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You could even lobby for a link in the footer with "Site design based on ...".

All the effort from the players lobby, the companies themselves, the reps, etc. was blown up.

By not using US companies, you incentivize those to lobby for better laws.

You don't think Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc, lobby?This isn't just a matter of throwing money at the right people.

Obviously, the copyright lobby will react by trying to strengthen the laws, and step up enforcement.

So they lobby to pass a law that all locks have to either be weak enough to be picked, or have a master key that the police have.

Do they lobby for laws that only allow ISPs to let citizens connect to a http proxy that validates all traffic to be "approved"?

* Being able to do `git blame` style operations to resolve individual clauses down to individual lawmakers, then back to lobbyists.

Surely the "social media generation" can out-lobby the lobbyists?

It's yet another angle where I think it's evident that the copyright lobby is losing perspective and society has lost the compromise struck once over copyright.

Remember Hollywood's successful efforts to lobby the FCC to impose "broadcast flags" on computers by bureaucratic fiat?

As long as it's all in the United States, it's just not that hard to find the operator of a website based on the domain name, and that is not what the entertainment lobby is concerned about.

One day when I worked at Rockstar Games I was walking through the lobby and bumped into the technical director's wife and kid. I said "hi," and the wife was very apologetic, explaining that she knew their daughter couldn't see her father for yet another night in a row, but just wanted to spend 15 minutes with him. I just remember walking away thinking "I'll never be that kind of father.