Comment Re:Let me be the first one to ask it ... (Score 1) 1870
And your point is? It requires a rather narrow scope of vision to state that public-domain material constitutes a "substantial" amount of it's indexed torrents. The fact that there exists a non-copyrighted copy cannot justify the existence of a service if it is predominantly used for acquisition of illegally acquired materials.
Here's the Top 100 for The Pirate Bay:
- http://thepiratebay.org/top/all
I mean, it has the name THE PIRATE BAY, for god sakes. Courts and legal authorities can execute search warrants if they believe that an organization is assisting or enabling criminal acts if there is substantial indications of such - In modern courts, the name of an organization IS CONSIDERED an indication of intent (the same is true if a I opened a shop called "Bongs and Things").