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The Pirate Bay Making $9 Million Per Year
- daniel-cussen 19y ago9 million per year...with a possibility of going to Swedish jail. I bet those are mighty fine jails, but I'm still not sure that's a gamble I would make.
- palish 19y agoDo the Swedish have.. I'm not sure what it's called.. "You can't make something into a law and then convict everyone who used to be doing that" provisions?
- patrickg-zill 19y agoI believe it is called "ex post facto".
- palish 19y agoYes! Do they have ex post facto laws?
- uuilly 19y agograndfather clauses?
- mynameishere 19y agosold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of EUR60,000 per month Let's see: We could advertise on google and target people specifically searching for a product, and pay as little as 10 cents per click, or... We could advertise on a criminal website marketed towards people who hate spending money for products and pay 60K Euros a month. Hmm, think, think...
- omouse 19y ago> people who hate spending money for products Correction: people who hate spending money for shitty products. Or they hate paying an inflated price. Piracy is competition and should be treated as such.
- mynameishere 19y agopeople who hate spending money for shitty products Uh, no. Unless you consider 95 percent (or whatever) of all the movies and music and software ever made as consistently "shitty". Or they hate paying an inflated price. Look up "beethoven symphonies" on piratebay, and you'll see plenty of people seeding and leeching. Then look up the same on amazon, and you'll see that all 9 are available together as low as 20 dollars. If 20 dollars is an "inflated price" for that product, well, then there's no point in trying... Piracy is competition and should be treated as such Compete with zero? Sigh. Blah-dee, blah-dee, blah.
- staunch 19y agoAl Capone is shouting from his grave at these guys.
- rms 19y agoGood for them.
- palish 19y agoWhy?
- rms 19y agoThere is always an economic incentive for violating the law. It takes a certain amount of bravery or lack of risk aversion to skirt the edge of legality. Someone has to push the political agenda of the Pirate Party and the more money they have, the more they can change the world. This artificial scarcity of media doesn't make any sense. Why should something that I can get for free cost money?
- dfens 19y ago"Why should something that I can get for free cost money?" Are you for real?
- rms 19y agoOil is something that is truly scarce... there is only so much oil to go around. Same with food and water. Our economy is based on the scarcity of energy. An MP3 only has artificial scarcity. The energy it costs to copy an MP3 is infinitesimal. The point of the artificial scarcity is to allow the artist to make money by selling his information. In an economy with no scarcity, this doesn't work. The artist needs to make money by selling something that is scarce, like a live performance.
- gustaf 19y agoIf that's true it would be awesome, unfortunately it's not.