RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay

Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by notahacker on Monday June 06, 2016 @07:58PM (#11851463)

In the legal opinion of more than a few courts it is. You don't have to be at all sympathetic to the RIAA to imagine why it might be a struggle for a legal team to persuasively argue that a site called the Pirate Bay which used to[1] boast that it had never taken a link to a torrent off the site and never would actually was encouraging the piracy that most of its visitors used it for.

[1]probably still does; I can't access it through regular web browsing due to a legal ruling...

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Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by rhizome on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:14PM (#11867149)

If boasting had a legal basis for the courts to respect, a lot of rappers would be in trouble over the past decades.

I get it: you think sentiment should be conclusive, and in many cases you could say that it is in practice, but it's hard if not impossible to make a case against a disfavorable entity solely on that basis.

And the RIAA has certainly disparaged defendants in many if not all cases. Hard to say how much effect it really has, though.

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