If a little civil disobedience is what it takes to save public access to human knowledge, than so be it...

Yes, but if you get caught right away, you aren't maximizing your impact. It would be better to use P2P with anonymizing layers.

True for the ones that were listed there. It's unfortunate that the networks that are getting the most pub weren't built with anonymity and plausible deniability in mind.

It’s a very hard problem in this case because it’s a public service and there’s no reliable way to prevent someone from firing up a client, downloading something copyrighted, and recording where the bits came from. That limits hosting to people who live in jurisdictions without copyright enforcement or who have very deep pockets for legal defenses.