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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Isn't this a superb reason for the USA to just block their domain then?
If you wish to ignore the laws of a country why should you be allowed to use that country to make money, why should you be allowed to advertise US companies to US citizens and be allowed to flout the laws of a country?
And cost other companies in that country billions in lost revenue?
The problem is the law makers have still not got to grip with the Internet. They make laws that govern their citizens while allowing citizens in other countries to flout the laws and STILL PROFIT by doing so.
Why should it be "This is the Internet so I'm free to do as I wish."?
Or should it be that as they don't block US traffic, don't exclude US companies from advertising, include US citizens in their Torrent links they should comply with US law. Or get their site blocked?
It's people like TPB who will bring about draconian laws and then idiots will blame the law makers, not the law breakers.
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The US can block the domain name if MPAA/RIAA sued The Pirate Bay in a US Court. Courts have blocked domain names before.
But The Pirate Bay has been around for many years now. The MPAA/RIAA could have done this a long time ago. They aren't interested in stopping piracy, they are just whiners, and if they run out of things to whine about, they will be in an unemployment line.
But if you run a website, you should only have to worry about the laws in YOUR country. If every country went crazy and blocked all of the websites that it felt were violating the law, there would be no internet. And if a US company wants to advertise on a website that is (potentially) violating US law, they should be free to do that. They shouldn't be responsible for the content of websites that they advertise on.