There have been hints of the same attitude this week in some of the furious reaction online to the news that Britain’s major broadband providers will be forced to block access to The Pirate Bay, the most popular way of finding unlicensed films and music to download for free. To be absolutely clear, I am not suggesting one iota of moral equivalence between the selfish and criminal act of drink-driving and unlawfully downloading an episode of Game of Thrones.