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A funny thing happens when you're convicted of many counts of copyright violations by running a torrent site and your appeals and attempts to throw out the verdict fail. You have to come to terms with the fact that you really shouldn't be doing that naughty thing anymore.

The owners of The Pirate Bay have sold their enterprise off and the resulting entity will be using outside trackers instead of its own and trying to go letit like Napster did.

Could this be the straw that breaks the back of illegal bittorrent file sharing? Probably not entirely, but losing a hub like The Pirate Bay could severely dent the transfer of illegal content. Bittorrent as a file tranfser mechanism is far too useful to disappear, however, so I'll be able to get my software upgrades just fine going forward.

Seen on BroadbandReports.

See also:
Music Piracy has no Safe Harbor
The Pirate Bay Defiantly Breaks Copyright Law