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		stellar678 on Nov 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" fro... How can a judge possibly be so daft as to put a judgement against companies not even party to the lawsuit? If we find out these counterfeit goods are also coming over from China, should we tell UPS and FedEx they can no longer fly planes out of there?

1010100101 on Nov 29, 2011 [–]

So should they still comply with the order? Why or why not?

Why not issue an injunction to US-based ISP's or even IXP's to filter the IP addresses these domains point to, or even whole address blocks? Do you think they would comply?

haileys on Nov 29, 2011 | [–]

nitpick: both spellings are accepted

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