> The Pirate Bay exists to facilitate copying of copyrighted works without paying the license fees involved. Not entirely true. TPB exists to facilitate copyin

> The Pirate Bay exists to facilitate copying of copyrighted works without paying the license fees involved. Not entirely true. TPB exists to facilitate copying of digital content. Copyright and license fees are irrelevant; if the whole of copyright law as abilished tomorrow, TPB and the BitTorrent infrastructure would still work, exactly the same as it does now. > And they have advertising on their site, hence they are making money from this activity. The one doesn't follow from the other; for example, the avertising revenue may not cover the costs of running the site. > It's a pity that everyone calls this 'file sharing' I agree, but ont for your reasons. It isn't "file sharing" because the files aren't shared; everyone ends up with their own copy. An accurate term would be P2P file copying. > to allow people to make copies of copyright works You probably meant to say "to allow people to make unauthorised copies of copyright works"; making copies of copyright works is in itself perfectly legal; I do it all the time, as does everyone else with a computer.