[iopq]

You could take down the pirate bay legally because most of its use as a search engine is for illegal content.

Of course you would also have to take down torrent client repository because most people torrent illegal content. We know that most people who DOWNLOAD videos get copyrighted material because free to watch videos are usually available to stream.

Technically you could then take down Media Player Classic repository. Of course it just facilitates watching torrents and bootlegged DVDs.

Popcorn time is literally bittorrent + media player + search engine. It's just a convenient package. And as we've shown all of those things are illegal.

Do you see how slippery the slope is?

[justizin]

the pirate bay has been taken down several times. ;)

[angersock]

And yet it keeps coming back!

Perhaps there is a reason for this?

[res0nat0r]

Because people really like being able to download movies, music and games without paying for them?

[PM_Tech]

It's not a slippery slope at all. It's quite clear cut.

If a shop was distributing fenced goods or human traffic we wouldn't allow it to remain in business because they also distribute free and legitimate groceries.

Do you see how slippery the slope is? You have left from the tiny tiny tiny niche use of file transfer for free content to the massive industrious downloading of intellectual property.

As long as you are still being paid your salary though...easy to have a faux-morally superior position when it is not your efforts being ripped off.

[iopq]

You seem to miss that this project is based on three legal programs: a search engine, a torrent client and a media player. What next, ban search engines from displaying illegal content?