Going after the ISP?! What a load of crap, TPB will probably just get its bandwidth from somewhere else so it will be back.

Too bad. I liked that site.

I wonder if piracy on the high seas means they just make a copy of the ship?

ISOHunt is a good place

it was too porno sponsored for my liking.....

Oh god, I wish...  Obama's handling of that situation is the one plus mark on that laundry list of marxist negatives.  It was a cold day in hell when they got the go ahead to knock those fuckers off.

I have, unfortunately for the respective industries, given them quite a bit of business directly because of piracy.  I've never jumped into a television show late for instance, it's flat not going to happen.  If I don't watch it from the start, I never will.  I've pirated numerous shows that were suggested to me in order to see those first shows, earning the producers a new legitimate viewer.

The offending parties do exist, but they'll lose a lot of business if they finally shut the sources down.

I had to use a crack for the Guild II just to install a patch to a game I actually own. Guess how I found out that the patch worked for the pirated version but not mine, from people who pirated it and thought it was pretty funny that a legal version wasn't getting any support. Fortunately, I still buy my games, but JoWood and their half-ass translated games is not getting my money until their titles hit the bargain bins from now on.

They're already back. They've got hosting elsewhere and are sending the people who shut them down congratulatory T-shirts.

One of these days you wont completely ignore any and all context of someone you irrationally disagree with.  I'm guessing that will be some time after the second coming.

Which is why I support calling them "economic terrorists" or something and congratulating them with a 500 pound smart bomb through the office window. Because any country hosting them would be state sponsors of the aforementioned "economic terrorism".

Yeah, that suggestion is bullshit. But they've effectively forfeited any legal rights they may have started with. I actually would support a few abductions in the night with the miscreants inexplicably appearing in a US federal court, where they can legally be charged. (They could be too, the courts don't care how someone is delivered, as long as the police or court officials didn't do anything illegal.)

And for supreme irony, this song came on while I was typing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg

(And yes, that is a legal video on Youtube, check out who posted it)

The ultimate trick would be to deregister any ISP that hosted them and ban them from the business.

Eventually the ISPs would see it was a hiding to nothing and no-one would host the site.

You, in the crusade against piracy, would have me watch fewer shows legally.

If I am not, and never will be a customer, which was the case for several television shows, including Heroes, TSC, Chuck, Fringe, and Warehouse 13, they can only gain by my illegally obtaining a copy of a previously aired show to see if I want to watch the series.

I have not, and never will become a viewer of something I've not seen from the start.  I pirated at least one previously aired show from everything I've mentioned with the exception of Warehouse 13.  I'll start a torrent of episode 2 in a few minutes assuming I can find it.  I caught a re-run if the premier last night and liked it well enough to catch up on Hulu, which has 3 and up currently.  I've legally watched every successive episode from those other series.  I'm even collecting Chuck on DVD, which is a first, and possibly a last.

It works like this, I ignore the commercials for some lame ass looking television show, and a month later some other dumbass with a low threshold for commercials says "Hey man, are you watching show X?  It's actually good!"  First I look for a legal means to verify that, then I look for an illegal means if I can work up the motivation to do it.

Short of time travel, your commentary doesn't fit.  I can't go back and watch episode 2 of Warehouse 13 when it aired on that unmentionably stupid station who's name I hate thinking about.  When I "steal" it, if I can work up the motivation off this reminder(torrents and satellite internet just do not mix...), that is the only way I will end up watching further episodes on the first airing, when they make the most of it.

If Sci-fi's(I refuse to use that retarded fuck spelling) site will actually work, they supposedly have it...  No torrent for me.  Which is good, I've already surpassed my tolerance for the internet by using their shitty, flash bloated site.

Ooh, it loads,  Now see that?  I'd never have bothered to go look for the name of the episode if I weren't intending to hunt down a torrent.  Another legal view directly attributable to the existence of all those copyright infringers is taking place as soon as I hit the reply button.

Well then that comes under the heading of 'tough shit, lad'.  If you didn't get to see it from the beginning then more fool you.

With the advent of DVD players, etc it is now quite simple to PURCHASE the show/s you missed...and ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE to the coffers of the artists/producers/etc that made whatever show so enticing you want to pirate it.

These poor bastards rely on the commercial success of their 'product' or 'art'....and if it is NOT a legitimate source then it is HURTING them, no matter what 'spin' you put on motive and morality.

I quite enjoy kicking the arses of self-confessed software pirates off of Stardock's sites...as there is a zero tolerance for the act.

It is ONLY the abuser who attempts to legitimize his crime......the 'victim' always sees it for what it is.