If everyone jumps off a bridge, will you also? Same scenario, except twisted. In the end, if you jump off a tall bridge there's a pretty good chance of you losing your life. Think of it in the same way with this situation except with losing your AdSense account... since you did "jump off" that bridge. There are thousands of sites with copyright material and have AdSense... just like your site had AdSense in that period of time, the other sites are going through that period of time as well. Once review comes along when Google sends out the $$$... they'll start another thread just like this also. What does it take to save your account? Reading one page of basic rules that Google has setup called "AdSense TOS".