Fighting piracy is not a bad thing. As long as the whole operation is not just a smoke screen. I've seen something similar in another country where downloading a movie/song/software from a torrent site is more or less SOP. After years of "yeah, we are gonna do something about it" the government closed.... a (n online) library!
Just to clarify, there are almost no audio books there, and the only way to get hold of a book (if you are unable to read on paper <blindness or similar>) was this library. The whole operation was meant to show how the government takes care of fighting piracy. Instead it aroused a lot of negative feedback.
Which brings me back to the point - if the closed sites war major players - bravo to the U.S. organization which closed them.If not, it's just another smoke screen.
LCF over.