[packrat35]

Another reason the sites traffic has gone down is many people are fleeing the sites. They are downloading all their files and cancelling their service cause they don’t know if that site will be shut down next.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Another reason the sites traffic has gone down is many people are fleeing the sites. They are downloading all their files and cancelling their service cause they don’t know if that site will be shut down next.

Agree - in addition to intimidating these businesses into crippling the collaboration and distribution features that provide at least half their value, there's the intimidation of customers, who must now reckon with the very real possibility that they'll lose their perfectly legal files forever.

We're seeing old, fading businesses use the federal government like a trained poodle to destroy a nascent business model because, among dozens of legitimate uses, it can be abused to hurt these old businesses. Bad for innovation, bad for the rule of law, and a disaster for limited, responsible government.