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Originally Posted by AlexShark
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Ok so -27% pageviews in 1 month, and -47% pageviews in 7 days.
Let's say a 33% of landings to pay pages, how many dollars is that?
PayPal?s 2011 annual revenue was $4.4 billion (of which $2.2 billion USA) from $118 billion of transactions (their commission around 5%).
But, this is not $30 billion sales less and $1.3 billion less in revenue, guys.
Ebay and other type of sales are in average bigger than file lockers (under $10 each), also lots of those landings from filelockers was people clicking the pay link but not paying really - it is like count landings to your join or ccbill/epoch pages like all it was sales.
So file lockers may account for >30% of paypal pay page traffic, but less % of revenue, let's say 3%-5% (don't take it as science!), it would still be more than a billion dollar a year sales (enough to pay hosting of dozens file lockers), and 50 million dollar revenue for PayPal ($4+ million dollar per month profits less).
So congrats to PayPal that's a lot of money they lose there just for be compliant.
To have real numbers f file sharing revenue lost, just look at this page after a year:
https://www.paypal-media.com/about
"PayPal revenues for Q1 2012 were $1.3 billion, growing 32 percent year over year."
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What it will be in Q3 and Q4 2012?