But that doesn't stop it from still terrorizing companies.
The news that The Pirate Bay is being sold hampers things, since it WAS the World's Largest BitTorrent tracker, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other options. Some of the other options are more "legal" as well, and new sites are cropping up all the time, so I wonder how much "legalizing" The Pirate Bay actually did. It's like when Torrentspy was shut down a few years ago - everyone just ended up migrating to The Pirate Bay.
For those that are truly adventurous, there are also always other alternatives. In that example, the program is even older than BitTorrent, but it's relative complexity has effectively masked it's presence. Let's not even get started on IRC.
Frankly, I fail to see how downloading through these programs is any different than going to a library, borrowing a CD (e.g. Radiohead's "The Bends") and ripping it to your computer. That's perfectly legal, and no money is really spent there, either. It seems like the issue of legality is more an issue of "scale." Since really, it all seems like a giant overreaction
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