Controversial ruling set a few hours ago: Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site. BPI’s chief executive Geoff Taylor said: “The High Court has confirmed that The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale. “Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works without paying a penny to the people who created them. “This is wrong - musicians, sound engineers and video editors deserve to be paid for their work just like everyone else.” Even though it’s a step in the right direction, someone could use a proxy to circumvent this, and use Pirate Bay anyway. To someone inexperienced with tech-speak, i’m sure someone could google ‘unblock Pirate Bay’ and they’d be lead to a guide to achieve this. If there was some way to fine the site and give that back to the artists, filmmakers etc, great, but it seems to be a long, complicated road until something like that is achievable.

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