Piracy has long been blamed on the revenue decrease of various media companies including film, television, music, gaming and software. Long before torrents were invented, these companies have been plagued ever since the introduction of recordable media to the consumer.
The Pirate Bay has been and is probably still one of the most well-known and well established torrent search sites, and not long after the government began investigating them, Kickass Torrents was soon the next hot torrent site.
File-sharing sites have been changing domain names lately due to crackdowns on piracy for which these sites are known for. Kickass Torrents is currently kicking ass in the Isle of Man, a British crown dependency between Ireland and Great Britain, after changing domains yet again.