[rileymat2]

> How long have they tried to take down The Pirate Bay? Pretty much every permutation of every software that's ever been banned can be found and ran with impunity if you have the technical knowledge to do so. No law exists that can prevent that.

Forms of this argument get tossed out a lot. Laws don’t prevent, they hopefully limit. Murder has been illegal for a long time, it still happens.

[szundi]

You missed the point: these laws are not limiting other countries, only those who introduce them. Self-limiting, giving advantage to others.