The Pirate Bay - the most efficient public library

Reading room of the New York Public Library

Rights holders are called “piracy” if an individual or organization buys a copy of the work and puts it out free for millions of people. It is assumed that the author loses money because of each "free" user. There is one organization that has acquired more than 50 million pieces of work - and laid out each of them for free for approximately 20 million people, which should be recognized as the biggest damage for the authors. This organization is called the New York Public Library.

Activist of the New York Pirate Party Zachary Adam Green published a comparison of the largest library in the world with the site The Pirate Bay . Between them you can find a lot in common. Surprisingly, copyright holders do not direct their efforts against public libraries, including the New York Library. At the same time, they consider The Pirate Bay to be almost a source of hell and have spent a lot of effort and resources to close this site as the largest hotbed of piracy.

Such an illogical assessment of projects seems strange, because torrent trackers and libraries perform similar educational functions, spreading knowledge among a wide audience.
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Compared to the New York Public Library, the Pirate Bay has far fewer author works published: only a few million . But the number of users here is an order of magnitude greater than in the library. In other words, torrent trackers work much more efficiently than libraries. These are the most effective libraries in the history of mankind! It would seem that you only need to encourage such an achievement, if you really want to improve the intellectual level and education of the population.

But it looks as if copyright holders are struggling with The Pirate Bay precisely because of the high efficiency of information dissemination. Conversely, public libraries do not cause them claims precisely because of the low efficiency of their work.