Boy, am I ever glad we have anon to look out for us.

According to btc-e namecoin prices havent moved significantly in the past two weeks.

Just sayin...

Gotta be cautious people. government is not your friend. Thanks for the news feed, BTW BitcoinBaltar

+1

MU isn't the first, others have come and gone before. Welcome to the internet.
I don't see how namecoins will solve this problem really, i do see the internet getting worse by the day.
Also i don't think we can prevent this from happening, all we can do is find counter measures to preserve our own freedom.
Use and built on existing and new darknets, set up mesh networks, things like that, where they have no control by design.

Very interesting rant about Cnet and many other companies, owned by the very companies that are heading the anti piracy charge, not only encouraging file sharing but directly offering the file sharing software and many of them direct links to actually share the pirated files. Only to later sue the very people they profited millions from by offering such software~!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc

Not until its supported by OpenDNS or GoogleDNS - its just not adoptable in its current state... Simple Firefox/Chrome addons?. Also Namecoins could not have prevented this, MegaUpload hosted their servers in America and even those outside of the US (leaseweb) was seized.

use this; https://exchange.bitparking.com/main

it's gone down there over the past few weeks. Mostly in keeping with the rising BTC/USD price though.

While I agree with you, it also is a clear message that SOPA/PIPA are NOT NEEDED and existing laws seem to cover things quite well.  Megaupload had substantial non-infringing uses, and that is what (I hope) the internet community is trying to protect. 

I also object to the fact that anyone was arrested this early, let alone the number of people.  They clearly wanted to DESTROY megaupload, because even if they are found not guilty huge damage has already been done.    Where there civil lawsuits first that I did not hear about?