Court Orders Pirate Bay Domains to Be Forfeited to the State

Well, now we have a black hole in the DNS that makes a name eternally gone from the name space. In contrast to normal confiscation, the property will neither be sold or destroyed, and when I last time asked, the state isn't going to pay any registry fees either. Rather, the general consensus seems to be that the name will just be held by the state for an indefinite time.

are any of the original pirate Bay hackers still involved?

I’d like to see these domain seizures drive innovation in decentralized DNS and TPB's founders seem like they could be motivated and capable enough to make something happen!

No, one is in jail for hacking offenses in Denmark. One wants that to happen and TPB to evolve better but is not involved with building it. Third is floating around south east asia I think.

http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/

Awesome. I shall be bookmarking this.

Good ol' domain whack-a-mole.

Are there any reasons not to make an i2p-darkweb-site with dark-web torrents?

Speed, and convenience, or lack thereof.

It's true, but some people would undoubtedly agree to use it. And I personally expect a noticeable number of them (and I would be among them).