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Legitimate question: Cash cow for whom? With everyone in jail, who gets the money? Did they take salaries before? Where is this money stored? (I imagine freezin

Legitimate question: Cash cow for whom? With everyone in jail, who gets the money? Did they take salaries before? Where is this money stored? (I imagine freezing assets is easier than taking down a website; with money you have to play within the system)

Alupis 12y ago
Almost all the money went towards purchasing equipment and legal fees. I don't think anyone in particular (except maybe the lawyers) got rich off the site.
- cLeEOGPw 12y ago
  Keep believing the sob stories. One of the most frequently visited websites is "barely paying for the servers", yeah right. Wish Wikileaks would publish real numbers and profit they make.
  - soperj 12y ago
    It's not like they needed an exorbitant amount of servers either, they host magnet links.
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- ajross 12y ago
  To be fair, I don't think anyone has any idea where that money is going (though maybe someone has an estimate for how much money is involved). Statements from pseudonymous site operators can't reasonably be trusted. If they were getting rich off of a site of questionable legality, they certainly wouldn't be advertising that fact.
cantbecool 12y ago
They handed it over to Sweden's Pirate Party allegedly. I forget the exact article, but it was over at TorrentFreak: http://torrentfreak.com http://torrentfreak.com
shliachtx 12y ago
They were bought out some time ago. It's current owners are an anonymous shell corporation.[1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-steams-ahead-but-whos-doing-the-selling/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-s...
experimental- 12y ago
I don't think any of the founding members (some, or all of which have served time in jail) are involved in running the site (or have been in years) – at least not officially.

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Legitimate question: Cash cow for whom? With everyone in jail, who gets the money? Did they take salaries before? Where is this money stored? (I imagine freezin

by gkoberger 12y ago

Alupis 12y ago
Almost all the money went towards purchasing equipment and legal fees. I don't think anyone in particular (except maybe the lawyers) got rich off the site.
- cLeEOGPw 12y ago
  Keep believing the sob stories. One of the most frequently visited websites is "barely paying for the servers", yeah right. Wish Wikileaks would publish real numbers and profit they make.
  - soperj 12y ago
    It's not like they needed an exorbitant amount of servers either, they host magnet links.
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- ajross 12y ago
  To be fair, I don't think anyone has any idea where that money is going (though maybe someone has an estimate for how much money is involved). Statements from pseudonymous site operators can't reasonably be trusted. If they were getting rich off of a site of questionable legality, they certainly wouldn't be advertising that fact.
cantbecool 12y ago
They handed it over to Sweden's Pirate Party allegedly. I forget the exact article, but it was over at TorrentFreak: http://torrentfreak.com http://torrentfreak.com
shliachtx 12y ago
They were bought out some time ago. It's current owners are an anonymous shell corporation.[1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-steams-ahead-but-whos-doing-the-selling/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-s...
experimental- 12y ago
I don't think any of the founding members (some, or all of which have served time in jail) are involved in running the site (or have been in years) – at least not officially.