Governments have tried. The "site-blocking" laws in the UK and Australia push piracy underground for about six weeks before new mirrors spawn. The US's "Copyright Alert System" died because ISPs didn't want to be the police. The recent push to put piracy prosecutions under the Department of Homeland Security's cyber division sounds tough, but it ignores reality: most major pirate sites operate from jurisdictions with no extradition treaties.
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