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cdancette
It's amazing they don't get that they can't block the site by blocking the domain name, and that it will come back under a new domain each time.
mr_spothawk
at some point, you'd hope that the enforcers would grow the Dignity to stop responding to the Boss's un-achievable orders.
craftyguy
On the other hand, it's great job security for them, knowing that what they've been asked to do is temporary and they'll be needed to do it again soon.
vkou
Criminals keep doing crime, we may as well stop all police efforts.

I mean, say what you will about the morality of running a website dedicated to torrenting films and pornography, but policing will always be a game of whack-a-mole.

jstarfish
It does take time and effort to find the new one though, and if that isn't enough to dissuade continued piracy, there are plenty of impostors that always arise serving fake files and real malware that act as a follow-on deterrent.

Nothing's going to stop a teenager with no income and unlimited time from seeking out the new iteration, but when it's easy and obvious enough for my tech-illiterate and impatient mother-in-law to pirate movies, any action taken to rock the boat (domain seizures, C&Ds to subscribers, etc.) does have an impact.

Feniks
Any time my mom wants an eBook I pirate it for her. Takes me 5 minutes. Those of us who know how to computer need to help those who don't.
[dead] DaveFunkhouser
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the reason TPB switched back to thePirateBay.org last year?
534b44a
All these years and the .org domain still works fine. What makes it so hard to block it, does the Internet Society has something to do with that?
gremlinsinc
Law enforcement: Woohoo we just spent millions in tax-payer dollars and got these copyright infringing bastards' domain. That'll stop them.

30 minutes and $10 domain registration later: Pirate bay: We've migrated to our new domain, take this one and we'll buy another...

kfriede
I'd imagine they bought as many as possible several years ago, and only release 3-4 at a time.

At this point, I doubt there are very many TLD's left that don't have a TPB domain, whether bought by TPB or by a reseller.

vasco
Good ol' US institutions pressuring foreign judicial systems.
pmontra
Are they going to pay and renew those domains yearly, let them expire, sell them before expiration?
acd
In the future there will be legal file sharing paid by crypto currencies. There will be a distributed movie Netflix like app running on p2p tech like ipfs where streams are paid on the block chain.

If Hollywood resists then Chinese will debute the tech.

canoebuilder
In future, blockchain will do everything we do today, but less efficient and more expensive. And people will rejoice, and say "How did we ever do without this?"
[dead] ketsa
Evil Yankees at work.