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Originally Posted by psili
I'm dumb. I don't say I know how torrent sites work, but I was just thinking about how someone pays their bandwidth bills. Doesn't one who starts a torrent site have to front a bunch of bandwidth to start disseminating content through the peers? Isn't there still a cost to maintaining the "front" of a torrent site?
There must be a cost and there must be a benefit.
I own nothing, yet I can see someone / some people pay the bills for such sites, and I'm sure much comes from hidden sponsor deals with affiliates. Rapists aside, you're usually a point of wisdom in such arguments. Please be a point of wisdom rather than trying argument-style.
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Torrents provide a means for people to trade (distribute) stolen content.
Torrents sell ad space to make money.
Companies that are not affected by the stolen content being given away for free (dating, cams, toys, adbrite - traffic brokers) buy ad space.
Torrent becomes popular from more and more people looking to get it for free, more traffic they get the more ad displayes, the more they charge for advertising.
Remove the people buying ads (traffic) from them, the site wouldn't be able to pay for itself.