DoJ Action Supports Hollywood?

Here is an alternative view of the takedown of the Internet site Megaupload.  This happened at about the same time the crescendo against SOFA and PIPA peaked.  The article is titled "MegaProtectionism For The Record Companies?".  Here is, literally, the bottom line:

Copyright protection is a legitimate problem in the digital age, but if the speculation here turns out to be accurate, the Justice Department has been used to facilitate the crib death of a legal competitor to the RIAA.  If that pans out, we've got a much bigger problem than piracy to worry about.

I fully agree with all of this paragraph.  Copyright protection is a legitimate problem and if this raid on Megaupload was corrupt we have much bigger problems that piracy to worry about.

From the Comments Section, this cynical view:

Kim Dotcom's downfall is that he couldn't get big enough fast enough to buy him some politicians.

Lazarus Long's classic quote:  Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.  Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people slip back into abject poverty.  This is known as "bad luck."

I would say that for a portion of the population the conduct of Operation FAST AND FURIOUS does nothing to ease such concerns.

Was this the kind of signal Lobbyist Chris Dodd was looking for?

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff