We knew it, you knew it, everyone knew it: as soon as news of the sale broke, it was obvious that the Pirate Bay as we knew it would be no more.

And after a convoluted game of cat and mouse, in which big studios continued to sue the now nearly defunct site, while the new owner-to-be tried to secure the funding to actually purchase it, the story is now at its end: The Pirate Bay has been shut down by its ISP.

And as much as this piece of information would have caused a huge upset a couple of months ago, now it is likely to go fairly quietly, as most users have already moved on to other BitTorrent trackers.

Internet dinosaurs, such as myself, have seen this before: Napster, OiNK, Suprnova. Essentially, nothing has really changed as far as piracy goes; when it comes to the sense of actual defiance to certain established ideas of how copyright laws and regulations should be upheld, unfortunately, The Pirate Bay will be sorely missed.