@nicholas @feld @lispi314 The people who originally hosted such site were taken to court and charged, even though them hosting such kind of site was *not* illegal as per the countries laws.

It's other people who continue to host the site and those people face the same legal risks (it seems the companies have backed off for the past several years, as the previous activities only taught more people of the existence of the site and caused more unauthorized copying to happen, not less - but they may change their mind in the future).