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What's the profit motive? Even at $6 a pop the server expenses have to be recouped.

ATsch 10y ago
Benevolence, most likely.
draugadrotten 10y ago
Fictive scenario. One TV channel executive could hurt the finances of a competing TV channel by seeding the competitions shows, and by this gaining power and influence in her own career
- philtar 10y ago
  She would be the reason we read the title "Competitor TV Show most pirated TV of 2017" Way to go TV Channel exec.
- tener 10y ago
  They should actually seed their own show. Cheap marketing.
  - Certified 10y ago
    Certain FOX episodes have shown up on file sharing networks over the past years with trailers for other FOX shows preceding the actual content. You don't think networks are already promoting their tv shows directly to the file sharing demographic?
Johnie 10y ago
Pirated DVD sales in Asia and Middle East. There's a vast underground economy to get pirated content. Bootleggers get paid to make the movies available to pirated DVD manufacturers.
contergan 10y ago
Adware and other "gimmicks" bundled with the pirated software.
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  Trying to get a profit from such things was and always will be a shady noob thing to do. Release groups don't exist to make a profit, and that's why they've thrown such a wrench in the for-profit internet. It's not like the types of people who used to hack boxes to set up an FTP drop didn't have the means to purchase legitimate hosting, but a combination of legitimate hosting not allowing such content knowingly, the lack of accountability / traceability on such a system, and the pure pleasure / glory / novelty / status of exploiting your way to free hosting, then using that hosting to distribute your exploits. It was also an easy way to limit access to your cracks / serials / whatever to only your friends and other respected people in the scene. The exclusivity made it a status symbol, just like with any status symbol.
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ATsch 10y ago

Benevolence, most likely.

Fictive scenario. One TV channel executive could hurt the finances of a competing TV channel by seeding the competitions shows, and by this gaining power and influence in her own career

philtar 10y ago
She would be the reason we read the title "Competitor TV Show most pirated TV of 2017" Way to go TV Channel exec.
tener 10y ago
They should actually seed their own show. Cheap marketing.
- Certified 10y ago
  Certain FOX episodes have shown up on file sharing networks over the past years with trailers for other FOX shows preceding the actual content. You don't think networks are already promoting their tv shows directly to the file sharing demographic?

Johnie 10y ago

Pirated DVD sales in Asia and Middle East. There's a vast underground economy to get pirated content. Bootleggers get paid to make the movies available to pirated DVD manufacturers.

contergan 10y ago

Adware and other "gimmicks" bundled with the pirated software.

seanp2k2 10y ago
Trying to get a profit from such things was and always will be a shady noob thing to do. Release groups don't exist to make a profit, and that's why they've thrown such a wrench in the for-profit internet. It's not like the types of people who used to hack boxes to set up an FTP drop didn't have the means to purchase legitimate hosting, but a combination of legitimate hosting not allowing such content knowingly, the lack of accountability / traceability on such a system, and the pure pleasure / glory / novelty / status of exploiting your way to free hosting, then using that hosting to distribute your exploits. It was also an easy way to limit access to your cracks / serials / whatever to only your friends and other respected people in the scene. The exclusivity made it a status symbol, just like with any status symbol.

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