> The Pirate Bay was always set up to try to infringe copyright

You're missing the point that TPB is a global thing. Sure, what they're doing is illegal in America, and an American would be in big trouble and the site would have been shut down long ago. That's great. Good for America.

TPB represents the rest of the world standing up and saying "You know what America, stop coming over to our countries and telling us what to do. We're sick of it."

Before TPB, every foreign site would give up and co-operate at the tiniest threat from the American legal system and law enforcement. For years TPB was the only site/group with the guts to stand up and say "no thanks" when threatened.

For those of us outside America, that really means something.

I honestly think sites like wikileaks, etc. would not exist without the guts and determination shown by TPB