Point of curiosity: the court ruling to block The Pirate Bay in this country (unprecedented as far as copyright law goes, and a testament to quite how in bed with major record labels and film studios the UK government really is) has created this weird, many-headed hydra that refuses to die. Earlier this month, there was a second block of tpb.piraten.lu; within minutes, the still-unblocked pirateproxy.net sprang into life.

Piracy is still something that keeps me curious - I think there are avenues where it promotes creative growth, and others where it damages it, and those who have firm pro- or anti- stances around it regardless of context generally don’t know what they’re talking about. But this is interesting, if only as a study of how the law is woefully equipped when it comes to dealing with the internet.