Pc Pro reports that in an attempt to stop the flow of copyrighted materials, famed Torrent site, The Pirate Bay, was shutdown by Swedish courts. According to reports by McAfee, a wealth of sites sprang up to carry on the charge, and the number of sites hosting Torrents expanded by 300%.
Pc Pro writes:
…but any hope of scotching the piracy of music, software and films over the web vanished as copycat sites sprung up and the content took on a life of its own.
Just goes to show, you can’t destroy an ant hill by killing a few ants here and there.