I kind of hope these kinds of issues become more common. The more draconian and in the pocket of private interests the US becomes, the more it promotes use of services that no one by the copyright lobby see as illegitimate. I guess I secretly hope that we (the US) lose our hegemony over certain internet services due to our terrible framework for privacy and having so many laws written by the copyright fundamentalist lobby. Backwards laws and enforcement is increasing innovation with respect to privacy and financial innovation.

BitCoin is super important in terms of giving consumers the right to buy any service they want anywhere in the world regardless of legislation. This takes care of financial blockades by banks and credit card providers. The only other place to block things besides at the financial layer is at the network layer and that is easily solvable by using VPS services anywhere in the world that doesn't enforce a network blockade. These VPS services can also choose to accept BitCoin.