The US technology companies joined together to file a brief (pdf) with New York courts urging judges to strike down a preliminary injunction filed by six film studios of the Motion Picture Association of America MPAAA), which calls for a blockade of the alleged piracy site Movietube.
The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
Mr Arthur Scargill, the miners' president, who was at the coke plant at the height of the demonstration, had called for a huge blockade to stop coke being sent to the British Steel Corporation's works in Scunthorpe, 40 miles away.
It called for a Union blockade of the Confederacy's coastline as well as a decisive thrust down the Mississippi River and an ensuing strangulation of the South by Federal land and naval forces.
In a meeting in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, delegations from Somalia and Kenya, which has sent hundreds of soldiers backed by tanks and gunships into Somalia in a premeditated assault to vanquish the Shabab Islamist militant group, called for a naval blockade on the Shabab-controlled seaport of Kismaayo.
Some Italian politicians had called for a naval blockade but Mr Renzi said this would only help the smugglers as there would be more ships to rescue migrants.
Truman called for a naval blockade of Korea, only to learn that due to budget cutbacks, the U.S. Navy could not enforce such a measure.
"The standard has now been set, next year we will have bigger banners, louder voices, more fireworks, more people and a louder sound system!" Supporters of the movement had earlier called for a "massive Anonymous blockade of London city".
Opposition leader Khaleda Zia even called for a temporary break in the blockade on Tuesday to allow Bangladeshis to celebrate the national cricket team's surprising victory over England in the World Cup.
He told Radio Indeks, "We will call for a total blockade of the system and institutions".
