High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs
The ruling is mostly full of shit:<p><pre><code>  Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists
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I'd like to see evidence to back this up, innocent until proven guilty and all.<p><pre><code>  The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale
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No, it doesn't. TPB doesn't provide any content at all. Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.<p><pre><code>  Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works
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According to wikipedia, TPB earnings in 2006 were $102,035.05 US, and expenses in 2009 were $112,590.40 US (couldn't find data for the same year) but they can't be making a huge amount of profit on those margins.<p>But the thing that really gets me is our government giving itself power to censor the internet.