a whole lot more

The effect on me of the raid and shutdown of Pirate Bay has been that I have learned a whole lot more about how to download torrents and, especially, how to find magnets without the aid of a piracy search engine; and how to do all that far more safely. The MPAA and the RIAA have done more to promote piracy than they’ve done to inhibit it. Every time they make some dramatic move, piracy increases by leaps and bounds. I seriously doubt there’s any way to stop it now short of shutting down the internet. It seem inevitable that democracy (of a libertarian sort), though it may not prevail within the system as a whole, will become the order of the day on the internet—or at the very least on the Dark Net.