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I don't get what your point is - do they need a greater and nobler political purpose other than giving access to whatever people want? They are misrepresenting
by VMG 15y ago
I don't get what your point is - do they need a greater and nobler political purpose other than giving access to whatever people want?
They are misrepresenting themselves.
Further, if they really had free speech and helping suppressed peoples in mind, they would remove most of their infringing content and provide a platform that can't be attacked on grounds of copyright infringement.
- absentbird 15y agoWell Wikileaks didn't have copyright infringement claims against it and it has suffered massive blows to funding and traffic. TPB exists because people care about it. People care about it because it provides something relevant to them.
- VMG 15y agoThen why does TPB mention Syria and North Korea at all? Why not be honest? "We exist because people want Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 for free and we can help them"
- burgerbrain 15y ago"Then why does TPB mention Syria and North Korea at all?" Because they care about that.
- Andrew_Quentin 15y agoDid you wonder why people from Syria and North Korea might actually want to visit that website? I found the figure mentioned of 100 visitors from North Korea daily pretty amazing to be honest. I checked my own site stats and though there are visitors from 183 countries not one is from North Korea. Pirate bay is not just movies. You can download plenty of books from it for free, university textbooks, philosophy, whatever.