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February 11, 2008 at 8:21 PM

Just watched this BS, horribly biased 'news report' about the Pirate Bay.

Just watched this BS, horribly biased 'news report' about the Pirate Bay.



This is the most biased story about file sharing I have ever seen.

It ignores the cost for hosting, servers, legal costs, offices, etc.
I could see that easily being in the millions.
The amount of bandwidth costs just for hosting the .torrent files has to be a big chunk.
I guess it is a bit naive to think TPM not making any money.
I wonder what the taxes for the members looks like.
This 'story' likes to detail the offshore accounts and such, but there where just a way to insure that if the members got in trouble, the site would still be going.
All the real money made from pirated content is physical DVD+Rs with copies of movies on them.
These are usually what gets uploaded to TPB. Most leaks are from the industries themselves through PR, reviews etc.
If the corporations really wanted to protect against piracy they would police themselves first, but it is far easier to blame college students.