Susuto

Just for the record, Priate Bay is badly, badly misinterpreting the law. While the Infosoc Directive does “allow copying in routers”, that is based on the presumption that the sender has a legal right to send it in the first place. In other words, the clause in question acknowledged that technically, any IP transmission can be construed as a series of copies but went on to declare that this process should not be considered copying for the purposes of copyright law. All well and good and completely reasonable. However, IF the data being transmitted is something that is *already* an illegal copy then it is not unreasonable to accuse the ISPs of participating in a copyright infringement by facilitating the transfer.