"they are gradually getting rid of the easiest form of piracy" See, I'm not convinced they are. Do you really think someone who's raking in "as much as $300,00

"they are gradually getting rid of the easiest form of piracy" See, I'm not convinced they are. Do you really think someone who's raking in "as much as $300,000 per month through Paypal alone" is going to give up just because one site got shut down? The operator need only move to a new domain, a new bank account, maybe drop in some new clip-art and tweak the CSS, and they're off again. Not much effort, considering the pay-out involved. I wouldn't be surprised if many file-locker operators consider the occasional site getting shut down to be an expected cost of doing business. They might even run multiple sites at once to smooth out these bumps in their income stream. So, sure, this group's marginally increasing the cost of doing business as a file locker, and so slightly reducing the size of the industry. But it's not going have a meaningful impact -- at least until people start going to prison for wilfully hosting illegal material. Maybe not even then. Compare prohibition.