Yes, rather than blocking these sites, pointless as you say, it is too easy to circumvent, there aught to be a cultural shift of, in the main, younger Web users that like to get everything for free, to value web content properly.
This could be achieved by arresting them, keeping them locked up for about 4 years, then extraditing them to the US where upon conviction, they will get 30 years to life.
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