Re: Bitbet.us down. Permanently?

MP is teaching you a lesson. Learn it and move on.

So from now on, online shopping is history. You can not trust anyone.
In fact you can do nothing anymore in this world. Who can you trust? No one. Even judges, governments. Especially not the latter.

No. The site, if gone for good, committed a crime.
If more people join maybe a class action suite is possible. Especially in this case where the site existed for nearly 10 years.

We are not gone for good, nor did we commit a crime.
We were down for too long indeed, but we believe you are jumping to conclusions too fast.

You're confused about what the lesson here is. The lesson is to do your due diligence before sending BTC not after. Then as long as bitcoin network still works you can continue to transact without anyone giving you permission.