Sorry, #1Peasant, I'm all for shutdown unless the sites change to benefit those that earned it.

I guess I just feel that the "ease of digital copying" and the shift in public mindset about ownership of ideas enabled by the internet is another way of saying it makes it easier and less guilt-triggering to steal other people's writing, music, etc. since we don't have any direct contact with them and we're sitting safely at our home computer, not stuffing CD's into our pockets in the music shop. But it amounts to the same thing.