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Originally Posted by TheDon
In theory.
In practice though it requires the co-operation of the country that it's hosted in, and just ask the MPAA and RIAA how co-operative other countries are at shutting down copyright infringing services. There are many countries that just sit there and stick two fingers up at the requests and let them carry on regardless. It'll take an extensive court battle to get some countries ISPs to take a site offline (just look at the pirate bay) and by then there will simply be another in it's place.
This is why the DE bill has the potential to enforce site blocking, so we can just get UK isps to block access to the sites without having to go through the hoops of getting them shut down.
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It's not and never has been clear-cut that the Piratebay does anything illegal, except allowing newbies to get themselves sued but that's a question of morality and not legality. Even in the UK you just have to look at what happened to Oink (administrator was found not guilty, others a slap on the wrists). Many countries take direct pay-tv theft
much more seriously, mainly due to EU legislation but also self-interest since many of the major PAY TV
operators have government involvement.
Cardsharing servers really need to be as local as possible, the same country preferably to work with any kind of reliability. This is certainly true of newer encryptions, older versions had a lot more leeway in terms of latency. I'm going to assume N3 was designed with defeating card sharing in mind, especially long range and if the servers are on British soil, prosecution should be straightforward.