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"We will continue to look for ways," Smith continued, "to ensure that foreign Web sites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers."

LOL. Those big, bad foreign websites. Won't someone think of the children?

How the hell do people like this get into office?

Joakal on Jan 14, 2012 [–]

What's worst is that some senators believes they have a right to regulate foreign countries with USA laws.

Probably because they recently got an UK court to allow USA to extradite a webmaster for linking to infringing content.

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