deal with this here. Because another thought hit me, thought maybe not so obvious as the previous one but with no less importance:

First, The U.S. started with the SOPA/PIPA bills to see to what extent it'd become acceptable. Second, the Megaupload case. They've been spying on them almost since they were created (2006). Therefore, if they have decided to act now, they had a reason for that. It's not a coincidence. If they have had the reason, they had to be aware of the world reaction to it. And that's the point, the reaction. They must knew every piracy group will become angry, so that the biggest one - Anonymous - will react eventually. Here it is: http://youtu.be/fsjBxs3Knxg

So what's going on next - they are threatening all world by shutting down Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, accessing millions of bank accounts and credit cards etc. (note: "citizens, do not fear, your accounts are save" in the video is simply bullshit - I feel neither my facebook nor bank account is now save - I have no clue if I'm not one in that millions).

So far, both the SOPA and Megaupload case touched only not the ordinary people - governments, publishers and pirates. But as of now, by the Anonymous threat, it's getting closer to, it can now affect all people around the globe.

One could say this threat is adequate on what the U.S. has done to Megaupload and its people. In my oppinion, it is this anticipated adequacy that the U.S. has been counting on - they easily could figured out what's going to happen, that the Anonymous will react hence it will then affect ordinary people. Anonymous is doing a great favor to the SOPA's similar bills here - they are giving the States a great tool, a great opportunity on acting back and more brutally - they are now completely in law if they want to take bigger actions against them and other piracy groups - as they are now threatening the public so the law is now back on the U.S. government side.

People might even see it as until now, it was way out of their reach. Thanks to the Anonymous, they might now start to feel being threatened. So they might start being more generous on the bills the U.S. will try to put across in the near future.

Therefore it's a double-win for the U.S. government - first, they shutdown the Megaupload so they won't lose millions of $ any more. Second, due to the way they shut it down, or better due to the reaction to it, they have now even more possibilities and obtained more power and force how to fight the piracy.

Well played!

China, USA ( http://player.vimeo.com/video/31100268 ), now India and many others.

Every nation wants to be in control of its own Internet.

The essential problem is there are no internets, there is just one, The Internet.

We are living in time where national governments fight for denying the core sense of it.
The main purpose of the INTERnet is to be INTERnational. Otherwise it lacks its purpose and it's useless. Therefore, let's shutdown it totally?

Will people prevail so we'll still have the one internet we are used to OR governments of all countries will join their forces to block The One (it'd be win-win for them) so we'd have plenty of internets around?

The worldwide globe has shrunk extremely fast into One World due to fast & flexible development of technologies. We ain't children of separate nations no more, we are children of one United World and we are willing to adjust to it very quickly and with pleasure.

On the other hand, the governments of every nation are not that flexible and definitely are not willing to adjust, at all. So a significant crack between people (how they wanna live in the world) and governments (how they wanna rule the world) was born and has been constantly - last days even exponentially - growing.

We are trying to live in the world in a way that rulers don't want to, or maybe can't, adjust. I can see it currently as there are co-existing two parallel worlds. Both real though. One global, worldwide and united; the second one as separate nations based on ole good geographics. Like there is a world from sci-fi future within-or-around the 18th-century world. And both worlds have of course different rules and require completely different behavior. And these two concurrent worlds seem to have serious difficulties to communicate, to cooperate with each other making it impossible to (ideally?) merge in one.

Questions have arisen from this.

How this will end up?

Will this end up?

What should we do?

Should we try keeping both worlds or make it one?

How? 

How many internets human beings need?

Thoughts?