IMHO, the Pirate Bay has already served the primary purpose for which it was created - spreading the word. Whether or not TPB continues to exist in the future,

IMHO, the Pirate Bay has already served the primary purpose for which it was created - spreading the word. Whether or not TPB continues to exist in the future, whether it is forced to recede into the deep web with a .onion address, it has already ensured that searches with a ".torrent" clause added, will yield results. Piracy and torrenting sites have now accrued a hydra-esque proportion - if you stifle one, two more will almost certainly appear to take its place. Personally, I'd like to see other piracy sites step up and create some more of these 'moles' for the whack-a-mole game that is being played with their domains - for fun and science, if not for anything else. Rather than try and play whack-a-mole to plug what are essentially inconsequential leaks, why not try and give the market what it wants? IMHO, the market wants content, the market wants it at a reasonable price and the market wants it now. Why not find a way to deliver it to them? I get the feeling that the millions being spent in frivolous cease-and-desist letters and inconsquential lawsuits will help accelerate finding a solution that can make both parties happy?