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by jamii 5158 days ago
In the light of recent UK news, I suspect someone could make good money by selling a user-friendly browser plugin that proxies connections to blocked sites like the pirate bay. Of course, you probably don't want to be living in the UK whilst doing that.
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That could be exceptionally risky as the mechanism used to block access to The Pirate Bay is the same used to block sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation as child porn.

Even if it's not your intent, the last thing anyone needs is to be branded a pedophile-enabler.

While torrenting seems to have become considered ethically grey-area in the common internet's view, profiting from copyright infringement is definitely legally very bad. Not a good idea.