Why the county felt it necessary to disconnect its Wi-Fi remains unknown. The Motion Picture Association of America says it didn’t ask for the network to be shuttered; the county hasn’t yet responded to requests for comment.

But even had the MPAA asked for the Wi-Fi to be discontinued, the county would have been under no obligation to comply. What’s more, there’s no indication that the piracy allegation is even true. Consider, last year University of Washington computer scientists published a paper detailing how their use of BitTorrent resulted in hundreds of takedown notices that wrongly alleged copyright infringement.

On the other hand, MPAA was clearly involved, and it seems possible that one motivation for the shutdown was fear of a lawsuit from the MPAA.