PRO: Online piracy is a plague that steals profits not just from big movie studios and record labels but also from actors, musicians and their supporting casts. It drains as much as $58 billion per year from the economy and threatens millions of jobs, by some estimates. Current law allows for limited action against pirate sites, but cracking down on foreign sites that may be beyond the reach of U.S. law would require new legal powers.
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