What they will do, however, remains an open question.
They don't need to win over the German government. If the US Congress passes a law to the effect of "No US bank can do business with a bank that does business in Antigua" even European banks will stay clear.
I'm American and I would love to see a major country stand up to the US when it comes to this crazy patent and copyright stuff. But there are a lot of financial levers, and export-driven countries like Germany, Japan, and China are particularly vulnerable.
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2) Service is not going to be able to easily attract users if they only accept bitcoin.
3) Why would someone pay money to pirate movies when they can just do it for free?
What's that line? "The truth is not a bulletproof vest."
[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/government-goes-0...
We must have stopped talking about copyrights. Copyright is a system for promoting the progress of science and useful arts, according to my country's constitution (assuming we still care about that).
"promised share of the revenue"
So much for a market-based system where businesses are not "promised" revenue.
"the site is in the same boat as The Pirate Bay there"
On the forefront of using a revolutionary communication system to deliver creative works to people, despite constant attacks by greedy anachronistic businesses who failed to adapt to a changing market?
Promised by whom?
...because only a tiny minority of anarchists trust Bitcoin? Oh sure, you can point to a few "forward thinking" (also known as "gullible") businesses that accept it, but it is not even a blip on the radar of money. The overwhelming majority of black market drug sales in the USA are done in -- you guessed correctly -- US Dollars.
If you can convince me that (a) Bitcoin is something a court will recognize as money, and not require me to convert it to dollars first, (b) that I can repay any debt with it, including taxes, and (c) that it's value today will even remotely reflect its value tomorrow, then maybe I'll accept Bitcoin payments from you. Otherwise, you'll have to give me my country's currency, because frankly, nothing else is useful to me (unless I am in another country, in which case you'll have to give me that country's currency).
Let's put it this way: it doesn't take a bunch of people commenting about the exciting US Dollar or British Pound Sterling to keep those currencies valuable. How long do you think Bitcoin would last if people stopped playing it up as the next big thing?
On top of that, it's not like the U.S. is going to sit around and allow it. Expect payment processors to be pressured not to process payments for the service, goods like t-shirts to be seized at the border if you actually try to export them into the U.S. or U.S. friendly nations, etc. They're already ignoring the WTO for the questionable purpose of prohibiting online gambling, you don't think they would do it for this too?
In other words, now you can set up a pirate website in Antigua... under pretty much the same conditions as you can anywhere else.