said by cableties :

Storage venues like Megaupload, Rapidshare, etc, make their money in illegal file sharing (under the guise of Upload for free, download per fee, along with advertising/subscription model).
I don't know anyone that uses these service for anything legal.
Yet RS, MU, ... do compensate for traffic, etc. Again, I do not know anyone that makes money, but I can "guess" that if one person uploads files of a desirable adult movie, and others have accounts and download that file, you can make some change on the traffic and/or referrals.
So how do these sites make money? Traffic through ISPs to keep fat-pipe costs low? Advertising metrics? Well, for starters you can upload then share the files, earn points with all the upload traffic, convert those points into accounts, and then sell those accounts for money (paypal...). Pyramid!

said by exocet_cm :

So long thepiratebay.org

said by Matt :

You mean to tell me there is possible illegal activity surrounding with the purchase of a criminal outfit? I for one am shocked and outraged that an organization who would buy a website whose entire business model revolved around copyright infringement would even consider insider trading.

Oh, and no. Their business plan will utterly fail because the content producers won't pay them and they won't be able to pay the people bootlegging the material for them. If they have a board of directors and the board didn't approve of this, criminal charges should be filed and the culprit should be ousted.

said by Matt :

You mean to tell me there is possible illegal activity surrounding with the purchase of a criminal outfit? I for one am shocked and outraged that an organization who would buy a website whose entire business model revolved around copyright infringement would even consider insider trading.

Oh, and no. Their business plan will utterly fail because the content producers won't pay them and they won't be able to pay the people bootlegging the material for them. If they have a board of directors and the board didn't approve of this, criminal charges should be filed and the culprit should be ousted.

said by P Ness :

so i assume google is now illegal..and yahoo....and msft?
cause they all have links to the same thing piratebay did.

so what does PB really do different again?

said by P Ness :

so i assume google is now illegal..and yahoo....and msft?
cause they all have links to the same thing piratebay did.

so what does PB really do different again?

said by knightmb :

Hehe, does anyone have that domain yet?

said by Matt :

"The Pirate Bay hosts the torrents on their server and makes fun of copyright holders when asked to remove said torrents."

said by james :

And the torrents contain no property of the complainants, therefore the appropriate thing to do is tell them to go f**k themselves. Oh but according to you it's illegal to make fun of someone who tells you to do something that they have no right to tell you to do.

DMCA takedown requests are to be used to remove your own intellectual property from someone elses server, since tpb hosted none of their property it means DMCA requests have no bearing. Oh wait, there's also the matter of them not being in the USA, and thus not being obligated to respond to DMCA requests etc... You are aware that there are other countries right? and that US law doesn't apply in them any more than their laws apply to you.