They also expect search engines to deindex the sites, which makes them harder to find/use if you can't keep up with where they are any given day due to knocking it out. Still idiotic, but it does increase the effectiveness of the whole insanity.
> I remember when one of the pro-SOPA speakers countered an argument against the feasibility of this legislation with "Google's got the technology."
If I remember correctly, the argument was that since Google is effective at taking down child pornography, detecting something as simple copyright infringement should be a breeze.
When a Google spokesperson explained why that made absolutely no sense given that often not even the copyright holder can tell what's infringement and what's not, legislators scoffed, ignored what was said, summarized it as "we have the technology", and for lack of time pushed to move to other issues so that the bill could be passed ASAP.
