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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's clear in the court's judgement, if you read it. The reason that the blocking order was granted was that TPB was judged to have no significant use other than aiding and abetting copyright infringement. Most people would accept, I believe, that even though MR does indeed, as you rightly say, host files which would be illegal for people in certain countries to download, it also has a significant proportion of content that does not infringe.
The "significant non-infringing use" test has been the primary criterion applies to copyright infringement cases for many, many years, in both the US and UK.
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Yes, but that does not make the criminals at Mobileread non-criminals. It is like if you rob a bank and at the same time do someting good than the bank robbery is not criminal,