How The Megaupload Shutdown Has Put 'Cloud Computing' Business Plans At Risk

As you recall, last month's SOPA/PIPA protests were followed the very next day by the US government shutting down Megaupload.

It creates a tremendous amount of uncertainty, where services with perfectly legitimate intent can be accused of criminal activities based on very questionable claims. Perhaps the most ridiculous is the catch-22 situation in which Megaupload got blamed for trying to hide the infringing activity on its site. If it had left it up, it would have been accused of facilitating or inducing infringement, but by making it hard to find, it's accused of conspiracy to hide the activity.