Thing is, their whole 'fuck you, we're in Sweden' attitude, complete with occasional childish insults hasn't helped much. Sweden, which does have some fine liberal attitudes, is now going to have the same draconian and reactionary laws as the rest of us. The noise and attitude generated by TPB has contributed greatly to this change within the Swedish system. It all could have been handled better. In fact, specific anti-torrent laws are going to end up in the whole of the EU pretty much as this all plays out.
Most Torrent sites, even those who arguably have no need to defend their content react very differently to the cease and desist letters. In most cases they put their hands up and tell their users to stop hosting content from 'x corporation' that complained. They also work by user invitation only, are ratio controlled, and don't allow dumb crap like creating links from torrents directly to the home pages of the actual content owners (which advertises the fact that the content is being transmitted to the actual owners of the content).
