@zmud Most likely people would switch to VPN servers offshore as well, so US government would lose control over encrypted traffic, and further press on piracy would only accelerate adoption of super encrypted protocols. So all Internet traffic exchange would go offshore.
Internet is supposed to eliminate large media conglomerates, it is unavoidable, and they understand that very well. In 10-20 years we must watch all content on-line and more than that we would watch our beloved series directly from TV studio bypassing all media consolidators. It would bring their MONOPOLY for promotion to the end. If you remember Napster increased total sales for music titles by 2.5 times, but at the same time as a side effect it gave some promotion for unknown musicians. So that was the primary reason to kill it. Internet destroys that monopoly for promotion. Yes in the world where Google monopolized and centralized internet search and ads, everything is fine money is still making money. In order to be promoted we go to the guy who has sack of money and it is hard to bypass him.
Google search results quality are degrading day by day, it is impossible to adopt to dynamic content, so we come back to decentralized internet again. So, yes, the only way to keep that monopoly on promotion is physically eliminate potential competitors.
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