Steem can't be shut down like torrent sites loooool. You can't just go and hack all the witnesses or attack a blockchain. That's the point of it being a blockchain. It will become a behemoth regardless of the legality of the content within. The only thing that will change is how acceptable it becomes overall for corporations and society.
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Could witnesses be sued personally for their role in breaching copyright though?
No, they can't censor Steem, so they can't be to blame for the freedom of speech that allows for copyright infringement.
I'd be happy to continue this discussion further, for the sake of playing devil's advocate, but probably best to not do it in public. Let's just hope you are right.
That is flat wrong.
You can sue anyone that is offering access to the copyrighted content.
You don't have to attack the block chain, you attack it just like you attack torrent sites. You block the HTML interface (domain) from being able to appear on the internet. Literally just force host to not host steemit.com or any other iteration of such.