The plot is thickening in the MegaUpload case and as far as I
can tell the whole thing makes it pretty clear that we don’t
need SOPA or PIPA.  MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom (I kid you
not) was arrested at his home in New Zealand last Thursday, the
result of an indictment issued by the U.S. Dept. of Justice. As
we mentioned last week, the indictment alleges MegaUpload was
trafficking in copyrighted and pirated works.  I must admit I’d
never heard of MegaUpload until this case broke but apparently
it was quite popular. Network World, quoting Dan Bowman, CTO of
Internet traffic equipment vendorSandvine, reports:  Before it
was shut down, Megaupload accounted for nearly 1 percent of
traffic in North America, putting it in league with Facebook,
Bowman said.  Along with the allegedly nefarious reasons that
people used to the site, MegaUpload also served as a storage and
backup site, similar to GoogleDocs and Apple iCloud. But it also
included a file-sharing capability that, the U.S. DoJ says,
enabled users to illeg