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Introduction<br />

12. “Medicines: spurious/falsely-labeled/ falsified/counterfeit (SFFC) medicines,” World Health Organization<br />

Fact Sheet 275 (Jan. 2010) (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs275/en/index.html).<br />

13. Duncan Green, Pirate Bay to abandon .torrent files for magnet links, ArsTechnica, Jan. 2012, http://<br />

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pirate-bay-to-abandon-torrent-files-for-magnet-links.ars. The site also<br />

changed its TLD (top level domain name) from .org to .se, likely to evade jurisdiction and enforcement.<br />

14. For instance, Chairman Lamar Smith explained that “[t]he theft of America’s intellectual property costs the<br />

U.S. economy more than $100 billion annually and results in the loss of thousands of American jobs.” (available at<br />

http://lamarsmith.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/statement-from-chairman-smith-on-sopa); see also GAO<br />

Report on Intellectual Property, “Federal Enforcement Has Generally Increased, but Assessing Performance Could<br />

Strengthen Law Enforcement Efforts” (Mar. 2008) (available at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08157.pdf) (citing<br />

2007 Org. for Econ. Coop. & Devel., study called “The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy” which<br />

estimated the value of international theft of IP at $200 billion).<br />

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