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Ads obviously work or TPB wouldn't fill their billions of pageviews a month with multiple units.

• sp332 14y ago
  ... usually of the crappiest, lowest-paying ads. A lot of businesses don't want to be associated with TPB or some of the content on there so sometimes they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
  • benologist 14y ago
    SurfTheChannel was rumored to make around $2000/day off just 400,000 daily visitors at its peak - TPB probably hasn't had traffic that low in years. http://torrentfreak.com/surfthechannel-owner-found-guilty-of-conspiracy-to-defraud-120627/ http://torrentfreak.com/surfthechannel-owner-found-guilty-of...
    • sp332 14y ago
      Estimates vary wildly from $100,000/year to $1.4 million/year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#Funding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#Funding That's about $270/day to $3,800/day, although some of that is private funding as well as advertising.
      • benologist 14y ago
        That $100k is from 6 years ago .. so 6 years ago their lawyers admitted the site made (at least) $270/day and today it does probably at least one order of magnitude more traffic.