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Originally Posted by Loki
Taking down the X number sites won't really stop (or even put a dent in piracy)
Take torrents for example: as long as people have the .tor files on their computers and the torrent program running files will still spread no matter is the tracking sites are up or down.
and it takes nothing to toss up a new torrent tracker site.
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Torrent sites are in a way like social networks. They are "web2.0" and rely on user participation to be successful. New users have to upload new stuff or it isn't interesting. Torrent sites have to reach a "critical mass" of members before being able to offer their users anything that can be monetized by their OP. This critical mass needs time to be reached. No torrent site is an instant "hit". By constantly taking out the big players the torrent sites lose value to most users.
Imagine if facebook/google+ and myspace were banned just for example, sure it would not mean the end of social networking but social networking would take a HUGE hit. It would take time and money for a new social network to have so many members and user experience. Same goes with torrent sites you need lots of seeds to be able to quality download.
Also theres the problem of Malicious torrent site replacements. People will naturally seek new torrent sites, after the old ones are put down, but all the new "Replacements" will have lots of crappy/unedited/unmonitored content because offering decent content, even pirated, takes work and $$.
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Originally Posted by Loki
The scope is just really too big, between IRC, newgroups, deepweb, lockers, message boards, torrents, chans, password sites (org started by own own industry  ) etc etc etc
The genie is out of the bottle, can't put it back in
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Yes it is indeed out of the bottle, but we can kick the genie in the nuts hard. Taking out the major players and all their replacements in any shape or form. It is not hard to identify major sites that are exclusively dedicated to piracy.