Swedish Police Set to Take Over Pirate Bay Domains

I'd imagine they bought as many as possible several years ago, and only release 3-4 at a time.

At this point, I doubt there are very many TLD's left that don't have a TPB domain, whether bought by TPB or by a reseller.

at some point, you'd hope that the enforcers would grow the Dignity to stop responding to the Boss's un-achievable orders.

It does take time and effort to find the new one though, and if that isn't enough to dissuade continued piracy, there are plenty of impostors that always arise serving fake files and real malware that act as a follow-on deterrent.

Nothing's going to stop a teenager with no income and unlimited time from seeking out the new iteration, but when it's easy and obvious enough for my tech-illiterate and impatient mother-in-law to pirate movies, any action taken to rock the boat (domain seizures, C&Ds to subscribers, etc.) does have an impact.

In future, blockchain will do everything we do today, but less efficient and more expensive. And people will rejoice, and say "How did we ever do without this?"