We’ve got this thing called intellectual property in the US, and the US constitution pretty much leaves it up to Congress to dictate how it is governed. Almost anything is “possible.”
To come up with a fair answer to questions like this, I think you have to use the golden rule. If you “owned” (had the governmentally granted monopoly upon) the stuff whose “piracy” (violation of government strictures upon violating your monopoly) was being facilitated through the linkage or whatever, who would you put the blame on for that situation and why? I mean there are trolls out there like Righthaven who may unfairly sting many people for trivial uses of things like old newspaper articles, but there’s also stuff that cuts into legitimate markets for software, music, movies, etc. and shouldn’t be allowed to go on.
Of course where the internet is concerned, if some Web construct is deemed illegal inside the US, moving it to a host outside the US allows it to be flaunted once more.
As one who once owned a software company, I can tell you that there is nothing more frustrating and expensive.
Maybe owning a string of race horses.
The problem here is that those who write software, hold patents and produce music and other works of art are entitled to protection of their rights to ownership but the idiots who are writing those laws to protect are inserting their screwy pet theories into the proposed laws.
In other words, a much needed law but very poorly written.