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It's about foreign sites, but the legal action concerns the business of american companies only.

OpenDNS says they may to move the to the Cayman islands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Negative...

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True, but the direct legal action wouldn't threaten Google and other businesses much (Google does run DNS servers, but it's not their main gig) so moving outside the country would accomplish very little from a technical standpoint.

Example: A few injuctions from major studios against google for not removing results or banning adsense accounts or even blocking google checkout accounts on time could result in major losses for the company. If they were based outside the US, they'd be protected.

My mistake, with all the spotlight going to the DNS side of SOPA I had forgotten it also included requirements about payments.

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