Sven Olaf Kamphuis runs CB3ROB, the German ISP that helps host The Pirate Bay and has just been hit with an injunction by a Hamburg court. Unless CB3ROB stops hosting the site, it faces massive financial penalties, and Kamphuis even risks jail time.

The Motion Picture Association is already issuing press releases about the news, but Kamphuis tells Ars that he hasn't even been notified about the injunction—and he says "it's questionable if they even obtained it legally" without having a full court hearing.

Regardless of the injunction's legality, Kamphuis' views on it remain the same: it's ridiculous.

"The Pirate Bay is a search engine for the BitTorrent protocol," he tells Ars, "and therefore fully legit, and if its users don't have a distribution license for any content that would require such, guess who's to blame for not selling it to them in the first place, but preferring old distribution channels instead, which pollute the environment and constitute unfair competition."

Big media companies like Disney, which is run by "clueless idiots," might be able to make more money by distributing encrypted content through sites like The Pirate Bay, Kamphuis believes.

By going after a hosting service, Kamphuis also argues that Hollywood is shooting itself in the foot. "They may be unaware of this, but the provider protection, which requires carriers to relay traffic from and to any connected party, is the only thing that keeps Disney and Paramount on the Internet in the first place.

"We do most certainly know how to deal with hostile entities. Undermining the provider immunity, therefore, may not be the best choice of their management, as nobody in the internet industry actually still likes them. (Goodbye, Disney investor portal.)"

His solution to the whole problem is for Europeans to start voting for the various national Pirate Parties, in order to "help put those dinosaurs out of their misery, and stop them from harassing all kinds of new business models and the general population because of their 'all important movies,' which nobody asked them to make in the first place."