C'mon guys we ALL know what that site is ALL about.
And if they provide the hardware and advertise openly about it then they are actively facilitating the crime being executed. Its got nothing to do with combating exploitation of the poor and civil freedoms being suppressed (or the freedom of the artists to keep the rewards of their music)
TPB is just a search engine, what's available through it is up to its users. One of the site's admins has made a research and found that 70%-80% out of 1000 seeds are legal stuff:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/pirate-bay-survey-says-that-80-of-our-torrents-are-legal.ars . Why TBF must be closed down then while a search engine like Google doesn't have to, even if you can find pirated stuff with it as well? Does its name ("The Pirate Bay") make it illegal?
Varthall