"Getting rid of physical books because we now have databases is like getting rid of sunshine because of the existence of vitamin-D pills and cod liver oil." --love that.
a plea for keeping physical libraries available. (but it is key to remember that all living library collections include materials that come and also go)
so far i haven't seen canada get effected by this yet but i hope by the time they do i have tribler up and running again
in the meanwhile do they just go for bittorrent attacks or is hosting the torrent / magnet file enough? ie you can still be useful by just mirroring all the magnet links