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Originally Posted by Half man, Half Amazing
Pirates operating out of the Ukraine and Slovakia is a bit of a hassle no? Pirates that don't give a shit about a ruling in an American court. Pirates that hide behind Chinese and Ukrainian whois protect services that have no physical address and an email that bounces. Pirates that are using ISP's based in the Netherlands who are havens for spammers, phishers and content thieves and could care less about a US lawsuit. Pirates who operate off not .com's or .net's and instead use domains outside of any US jurisdiction.
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Exactly.
And the real rub here is that is precisely those aspects of (the original) SOPA, which worry people the most, that are in fact the only tools that will work against the offenders you've just described.
It's an ugly situation and, as is all too often the case, pretty solutions don't often lend themselves to such.
Whatever ultimately goes down however, I don't think there can be much question as to who paved the way.