Dear Tony
The internet is global. There are millions of pages out there. The way that people find things is by using sites that index those pages, e.g. Google, Bing, etc and this includes specialist indexers like Pirate Bay. It is just a search engine, it does not host or download copyright material. It is no different from a site that indexes, for example, only academic papers.
So I am afraid I consider it very wrong that Pirate Bay has been found guilty of inducing the downloading of protected works. Google does exactly the same. Not only, but that it has been found guilty in a jurisdiction outside its home location.
The judgement is also frightening, that the networks which carry our internet signals (ISPs) should intercept them and block those that certain industries or governments fined objectionable.
Copyright infringement is simply by the two people: one who provides the material and the person who downloads it, the channel of communication cannot be guilty. Nor any indexing site that helps us navigate the internet.
I hope you will come to see the problem in this light and press for our laws on copyright be updated for the internet age.
Regards
Antony Watts
NOTE: its now 14-5-12 and he has NOT replied...
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