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Originally Posted by petrucci
While I think that governments should act to stop piracy, I do not think that blocking/censoring TPB is justified. In many ways TPB can be compared to Google, which displays links to sites, some of which violate copyright.
Governments should be glad that sites such as TPB exist, as it makes it easier to find the pirates.
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TPB is 'Google for torrents', they index other public sites.
Taking them down will do nothing, it will only stop or slow down the the casual 'pirate'.
There are at least 15 other indexing sites just like them. Heck there are even add-ons for Firefox that allow you to search torrents, are we going to block Firefox also?
EVEN one of the plugins for Calibre lets you search a well known torrent site....
Then you have the private sites that are not on even on the radar. Then there is IRC, Newsgroups, FTP sites, private servers, file encryption...on and on.
You will never eliminate piracy. It is a cat and mouse game and the mice are winning.
Blocking/censoring/whatever you call it is merely putting a bandage on arterial bleeding.
Imposing strict internet laws will only hurt the internet...and it's users.