UK law has already determined thepiratebay is an illegal site equivalent to selling pirated dvds, and forced isps to block it. judges by and large can barely even turn a computer on let alone comprehend search isn't the same as hosting.
This absolutely isnt because they are mostly corrupt and taken large payments from big media.
It is very easy to excuse behaviour on the basis of the implementation details. The intent of the people involved should matter, and the Pirate Bay was very obviously intended to enable piracy.
Many of my peers have come to the conclusion making such an equivalence is the result of corruption and vested interests in causing damage to society at large.
I think its just the result of total incompetence and sheep like behaviour.
Either way its definitely caused now irreparable damage to what was once considered the worlds best legal system.
And if you don't believe, just ask yourself when the UK legal system last made a decision that people at large considered demonstrated how good a system it is (rather than the exact opposite)
You're misinterpreting the word piracy. Nobody said this.
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The UK courts have extended that already to :
3. Providing an index dedicated to people reproducing another's work without authorisation.
As per all the great bookmarks here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_th...
->order to get some protections from government spying.
I suspect the governments who actively make their own citizens vulnerable to spying by other governments probably won't be around that much longer. The kind of incompetence and arrogance that comes with making your citizenship vulnerable to foreign influence to protect the status quo in the name of "national security" has never ever ended well for the status quo.