But within months, Newzbin's source code began circulating on the Internet, and anonymous parties with servers in Sweden relaunched the service at the same doma

But within months, Newzbin's source code began circulating on the Internet, and anonymous parties with servers in Sweden relaunched the service at the same domain. This colors the event somewhat oddly. To be clear, once the service was defeated in court in reopened being run by people unknown who had a starkly similar administration style, the website operated under all of its old domain names, all of the software was the same, the entire multi-year database was the same, all user accounts existed and existing passwords worked, and existing credit balances (you paid a certain amount per month) existed and were honored by the new admins. So, uh, yeah. While it doesn't excuse the behavior of trying to get it blocked like CP, it does somewhat explain it. You can't thumb your nose so completely at the process and not expect to piss people off to the point that they'll continue hunting you.