Top piracy websites

Here is a list of the top-10 'piracy' websites to be taken down according to a theinquirer.net article posted in early 2012.

1. Napster: What it is a legitimate music service now, sent shockwaves through the music industry when it first surfaced in 1999 as a P2P file sharing service that was a pirating haven. Metallica and Dr. Dre were frontrunners in a large group of artists to levy legal actions against Napster and eventually the website was shut down. 
2. The Pirate Bay: Started in 2003 and was raided in 2006 by Swedish police. In 2008, the web site's operators were charged with contributing to copyright infringement and in April 2009 Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were sentenced to one year in prison and a large fine. 
   Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/15x9g)
3. Newzbin: A members only website that allows users share links to copyrighted movies, music and computer games.
4. Kazaa: Another peer-to-peer network, created by the men behind Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, that allowed users to download all types of files, not just music. 
5. MegaUpload: One of the biggest website takedowns in history. Kim Dotcom, the websites founder, was arrested on charges of money laundering, racketeering and copyright infringement. 
6. Limewire: Peer-to-peer network that started in 2010 and the idea still lives today in the form of Frostwire. 
7. Suprnova: First popular bit torrent search engine, setting the stage for ThePirateBay. 
8. TV Shack: Run by UK student Richard O'Dwyer and had links to thousands of TV shows and movies but did not directly host them. After having computers seized from him by UK and US police, he shut down the site. 
9. Ninja Video: Ninja Video claimed to protest inflated prices of films and television shows, but it also made a fair amount of money from advertising its links to uploaded video files while it was operating.Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/15x99)
10. Audiogalaxy: Ran during Napster's reign over the free-music market and hid in Napster's shadow for quite a while. Eventually shut down, the website rose again into a music streaming service.