SOPA Protests Result in Political Backpedaling > The threats keeps coming

Seven people have been charged with online piracy crimes in an indictment unsealed in northern Virginia. Four of those suspects are already in custody, authorities said.

The four were arrested in New Zealand. Federal agents and other law enforcement agencies simultaneously moved to search bank records and server farms in multiple locations around the globe, authorities said. The charges include conspiracy to commit racketeering and criminal copyright infringement.

According to the indictment, megaupload is responsible for at least $500 million in losses for the owners of the copyrights in question.

The indictment calls the company "a worldwide criminal organization whose members engaged in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale.''

Investigators estimate that megaupload's piracy business has earned them more than $175 million, according to the indictment.

The DOJ press release:
»www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/Janu···074.html

Anti-SOPA sentiment hasn't stopped the long arm of US justice from reaching around the world.