Does the US government even need SOPA?

And the first casualty of war. The popular file-sharing site Megaupload has now been taken offline by the FBI and its "Chief executives" have either been arrested or are being hunted down for extradition to the United states.

This comes at a time when the whole Internet have come out fighting against the American governments attempts to pass into law two acts "SOPA and PIPA" allowing them to take down any site they deem to be "Enabling Piracy". Baring in mind both that the site Megaupload is one massively used legally to send files by millions of people and two that they are in fact based out of New Zealand and not America, should the internet as a whole be worried? This was what was feared would happen if Sopa ever passed but it seems they don't even need the laws anyway. The FBI have classed Megaupload as an "International Organized Criminal Enterprise" and as such are going after them with full force. Should the Internet as a whole now be worried?

More than the simple fact that millions of users who use the site legally and have now been frozen out of it while still paying their subscription fees with they're uploaded files disappearing from the vapour or the fact that Megaupload themselves were just about to launch a legal online music marketplace that was hated by majority of the American Record labels. There's the little fact that this comes not even a month after the Megaupload team started legal action against Universal Music (UMG) over copyright infringement of their own, a case now most probably going to be voided by the FBI.

It feels wrong to be rooting for what are effectivly hackers acting outside the law but in response to this and apparently the only action anyone can really take the Hacking group "Anonymous" have said to have taken down the sites of UMG and the US Department of Justice among others although the Justice department seems to have come back online recently.

So has the Internet now entered a state of war? SOPA and PIPA were meant to be the tools used by the US government against online piracy as whole but as this speedy shut down and arrests has shown maybe they already have the power to do whatever they want? So should all other information and file sharing sites be worried and just how far are the FBI willing to go in their "Fight" against piracy?

Are they fighting for the right of law or just serving the vested interests of Corporate America?