If SOPA turns out to be sufficiently onerous, Americans will simply switch to using offshore DNS providers that will offer encrypted links, Ulevitch predicts. (CloudFloor, for instance, is headquartered in the U.K.'s Channel Islands.) Or U.S. entrepreneurs will move offshore.
"We can reincorporate as a Cayman Islands company and offer the same great service and reliability and not be a U.S. company anymore," says Ulevitch, who located his headquarters in the south of Market area of downtown San Francisco, a stone's throw from the city's light rail station.