No matter what - they are gone for now. But they where not stopped completely. Like I said before "it is a game!"...

Those countries do what they want to look good. Here in the States; we end it! Law breakers are punished and if they try again. Then they are punished even more or worse.

So now the guys that owned the site can even sell their stolen stuff to another law breaker. Thus they can get started again as another group with another name and such with more money to get what they want.

That judge did nothing but make more piracy. The guys that buy the site and start it back up again. Plus the past owners who will go do it again some place else.

I say bring them over here and allow the US to punish them. Take away everything that is not theirs to begin with and get rid of it completely. There should be extradition policies for these things. Thus those people would face charges here in the USA.

I do not agree with that stopping things by shutting them down rule. It never works! It has to be removed completely and put under lock and key or burned like trash.

I like the burning thing actually. We have this thing here about drug house's - we bust them and usually end up burning them down to the ground. It cleans up the mess they make. Too bad they don't burn the dealers with it though.

But that is my best answer... burn them down completely and be completely rid of it; softwares and anything else they used to do it with.

Burn baby Burn!      

I agree with jafo, more power to the large corporations and let those poor mofos that cant afford series, movies and art be without it. Let's use more american weapons on them so we can destroy their infrastructure and let's make COPYING totally illegal and ban everyone from getting ahold of stuff only american top dollars should be able to buy.  F*ck the rest of the world.. America F yeah!!!!

And then let's get working on that third reich while were at it.

Ignorance is bliss

Clearly does not work, your crime rate per capita is in the top 10 in the world.

(Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems)

So much in that post pisses me off, im not going to look into this thread again.

I know, and the funny thing is the dutch company that sued them sued the previous admins and claimed they should shut down the site, while they aren't even the owner of the site and can't close it down to begin with. It's gonna be an intresting case.

And henceforth, you shall be known as: austramericans

LOL....good on ya!

*doc sneaks off to phone the I.N.S. and T.S.A.: Jafo's in for a latex "Airport Special" hehehe.

I will point out that the Pirate Bay is back up already.

Exactly as what can be read in this... so i won't need to repeat again_&_again_&_again that Law is applicable or enforced in their case or anything else that deserve it.

Well, one down, several more to go. It's not like piracy is on the virge of collapse. They can't stop drug dealers, eliminate poverty or stop people from speeding, what makes you think piracy is any different? I use to pirate software before. I learned it was pointless when you wanted to enjoy the full use of the software so instead I opted to use freeware or buy the software. Today I only download TV shows and maybe movies I can't find in video stores. I have no issues downloading TV shows. Advertisers not making a buck? Oh well, not like I watch commercials anyways, I either change channels, use the restroom or if I record it I simply skip the commercials. I am not losing any sleep over it.

Piracy is theft, period.  If you pirate software, music, whatever, you are a thief.  Justify it in your own mind all you want but it doesn't change the fact that you are taking what would be income for another company or individual artist.  There will always be assorted low lifes that will take advantage of others for their own gain.  Too bad because they are just another reason for a screwed up world.

When you account for the sales from people that would never have bought your products without it, I will then accept your real losers premise.  I have yet to see a single entity even ask the question of me in a customer survey, let alone publish anything resembling evidence.  In the drop down list for "What lead you to buy this product", add piracy, see where it gets you.  I don't have a software company to use for such a purpose, so I can't get anything resembling legitimate results myself.  Until at least one of you bothers to do it, all I have to go on is myself and the people I know, and there is a really large net gain for you guys in particular.  You've even gotten sales out of die hard pirates with terabytes of media on their computers and none of it legal, just for not having copy protection on the damn disk.  Until you do, I consider you just as crazy as the guy running torrents 24/7, 365.

That's already posted...

Yup, it's back up already, with a picture of the t-shirt someone mentioned earlier in this thread. You just can't stop these sites, stop one, and two take it's place, and shutting down this one failed too.