IMHO, the Pirate Bay has already served the primary purpose for which it was created - spreading the word.<p>Whether or not TPB continues to exist in the future, whether it is forced to recede into the deep web with a .onion address, it has already ensured that searches with a ".torrent" clause added, will yield results. Piracy and torrenting sites have now accrued a hydra-esque proportion - if you stifle one, two more will almost certainly appear to take its place.<p>Personally, I'd like to see other piracy sites step up and create some more of these 'moles' for the whack-a-mole game that is being played with their domains - for fun and science, if not for anything else.<p>Rather than try and play whack-a-mole to plug what are essentially inconsequential leaks, why not try and give the market what it wants? IMHO, the market wants content, the market wants it at a reasonable price and the market wants it now. Why not find a way to deliver it to them? I get the feeling that the millions being spent in frivolous cease-and-desist letters and inconsquential lawsuits will help accelerate finding a solution that can make both parties happy?