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There is too much money involved it that.


That won't always be the case as more and more people around the world come online. If the US continues on a SOPA/ACTA/PIPA path I could see some internet companies blocking them in the same way that a lot of companies don't do business in China.


I doubt that. The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic. And I'm not talking minor sites either.


"The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic."

Also: The vast majority of non-US websites have very little to gain from blocking US traffic


> Also: The vast majority of non-US websites have very little to gain from blocking US traffic

That's not true at all. Non-US websites will gain the ability to not have to follow US law, and not risk being extradited for doing so.


Wrong. The vast majority of websites don't break US law. Not because they went out of their way to avoid it, but because they simply don't. These sites don't have anything to gain by blocking the US. Ergo, quite clearly, the vast majority of non-US websites have nothing to gain from blocking US traffic. Nothing at all.


> The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic.

Yes, but US websites comprise the vast majority of top websites on the Internet....




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