It would be interesting to know which torrent aggregators saw a surge in traffic once TPB was down and what kinds of traffic patterns emerged from that shift. It’s also possible that the takedown had greater impacts on other types of media or distribution patterns that weren’t necessarily apparent within the greater search data.
Another alternative is that the shutdown will have long-term impacts on piracy of new material, but not impact current distributions as much.
Since the old Pirate Bay trackers and torrent files are still mirrored in other locations, those files are still available. If you were seeding Game of Thrones Seasons 1-4 before TPB went down, you can still seed those files, which might explain why seeding rates haven’t changed. It may take somewhat longer for new files entering the network to come up to speed, however, or for new RS3 Gold
to be shared as widely as the old was.