People who use the sites that you mentioned are pretty dumb anyway. It’s incredibly easy to find out who’s stealing what. 1 Find a popular torrent that has lots of activity 2 download the torrent 3 open the torrent in a client 4 find the place where you’re connecting to peers in the client 5 copy their IP adress 6 enter it into google and Vwallah! You know exactly where the said thief lives.

Yes, Piracy can be a good thing. What’s bad is that for every “pirate” there are ten others who share/distribute their music onto other people’s computers/mp3 players.

The only solution i can think of that wouldn’t hurt everything too much would be to close down all public trackers (like the ones you’ve mentioned) there are plenty of private trackers and the people who are members in the private trackers would be able to help/publicize a certain band/movie around just as much as if it were on a public tracker, while convincing the people who use public trackers to buy the album/movie. There is no easy solution you’re right.