Thread: High Court orders British ISPs to block "The Pirate Bay"
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Old 05-01-2012, 08:33 AM   #49
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
Eh, yes. That is exactly the kind of places regular people go to since they might have trouble finding more closed better places. And yes regular people do download stuff.
"Regular" people switched to sites like TPB from buying bootleg copies from market stalls or work colleagues. That gave them more disposable income to spend on other types of entertainment (the average bootleg was about £3, compared to the £10 or so a legit copy would cost or the £0 for a download). Block off download sites, or make them harder to access, and guess what they will go back to doing?
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