Those charts on the Economist showing how new markets fill the empty space left by Silk Road are very similar to some charts from a recent EU study on piracy:

Those charts on the Economist showing how new markets fill the empty space left by Silk Road are very similar to some charts from a recent EU study on piracy: https://torrentfreak.com/shutting-down-pirate-sites-is-ineffective-european-commission-finds-150514/ https://torrentfreak.com/shutting-down-pirate-sites-is-ineff... Short of somehow controlling the creation of these "services" in the first place (rather than trying to block them after the fact), it doesn't look like they can be stopped as long as the demand is there.