[slurgfest]

The US cannot force other countries to pass DMCA-style laws. This is not a solution.

You have elided the parts of the White House response where they say not to touch DNS, to use the law with foreign criminal activity rather than domestic activity already covered under US law, and to have strong due process for interventions with ad networks and payment processors.

With those restrictions we are talking about a very different kind of legislation and the issue becomes not the means of enforcement but some kind of principle that piracy should be allowed.

[ThaddeusQuay2]

"The US cannot force other countries to pass DMCA-style laws."

False.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/05/us-pressure... (US pressured Spain to implement online piracy law, leaked files show.)(US ambassador threatened Spain with 'retaliation actions' if the country did not pass tough new SOPA-style Internet piracy laws.)(2012-JAN-05)