Gideon, nice collection of links. I found all of those already. All of those show that he is "taking them on" but none of them point to a canadian court ruling that makes it all legal. All is says is that he is fighting.
In fact, the operators of piratebay are apparently very upset at the ISOhunt guys for trying to filter and remove copyrighted material:
http://www.marketingvox.com/archives...spy-filtering/
Seems like even the fucking thieves can't agree with each other.
All of your presumptions in all of this discussion is "the user needs to be free to do anything until someone takes them to court". The real world doesn't work that way. Your basic presumption is backwards. In the real world, if you don't have the license or the specific granted right to use something, you can't use it and you can't just randomly give away copies without permission. It's just the way the real world works. So all of your arguments are based on a basic, fucked up assumption. The only thing I can figure is you are surely under 25 years of age and you have never produced anything in your life worth stealing. When you cross that line (maybe just before you retire) you will come to realize that copyrights and use rights management exists for very good reasons.
If you don't like the price of something, if you don't like what the software costs, if you don't like how expensive it is to buy a DVD - then do it yourself. Write your own software, make your own movie... and then after you have spent a year of your time and effort on your project, give it away for free to everyone.
Jace: P2P / Bittorrent actually is a very poor distribution channel, mostly because of the time it takes end users to get the product. The only advantage right now through these networks is the exposure levels, basically free advertising for software and such because so many people go to these sites every day. The same level of exposure on a drudge or a CNN would cost you tens of thousands of dollars. But if you did it that way and put your product on a server where it could be downloaded instantly without waiting hours for a few slow peers to trickle the data to you, it would likely satisfy your customers more.
Further, as time goes on, I expect to see more and more ISPs take the comcast route and start blocking known bandwidth leeching programs, such as joost, P2P networks, Skype, and others that are entirely dependant on using other company's bandwidth for free. I would not at all be shocked to see network routers with the ability to spot this type of dataflow and block it off.