Darqref's comment about the tobacco industry is a good one. Maybe people willingly bought the product, but they did not know to what extent the industry purposely made that product unhealthy or addictive. And any other industry caught in such a guilty state, with less of the financial resources of Big Tobacco, would have found their products banned on the continent.
In that case, Tobacco money fought the courts, and the companies are still in business. In the TorrentSpy case, Hollywood was on the side of the courts, and TorrentSpy got pasted.
It just demonstrates how the people with the money are firmly in the driver's seat in America.
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