I find this case amusing
A simple analogy to why they are not in the wrong. A library contains books. Someone finds a book on guns, explosives, chemistry or whatever. They make a bomb with this knowledge. The library gets shutdown for teaching people how to make bombs.
TPB has never shared anything illegal, it just tells computers what other computers have whatever they are looking for. If someone tells me where I can buy guns and I buy a gun is that person to blame for any illegal activity I commit with that knowledge?
I hope Sony etc lose again anyway. These big companies need a pay cut in the music industry. Too many execs getting paid too much for doing very little, remind you of another industry at all?
If we lived in a world built around common sense I’d say they were in the wrong, however if TPB lose this battle then surely we will have to follow suit with other examples?