content: As long as there is a need for a central server (like thepiratebay), there will always be a way to shut that central server down. In the case of thepiratebay, they were targeted in all imaginable ways, they were raided by police on several occasions, their technology was seized (one of the seized thepiratebay servers is on display in a museum in Sweden!) and their domains are constantly seized. They start a new instance, they get a new domain, the police kicks in, shuts down the server, takes the new domain and the story goes on. However, I think the people running thepiratebay will eventually get tired and stop creating new copies. Why should they continue? What did their users do to keep them going?  Is there a better way? Yes. A distributed file system of sort. At the moment, a compressed copy (perhaps 1 year old) of the entire thepiratebay is a single, 92 MB file. Uncompressed, this file is 167 MB. This file contains about 1.640.000 lines. Every line contains a hash value and file name. For example, "myfavoritebook.pdf - AHBCD343545". In order to download this pdf file, all you need to do is add copy/paste the hash value into your favorite torrent client. For comparison, Bitcoin blockchain has surpassed 8 GB! So, the simplest solution would be to create (or utilize existing) distributed file systems and host the hashes on all computers which want to be a part of the "game". Just like with bitcoin clients, this new client would simply have to download this single file and presto, you have your own thepiratebay with full searching capabilities. Now this is something that would be very hard or impossible to detect and shut down. Legal bodies would have to go after individuals because there would no longer be a central server to provide the search and presentation service. Now, if only someone would create this new client and release it into the wild... :)