Hence my mention about Pirate Bay. There were multiple mainstream news stories about it. Multiple of the founders were unmasked and put on trial, but the site was constructed so that it kept running. It is still running to this day, despite it no longer being the face of piracy that it was long ago.

Edit: In more recent news/sites, Anna's Archive. They have yet another lawsuit against them that isn't going to amount to anything but maybe a few more domain names going down because none of the people operating it have been able to be unmasked.