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But even if Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub will be down. We will still have mininova, torrentskickass, demonoid, and lots of others.

You could say that the trackers have become quite distributed so to speak.

From the news page of the site in question:

In light of what has recently taken place, we are going to be making some major changes. We are first going to be migrating to and creating a new forum for all the users. The tracker will keep running but we will make some changes. We will disable the ability to integrate torrent information in the forum. However, we will also enable RSS accessibility. There will be other major changes - possibly even moving to a new tracker system. The system we have now is very functional but I'm certain you all can see some deliquencies which not only reside in our tracker but in just about any other tracker on the Internet. We have been working on most of these changes already but have decided to implement them sooner than anticipated.

Huuuuh? That's like saying "because it is snowing today, I will not wash my socks, but I will turn up the volume on the stereo". Am I missing something here?

I also love the general tone of "we're being good guys and complying with the developer's wishes!" What a bunch of shit- these people distribute pirated software, hello!

I know all my favorite buttorrent trackers are going under ground. This for example...

I'm on my second iBook since my switch from windows, and while I love them, I'm also on my *fourth* logic board.

Generally the backlight issue is solved by repairing the connector between the screen and the board -- a lot of times, the opening and closing of the lid kind of makes the wires bend back and forth, if you're unlucky, and like a piece of plastic they can snap or grow weak. Pulling it apart yourself is ... difficult. I've done it a few times, and I don't recommend it. You can probably find the actual apple repair manuals on some sites (*cough*) if you want to do that yourself.

However:

I'd say a higher percentage of the time *any* problem you have on an iBook, particularly the recent ones, is due to logic board failure. The problem is that *everything* is on the logic board, and if one thing goes wrong (IE, the modem shorts out, or a chip on one side of the board gets too hot, etc) the whole thing can have a cascade failure. I've had discussions about this with trained apple repair men, and they've all hated the iBooks because of this issue (which, incidentally, is shared by the Powerbook 12", but those machines fail at a lower rate due to higher quality parts).

So despite whatever you end up doing to fix your machine, you may still need to replace the logic board anyways. If you replace the connector between screen and board and your backlight doesn't come back on, I'd recommend you looking into the logic board replacement, as having one thing go bad on it can lead your machine down a dark path.

Just for amusement factor, I went and looked around for a w4r3z3d copy of 10.3 -- and no one will offer it up.

Uh...you're not looking very hard.

http://mac.torrentskickass.com/

No-where.