Strikes me that its the thin end of the wedge. First it was Newzbin, now TPB. Not that its at all difficult to circumvent a DNS block.
Rather than blatant censorship, perhaps the BPI etc should be looking at
why people use these sites and adjusting their business models accordingly. I'm not a huge apple fan by any means but their app store and itunes models both work well.
I don't claim to have an answer by any means, but perhaps some sort of 'PC licencing' might be the way to go. Everybody pays a tv licence and can then consume as much TV content as they wish, from whatever source they wish, even though the licence only goes to Aunty Beeb. Maybe not even licence the PC, but the actual router. Of course there would be an outcry initially, but how many people pay a tv licence and then pay again for sky ??
Or, radically, just stop selling CD's and DVD's. Put everything on line and available to buy for micro payments per track. I'm sure there are a lot of other things that the 'industry' could do rather than go to court and get a blocking order that won't affect anyone that knows what a 'hosts' file is.
I could rant about this for ages actually, because it really does make my blood boil, but as I am up very early for work, I'll shut up now..........It is another nail in the coffin however, and another step nearer to yet more censorship I feel.