"What about just expulsion from your own house?"

Americans are being foreclosed on in mass, and in some instances they've been forced out of their homes wrongly by a corporation who made a mistake (here's looking at you, BoA).

But with 50% of the mortgages in the country underwater, corporations taking houses is much more real than we want to admit.

``Expulsion from "your own house"`` implies you own it, if you have a large mortgage then you don't own your house the bank does. Being foreclosed upon is part of the contract not some unjust expulsion from your house. Obviously the situation of fraudulent foreclosures is a different matter.

Actually that world is reality for many people. Think about it, how many people do you know that own "their" car... most people i know just drive cars on leasing plans, live for rent, and use a company computer and cellphone most of the time.

Owning something has become for many things the exception rather than the norm.

Do you think ownership was a 20th century anomaly, then? Prior to the 20th century, ownership of most real property was owned by the landed classes. And personal property was not that great for most people.

If super-advanced aliens landed on our planet today and analyzed our history... they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between today and feudal times... there might be a blip of real ownership somewhere in the early-middle part of this century but as things are progressing it'll be back to business as usual for the aristocracy of tomorrow.

Home ownership rate in the u.s. is 65%[1]. Considering the relative large homes people live in today, it seems a pretty decent number. Of course there's probably a large class of poor people who haven't got an option to buy decent housing(especially in a safe area) and that's a problem.

Car ownership and cellphone ownership are mostly marketing driven. almost anybody can own some car and phone.

[1]http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/07/real_estate/home_ownership/i...

But that essentially what she was saying:

You would have a court determine that a site is infringing and serve orders on U.S.-based payment providers and advertising

A court only make the decision, not the corporations.