Megaupload down...

SOPA & PIPA were turned down... and less than 24 hours after that, megaupload and other bunch of sites are taken down by the FBI and other USA "letter soup" agencies. To me, that sounds like bullying, not to mention that Megaupload wasn't based on the USA... Talk about tantrums.

Why I think it's important to face this censorship? I won't talk about how all the money and jobs affected by piracy are bogus (at least in the amounts claimed by the industry and the politicians). Instead I will simply say that modders (working under the "Fair act" rules of not getting any kind of profit from their work of modding parts of comercial games) are afraid of being prosecuted in a "guilty until proven otherwise" policy.

So ask yourselves what would happen if any game from now on would never have any free, non official mod. Imagine Minecraft without Redpower, Buildcraft, Industrialcraft... without Better than Wolves, without the Aether, without Mo's Creatures...
Or imagine more of Bethesda's games (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout...), Bioware's (Neverwinter Nights, KotOR...), or Valve's (Half Life... that gave birth to Counter Strike, for example) without mods. Imagine how any game you currently have without any mod whatsoever, aside from some DLC crafted only to get more money from a dehydrated lone man in the middle of the desert desperate enough to pay for some drops of hot water...

Depressing? That is what a world without liberty means. Bad things for everybody. Save for those few who control the water.