Originally Posted by
zxzero
People already tried to sue tpb, they failed because the owners of tpb don't actually own/upload the content posted on there. They claim it is a site that users can upload whatever they want to while being completely anon, what they choose to upload is entirely up to them. It is a loop hole they use to elude copyright and legal issues. Anyone can do it.
However the owners of neopets can sue the owner(s) of neopet sites if they find out the real owners but unless you are dumb/ don't pay for extra services to get your name and address taken off sites like whois, and the person(s) who upload your content to the web don't have any problems with waht you are posting (usually they don't care as long as they are making money) then there is nothing that viacom can really do. To be completely honest it would require them (viacom) to hire someone for the job (aka a white hat hacker) or pay off the hosting site to give them details, which they would never do unless the site was massive. They would only do it then to use it as a scare tactic to scare other sites into shutting down.
This has failed for other companies such as runescape shutting down one of the biggest botting companies, as if you played runescape then and botted you would know there were still others sites operating.