It seems like Bitstamp clearly doesn't give a shit right about now...
It looks like the gap between mtgox and bitstamp will widen increasingly until in a few days or weeks when/if mtgox pulls through and isn't shut down, and the dwolla-reaction BTC rushes back in, bitcoin blasts off whilst mtgox suffers a major correction. Damn I wish I had a USD bank account for the arbitrage
LOL. WTF ? Were you seriously expecting MtGox to be shut down ?
They are not in the US, US law doesn't apply in Japan. Get real.
Megaupload Limited,[1] best known for its closed websites including the top-15 file hosting service megaupload.com,[1] is an online
Hong Kong–based company established in 2005 that ran online services related to file storage and viewing. The domain names were seized, and the sites associated with Megaupload were
shut down by the United States Department of Justice on 19 January 2012,
following the indictment and arrests of the owners for allegedly operating as an organization dedicated to copyright infringement.[3] HK$330 million (approximately US$42 million) worth of assets were frozen