This is good news. Now start fining a few of the 180,000.
I think it sucks that OiNK is down, but I’m sure that five more new torrent sites will crop up to take it’s place.
Instead of worrying about the 180,000 people sharing music I would find out who leaks the albums in the first place. Out of that number probably 179,900+ have no way to access the albums they only share them once they are leaked. The leakers have to be intimately involved in production, distribution or the media who have access to advance copies. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if some of the artists themselves had a hand in it to generate some buzz.
While I admit that piracy does do damage to the industry I take their loss figures with a huge container of salt. When they say that they lose 30 gazillion dollars a year to piracy they assume that the people downloading the music/movies/software/whatever would have actually bought the stuff had they not downloaded it for free. I say no way, 99.9% of the people would have just skipped it. If you could wave a magic wand and make all the sites disappear tomorrow I highly doubt you would see a sudden jump in sales to compensate for the loss of downloading sites. Just my opinion, take it for what it’s worth.