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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Yes, it has the potential to affect the internet in Canada and elsewhere. The server itself will still be running somewhere in the world, but the US government can poison its DNS entry and force search engines to remove it from their results.
If you knew the IP address of the server you could still access it, but if you typed the URL into your browser or tried searching for it on Google (and those two methods are how 99.999999% of the world uses the web), you could not access the site.
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Beaten by Rathji
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and this will do absolutely nothing to diminish piracy. so thepiratebay url no longer works, big deal, just type in the IP address and continue your pirating ways. the average computer user will be confused for a bit, but eventually word will spread and everyone will know how to get around this latest tactic just like with every other attempt at curbing piracy