The Pirate Bay, SciHub.

The Internet interprets censorship (legal, moral, or otherwise) as damage, and routes around it.

No, that isn't how routing works on the internet. John was talking about Usenet. Usenet's routing does work that way.

That's how users work on the Internet.

and anyway, I heard Usenet is dead ;]

News at 11.

The actual piracy also existed, until it wasnt

It still does

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_21st_century