Topsite Loop was taken offline yesterday. Maybe it has something to do with that...
I read that article on FILEnetworks today, and you may be right - although ScT didn't shut down when TV-Land, a Pay2Leech site they depended on, was taken down by BREIN.
The reason I think this may be a "hard" joke is because the Scene would really like to see ScT die, something their staff is aware of.