Originally Posted by kane

While I feel you have some very legit points about blocking one site not having much if any impact on pirating as a whole, to say that torrents are not popular just isn't correct. According to Alexa The Pirate Bay is ranked #79 in the US and #72 globally.

That seems pretty popular to me.

There are a lot of hardcore pirates out there who will find a workaround as soon as one source is shut down. There are also people like my brother's sister in law who downloads a ton of music and movies and doesn't know shit. If they shut off the site she uses she would have to wait until someone else showed her where else to go.