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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Seemingly is the correct word as the case was not a criminal case against the operators of The Pirate Bay. I would be a lot less uncomfortable if the site were blocked after a criminal investigation was conducted and The Pirate Bay had the opportunity to speak in their own defense.
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TPB have made it very clear they have no interest in involving themselves in any actions like this.
The printing press analogy fails because they aren't printing lots of different things, some of which are illegal, almost all of the material they aid in distributing is illegal, and that is the focus of the site, hence the name.
Part of the finding in these cases has been that is that there is no significant non-infringing content. That is why 'normal' sites, where a small proportion of content was infringing, would not be addressed in the same way.