When we took it too far, I shut down.
"Seventy five per cent of Syria's northern border has so far been shut down [preventing Isis's access to Turkey]," said US Secretary of State John Kerry.
So far, they lack Napster's popularity, but they have been designed to be far harder to shut down.
It is far more likely that Napster users will flee to the dozens of alternative Napster-like services that have sprung up over the past few months, all of which have been designed to be far harder to shut down.
"That's because low-cost natural gas (courtesy of fracking) has done far more to shut down coal-fired power plants and, correspondingly, reduce demand for US coal than has EPA regulations.
Nor is it even the fact that, as House speaker, Mr. Gingrich personally tried to ram through deep cuts in Medicare -- and, in 1995, went so far as to shut down the federal government in an attempt to bully Bill Clinton into accepting those cuts.
After the ruling, there had been talk that Google might have to go so far as to shut down YouTube in Italy, because the company said it would be impossible to vet the 72 hours of video content that are uploaded onto YouTube around the world every minute.
And a whole new generation of services (Gnutella and FreeNet, for instance) is going to be far harder to shut down than Napster, because they operate without a central server.Many in the industry are hoping that they can stop piracy at its source: CDs.
The organization itself has so far escaped being shut down because, on paper, it doesn't exist: using a loophole in the law, it has simply not registered — and hence cannot be liquidated the way many other Russian N.G.O.s have been in the past three years.
Where Mr. Gingrich was fiery and combative, blamed for going so far as to shut down the government rather than concede to President Clinton, aides say Mr. Hastert is subdued and devoid of ego, a conciliator who works diligently behind the scenes.
