I read a couple of interesting articles that pointed out the timing of this raid seemed to be fairly convenient. Righter after internet sites launch a protest of SOPAPIPA and generate a fairly decent amount of good will in the government changing minds federal authorities pull a multi-nation raid shutting down one of the most popular sites on the internet. Given past reactions it was almost assured hackers, especially “anonymous” would do something big in retaliation, which they have, and may show the same officials that changed their minds that the internet is made up of nothing but anarchist pirates that can do massive damage to web based infrastructure if there is no law in place to prosecute and keep them in check. I really hate conspiracy theories but it does bring up an interesting question in this case.
