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Re:Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone c... by wanorris on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:15AM (#3252188)
If a site uses a US based hosting company, domain name (e.g. .com), or payment processor, those services may still be cut off, even if the servers are out of the country.

I doubt they would have any legal basis for extraditing a non-US-citizen for a SOPA violation, but there have been attempts to pursue charges against foreign citizens for notable DMCA violations if they enter the US, so that could continue to be the case with SOPA. If a US citizen uses a foreign server, I doubt that would shield them from legal action.

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Re:Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone c... by SteveArmstrong on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:58PM (#3252628)
According to http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6134/135/, IP addresses issued by American Registry for Internet Numbers (the US regional IP issuing agency) is under the SOPA's jurisdiction. The problem is that they give out the IPs for US, Canada, and a bunch of the Carribean.
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Re:Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone c... by bdonlan on Friday November 18, 2011 @01:01PM (#3252646)
ARIN assignments aren't enforced by any kind of automated means. If ARIN tells some Canadian company, "Sorry, SOPA says we have to kill your assignment", and the Canadian company says "Thanks, but we'll keep using 123.89.12.0/24 anyway", it's all up to the canadian company's routing peers whether they want to enforce ARIN's edict.

If these peers choose to ignore ARIN's edict, it raises a number of troubling questions, mind you - so we don't really want to go that route if we don't have to. But the point is, Canadian ISPs could very well take a stand against the US using ARIN to enforce SOPA overseas.

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Re:Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone c... by SteveArmstrong on Friday November 18, 2011 @01:35PM (#3252765)
Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.
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Re:Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone c... by chimeracoder on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:28AM (#3252254)
I never understood why the US gets to own the .com TLD.
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Re:Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone c... by jonknee on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:38AM (#3252296)
Because the US created it, along with the internet. Luckily it's no longer maintained by the Department of Defense.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc920

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Re:Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone c... by calloc on Friday November 18, 2011 @01:06PM (#3252663)
No, no longer the DoD but Department of Commerce ...
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