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Old 11-27-2010, 03:37 AM  
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Originally Posted by Odin View Post
Moreover. Do any of the idiots cheering this on really think it will have a material effect. From my understanding the Government has the power to do this currently only to sites whose servers are hosted in the US, thus breaking US law by their determination. Furthermore the US may control the DNS but they will not go about seizing domains from sovereign nations.

So at the end of the day pirates will do what pirates are doing, move to alternate TLD's (.cd for instance) and host in less developed nations. But, legitimate US businesses in risky categories such as ADULT may find themselves on the end of similar measures in years to come.
You are correct but some new legislation just got through committee that would let them do it to sites that are owned and operated anywhere in the world. Scary ass, end of the internet as we know it type of shit and people that work online cheering for it.
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