Besides the fact that this article looks like a troll's comment on a forum, his assumptions are simply wrong. Those who want to target their local or foreign markets except US, do it anyway. The problem of SOPA is not that you're website is excluded from US upfront and you count that in your business plan, it's the fact that you never know if your multi-million users base haven't disappeared when you were on your way home.

> Over here in Europe, we’ll be happily file sharing till the cows come home, allowing all you Yanks hungry for pirated to content to download or stream all the latest movies via other means you’ll be forced to dream up to get around your dumb lawmakers.

Yeah, and we have pink unicorns puking rainbows. For a guy who lives in the UK and writes about piracy, he's totally clueless about the latest news on piracy in the UK or Europe in general. Little hints:

UK:

A judge has ruled that Richard O'Dwyer, the 23-year-old creator of sharing site TVShack, can be extradited to the United States. There he would be tried for copyright infringement and could face a five to ten year jail term in America.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087135/Richard-ODwy...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-1654433...

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/16/tvshack-guy-c...

Finland:

Customers of the Elisa and Saunalahti internet service providers can no longer use those internet connections to visit The Pirate Bay website. Helsinki District Court ordered the ISPs to block the Pirate Bay last October, but the block went into effect on Monday.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2012/01/pirate_bay_block_comes_in...

http://news.yahoo.com/anonymous-targets-finland-over-anti-pi...

Spain:

Spain's Sinde law echoes SOPA, takes pirate sites offline after commission review

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/4/2681818/spain-approves-sind...