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First off... it doesn't cost much at all to run a torrent site.
The files are like 14k. Any 14 year old kid with mommies CC can buy a $10 virtual hosting package and run a torrent site.
Secondly... most are ran outside US or on a box outside US. In some cases this doesn't matter. But it is a pouint as to why they never get busted. Some of you have read the legal docs at thepiratebay... and they gloat about it.
And finally... granted most these torrent sites have TONS of traffic. But have you ever just threw one of those geo thumbnail ads from AFF on a sidebar somewhere and seen the signups just start pouring in??? I bet not. I bet a good 90% of their traffic doesn't even see the ads, except maybe to jerk off to the occasional thicky thuck chick (unumm...).
AFF isn't in the right for accepting this sort of traffic, and it isn't our right to bitch about something we don't fully understand. It doesn't really effect our industry, well I take that back... it doesn't directly effect our industry.
Only a very few people actually download the site rips, mostly teens and guys with no job and no CC and shit... the real buyers are still out there. Real buyers don't know about torrents... otherwise they wouldn't be buyers. Yeah, I know we lose the occasional good guy over to the bad guys from time to time. Best thing I can say is that no matter what you find out there for free or to steal, there is still things that you can't find and WILL pay for... eventually. So we will get them back on the good side eventually.
I got a bit off topic...
FUCK AFF!!!
But they really aren't supporting this business model. You can run these sites with a 2nd graders allowance.
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