Last week's high profile anti-piracy FBI (USA) closure of Megaupload, one of the world's biggest online file storage (cyberlocker) websites, was so significant that global internet traffic was seen "plummeting" for two hours after the announcement on Thursday 19th January 2012.

Arbor Networks, an internet security giant, reports that three main client regions were impacted - Asia-Pacific, Europe and the USA. The top countries (in aggregate) using MegaUpload were the United States, France, Germany, Brazil, Great Britain, Turkey, Italy and Spain; although dozens more countries are represented.



So if the Internet seems to be running a bit smoother this week then that could be one of the reasons; in reality you probably wouldn't have noticed. A number of similar file sharing sites, such as Filesonic, have followed the closure by imposing tough new restrictions upon their own service.