Yeah there are some very large holes in this act. I'm pretty sure I read that if a company has suspicion of copyright infringement or piracy, they can shut the site down with this act. Not to mention what tore said about individual actions representing the site as a whole.
I truly believe piracy is nowhere near as big a problem as the government makes it out to be. The mistake the RIAA, Hollywood, ESA, US Government and all the other idiot entertainment companies make when campaigning against internet piracy is that they count every downloaded album/film/game as a lost sale. Problem is, just because someone illegally downloaded something doesn't mean they would have bought it if they hadn't downloaded it. Which is why those very large numbers of lost sales they like to show off when campaigning against piracy are nowhere near accurate.
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