This is the US Government, not the RIAA. The US Government is not motivated by profit but limited by budgetary constraints. It would not be implausible for th

This is the US Government, not the RIAA. The US Government is not motivated by profit but limited by budgetary constraints. It would not be implausible for the US govt to monitor packets for the BTC protocol and start tying transactions/wallets to IP addresses. At that point have the local PD walk around issuing citations and then go after the big fish with lawyers. Also, who cares about PR here? No one running the crackdown would actually be an elected official, they'd all be appointed...