Thank you.
I don't believe they're sufficient. I believe that when services like isoHunt are making millions of dollars in advertising, the $5,000 fine just becomes incorporated into the cost of doing business.
As to notoriety, I think it goes deeper than that. I think it goes in some quarters to a philosophical belief that piracy is okay, to the fact that they don't actually believe in the criminal codes of the countries they operate in, including Canada. It's not just, “Look at me; I'm clever. I got away with this”. You've got in some cases people who fundamentally do not believe that what they are doing is wrong and take exception to the laws of the land. I have a big problem with that.