Imo piracy (and theft in general) isn't the problem, it's a symptom of the much larger problems of low wages, price gouging, affordability issues, overcomplication of services and just the general scumminess of most of the companies producing film and TV shows. But of course nobody is going after those issues, are they?
Also, the URLs of the sites banned are included in the article in a nice, well formatted table. And in completely unrelated discussion, if anybody is looking for a good VPN, I've heard good things about windscribe