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Originally Posted by nextri
This is not a good thing at all. It basically gives the US court system control over the internet. The internet is international, and it's not right that it's controlled by the US. Foreign webmasters and domain owners have little chance of getting a fair chance to defend themselves in a US court, considering the costs involved in having legal representation in a foreign country.
I'm all for ways to prevent content theft and piracy, but giving the US government control over the rest of the world when it comes to the internet, is not the right way to do it. They basically want to make US laws apply to everyone all over the world in regards to the internet.
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But the only reason this is being discussed is that the international community isn't
doing jack shit to stop the theft of mostly US copyrighted works.
If Russia, China etc... would actually shut something down besides political websites
then we wouldn't be at this point.
They can stop any website that says "The Government Sucks" but they can never shut
down a site with $10 billion worth of stolen US content.