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What a shame. They could have asked for donations but me as an Eastern European, I get it -- usually if we get to the point of needing donations we feel ashamed
by pdimitar 3y ago
What a shame. They could have asked for donations but me as an Eastern European, I get it -- usually if we get to the point of needing donations we feel ashamed and humiliated and just close shop.
I hope somebody picks up the flag. Illegal and copyright-protected piracy aside, there were tons of royalty-free and non-copyright-enforced works of art there and it would be a big hit on humanity's culture at large for all that to be lost.
- dmos62 3y agoThey did use aggressive popup ads via click-hijacking. So they were monetizing at least to some extent. Unfortunately for them, most people torrenting probably use ad protection.
- anticrymactic 3y agoTo my knowledge, they didn't. There were a lot of imposter sites, which were indistinguishable, where you'd be told to download a VPN or similar. But the main .to site never opened any ads for me
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoIt always did for me. The first time a torrent results page opens, the clicks open a new tab with ads. You had to refresh the results page to actually click through to the torrent.
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- poisonarena 3y agothey sure did! every half a dozen clicks! immediately blocked by my adblockers but i would still dig into the dev tools to try and figure it out occasionally
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- robertoandred 3y agohahah paying to steal stuff
- thescriptkiddie 3y agomore like voluntary contributing to the maintenance of an invaluable archive project
- hoschicz 3y agoThey _really_ should give a dump of all the torrents, magnet links and seed/leech counts...
- rationalist 3y agoI offered to donate money a while back, and they refused.
- codetrotter 3y agoThere’s also a problem for pirate sites specifically that if they accept donations then this fact can be used later on in a trial, where the plaintiff party may use this as evidence that the pirate site is being run for profit, and which in turn may lead to higher fines, more jail time, etc, for the defendants.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoIf they were to receive funds via Bitcoin or Monero, is it even possible to pay for hosting with those funds directly? Or would they have to deal with shady exchanges that would invite money-laundering enforcement actions?