The comparison to taxes is instructive. But works against TPB. With taxes, on the other hand, there is, as you say, conclusive evidence that companies bend ove

The comparison to taxes is instructive. But works against TPB. With taxes, on the other hand, there is, as you say, conclusive evidence that companies bend over backwards to avoid (e.g.) U.S. taxes. This is because those taxes are burdensome to very many (probably all) businesses. Most businesses with the resources to do so will therefore go to great lengths to avoid those taxes. The evidence of companies' efforts to avoid DMCA obligations, on the other hand, is tellingly different. Unlike taxes, most companies do not go to great lengths to avoid DMCA obligations. This includes foreign companies with large user bases, and sites that facilitate the sharing of media such as YouTube, Flickr, Tumbly, Vimeo, etc. But TPB does. This tells you that DMCA is more of a burden on TPB than on most companies. I wonder why that might be... I genuinely cannot believe we are still debating whether a primary purpose of The Pirate Bay is to facilitate piracy. Of course it is.