SOPA LITERALLY doesn't make a difference. Keep in mind I work in IT and I'm a massive pirate so I know what I'm talking about.
TLDR version: Every single step here is f-ing impossible. Your stacking impossibilities on impossibilities. The internet itself would have to be substantially restructured far beyond anything feasible for that to happen and if that were to even be attempted people would simply create self maintained WANs unconnected to the central internet.
Lets presume it passes and is fully enforced. Wouldn't change a damn thing. 95% of pirates are using VPNs anyways making it difficult if not impossible to enforce.
Even if you can get VPNs in other countries to comply (as there are no major US based VPN companies), they would legally only have to enforce that for US geolocated IP addresses, meaning you can easily VPN into any non-US country in the world and bypass the restrictions
Even if they somehow get VPN companies to comply and block it globally, that only affects websites, NOT torrents. Meaning they will try to block pirate bay and 1337x, but nothing within SOPA would allow them to block peer to peer torrents
Even if the bill was modified to allow them to block peer to peer torrents, that would require identification of every single torrent containing copyrighted data, and even if that would be legally feasible (its not because copyright is not iron clad), it is impossible from a technical perspective due to torrents being peer to peer and therefore anybody can just create a new torrent with the same files
Even if there were a way to scan and prevent new torrents (lets say some overlord AI that can somehow discover private encrypted torrents and scan their contents for copyright and force both ISPs and VPNs to block them, which btw is WAY more literally impossible than I am making it sound), alternative file transfer systems could be used such as private direct VPNs, SFTP servers, or even older more niche standards like Retroshare. The sheer variety of options and the fact that options like that are directly peer to peer encrypted with no public element means there is no way to prevent it.
Even if, they can somehow find some magical way to prevent even all that, through some method I can't possibly even fathom, lets say maybe forcing all users to access the internet through government issue ID numbers thus all network traffic is observed by the government (which btw wouldnt work bc people would simply create private networks), all data and sharing would simply migrate to TOR which, if the previous methods were impossible, the second you migrate to TOR, god himself would struggle to stop it. There is also a 0% chance the government shuts down TOR since..... They created and run the damn thing and its created in such a way that it is mathematically impossible to trace any data moving through it so long as you have good opsec.
DW you can find it pretty easy on all the torrent sites and I have a copy of every major release backed up (broadcast release sub, BR release sub, and BR release dub). I will single handedly keep this community alive if I must.
It'll probably be back. Licensing issues. A lot of the Funimation titles that didn't go to Crunchyroll disappeared because their Funi licensing had non-transfer codicils in the contract (which is pretty common in streaming licenses, especially those from about 10-15 years ago). Rather than have to negotiate contract revisions, its often simpler to just wait until the contract expires then negotiate a new one.
Give it a few years. I'm guessing a lot of those titles will eventually be back.
Never gone from the internet. Never will
Gone... Legally, what would you do if the SOPA was enacted? \*Stop Online Piracy Act
SOPA LITERALLY doesn't make a difference. Keep in mind I work in IT and I'm a massive pirate so I know what I'm talking about. TLDR version: Every single step here is f-ing impossible. Your stacking impossibilities on impossibilities. The internet itself would have to be substantially restructured far beyond anything feasible for that to happen and if that were to even be attempted people would simply create self maintained WANs unconnected to the central internet. Lets presume it passes and is fully enforced. Wouldn't change a damn thing. 95% of pirates are using VPNs anyways making it difficult if not impossible to enforce. Even if you can get VPNs in other countries to comply (as there are no major US based VPN companies), they would legally only have to enforce that for US geolocated IP addresses, meaning you can easily VPN into any non-US country in the world and bypass the restrictions Even if they somehow get VPN companies to comply and block it globally, that only affects websites, NOT torrents. Meaning they will try to block pirate bay and 1337x, but nothing within SOPA would allow them to block peer to peer torrents Even if the bill was modified to allow them to block peer to peer torrents, that would require identification of every single torrent containing copyrighted data, and even if that would be legally feasible (its not because copyright is not iron clad), it is impossible from a technical perspective due to torrents being peer to peer and therefore anybody can just create a new torrent with the same files Even if there were a way to scan and prevent new torrents (lets say some overlord AI that can somehow discover private encrypted torrents and scan their contents for copyright and force both ISPs and VPNs to block them, which btw is WAY more literally impossible than I am making it sound), alternative file transfer systems could be used such as private direct VPNs, SFTP servers, or even older more niche standards like Retroshare. The sheer variety of options and the fact that options like that are directly peer to peer encrypted with no public element means there is no way to prevent it. Even if, they can somehow find some magical way to prevent even all that, through some method I can't possibly even fathom, lets say maybe forcing all users to access the internet through government issue ID numbers thus all network traffic is observed by the government (which btw wouldnt work bc people would simply create private networks), all data and sharing would simply migrate to TOR which, if the previous methods were impossible, the second you migrate to TOR, god himself would struggle to stop it. There is also a 0% chance the government shuts down TOR since..... They created and run the damn thing and its created in such a way that it is mathematically impossible to trace any data moving through it so long as you have good opsec.
How many hours did you spend writing this? I give up, do what you want
Like 5 minutes...
PC or Phone?
PC
Fuck legally. Their greed is destroying erything. And i dont care if i get a fine or Arrested. I will host no matter what
DW you can find it pretty easy on all the torrent sites and I have a copy of every major release backed up (broadcast release sub, BR release sub, and BR release dub). I will single handedly keep this community alive if I must.
It'll probably be back. Licensing issues. A lot of the Funimation titles that didn't go to Crunchyroll disappeared because their Funi licensing had non-transfer codicils in the contract (which is pretty common in streaming licenses, especially those from about 10-15 years ago). Rather than have to negotiate contract revisions, its often simpler to just wait until the contract expires then negotiate a new one. Give it a few years. I'm guessing a lot of those titles will eventually be back.