I thought the same. There couldn't be an easier way to say, "Look at the lawlessness of the internet. These pirates have to be stopped, oh, and they're also a threat to homeland security."

Yeah, this was a really bad idea on all counts.

EDIT: I don't care about being downvoted, but I would like to know why anyone thinks this is a good idea? It accomplishes nothing and makes us look bad. I understand why people are upset, but this does not help.

I don't really want to get meta but it's possible you were downvoted not in disagreement but because someone felt your post contributed little more than a "+1" post.

You might be right about that, but I think it's pretty important not to get mixed up with this.

I know they're not really doing anything harmful to the computers, but they're making us look like criminals.

Isn't the other side that it supports why SOPA isn't fair in seeing how a GOV site was taken down without due process?

That's irrelevant to the optics of the situation, however. SOPA's efficacy at preventing any of these acts wouldn't be a factor in its proponents' use of them to advocate in favour of it.

Yeah, no amount of logic matters when appealing to the general public. Right now, the average person thinks Megaupload anonymously took down the DOJ.