Comment Re:Hollywood overlords (Score 1) 356
I somehow suspect your reasoning was more about that the Pirate bay was made for piracy.
It's a factor. The clue is in the name. But it's not only that. You can use Google to find torrents just as easily. The difference is, if you tell Google about it, they'll remove the link. If you told The Pirate Bay about it they'd send a smug response insisting that it's legal in Sweden. They did nothing to try and encourage legitimate torrents, or discourage the illegal ones. LegalTorrents.info seems to manage.
It's hard for me to believe that they had any intention to provide anything except a site for illegal material. I'd actually think less of them if they did. I can respect opposition to current IP laws. If they didn't have an anti-copyright agenda, then we're assuming that they're simply stupid.