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Reminds me of when they took Megaupload down. There was a domino effect where a lot of torrent and file sharing sites decided to pack their things and go home.

First the file sharers, then the secure emails. I wonder who's going to be next? The reddits? The HNs?

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I think it's just going to lead to decentralization. More, smaller fish.

I think you're absolutely right. The only effect that NSA/... (and let's be honest, any other country is just jealous they don't have the capabilities of an NSA :p) has on the Internet community is going to be a wider and further proliferation of darknets, P2P and F2F services.

It's funny I think that's one of the primary results of the internet. I think of movie and music production, software, bitcoin, bittorrent and so on. I would argue they have been decentralised by the internet. I think centralised services are against the 'spirit of the internet'.

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