edit: but Alexandra Elbakyan does sci-hub under her own name and just ignores US courts, since Kazakhstan doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the USA.
If the President chooses to sanction them, yes. A judge cannot impose that kind of sanction because they have limited jurisdiction.
The court can order you to pay, and it can order US banks to seize your money. But a US court cannot order France to seize your money.
Basically, judgements are a judicial function with a more limited scope and sanctions are akin to foreign policy but can extend as far as we are able to force/negotiate.
But the US can impose a few inconviniences on you:
Operators of pirate sites don’t tend to publicize their identities.
Yea, the defendants are
edit: but Alexandra Elbakyan does sci-hub under her own name and just ignores US courts, since Kazakhstan doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the USA.
If the US really wants to, they’ll just come kidnap you.
Same link without google tracking: https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/google-gmail-amazon-accounts-closed-cant-book-hotels-trains-flights-cant-buy-dollars-how-donald-trumps-sanctions-have-made-lives-of-international-criminal-court-judges-hell/articleshow/126454613.cms
If the President chooses to sanction them, yes. A judge cannot impose that kind of sanction because they have limited jurisdiction.
The court can order you to pay, and it can order US banks to seize your money. But a US court cannot order France to seize your money.
Basically, judgements are a judicial function with a more limited scope and sanctions are akin to foreign policy but can extend as far as we are able to force/negotiate.