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Normal Rules Do Not Apply to the Internet ........The CMU study also shows what other studies on the effectiveness of online enforcement have made clear--that the impact depends on public awareness and consistent and credible enforcement and implementation......

Some opponents of website blocking have seized upon reports of governments misusing intellectual property enforcement measures for unrelated means, such as the Russian police raid on advocacy groups and opposition newspapers in the name of searching for pirated software. (Clifford J. Levy, "Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent," The New York Times, September 11, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html.).