It hasn't made international news yet, but today the german police has raided the offices of several affiliate program owners and arrested 2 people
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzp...827344,00.html
What did they do?
They advertised on kino.to, a huge piracy website that was closed last year. 5 people who ran kino.to are already sentenced, some of them will do up to almost 4 years in jail.
the main owner is still waiting for his trial
and now they go after their advertisers
and btw - most content on kino.to was hosted at Megaupload
so when does it start to become dangerous for those who advertise on international piracy sites like pirate bay, pornbb or whatever?