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Voted NO.
As any copyright holder nowadays, I'd be more than happy to see all illegal tube owners paying huge fines and then sucking Bubba's balls in jail. But realistically it isn't going to happen until most basic laws such as DMCA get amended.
Topbucks did what they could, and what they did benefitted the entire industry - not as much as we all had hoped, but it's still a big progress.
They introduced this new DFP thingy which was long overdue, yes it's pricey and it's reach is limited, but it'll grow over the time and get cheaper.
They also set (or confirmed) a good legal precedent - as TheDoc pointed our several times already, it's now PAY and then be forced to use DFP for all illegal tube owners. So it might be a good idea for the illegal tube owners to use DFP or other forms of content protection from the very beginning to show court their due diligence, to avoid having to pay huge settlements. With the progress of this tech, it'll get harder and harder to hide behind the "safe harbor" if you're not using at least DFP to stop potential infrimgents when it's already widely available and affordable.
When the DFP tech is working full throttle, and that WILL happen sooner or later, running an illegal tube + DFP will be essentially the same as running a legal tube.
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