ThePirateBays earns 3 million USD a year!
 

The Swedish police has just found evidence that ThePirateBay has a income of around 3 million USD a year.

That's some crazy money!!


If you can read Swedish here is my source.
http://www.e24.se/branscher/itteleko...kel_225199.e24

Nice, they'll still make a profit

They'd make a lot more if they weren't such fucking thieving scumbags...

haha....

damn dats phat

No they wouldn't :1orglaugh:winkwink:

that $250k penalty and seizing all their hardware will certainly teach them.

I wonder how much in content theft it took to make $3 mil. Think it was over $100 mil?

They got fined with a penalty? Never heard anything about that and all their hardware has been returned from what I read.

However they bought new hardware right away after the raid and loaded their backups on the new servers. :/

Their hardware has not been returned as far as I know.

nice... that is a shitload of money

Nice money, too bad it's ill gotten.

I am sure they could make as much (if not more) being legit.

well let see they just announced that you just hosted their 1 millionth torrent and they were only charged for less than 200 counts.

200/1,0000,000

i would say that a majority of the traffic is not ill gotten.

Dude it's in billions

100 000 photoshop downloads = more then 50 mills

it wont stop..
the more the press bitch the more exposure they are giving them!

I could use a million.

Not crazy on that traffic. Normal.

To bad they have nowhere to spend it, theyre always on the run

congrats to the winner

I'm guessing at least a billion.

Ders gold in dem hills!

Am I the only one who's thinking that's not a lot of money considering they're the top torrent site?
WG

Only 3 million? With that volume of traffic they have, they should be making way more.

They could never get traffic the honest way. Well not to make that kind of money.

As someone who has faced a judge for porn, it should relate, I can tell you any fine today is just the first step. When the re offend and go before a judge again it's an easier case to win and the fines are bigger and prison terms longer. Judges hate people who don't learn their lesson.

Also a warning to others.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...32237&from=rss the English version.

Not sure if anyone has done any estimated math. Like how much traffic per day approx does the site get that way we can figure out how much the average PB member is even worth.

This alone could scare enough would be tube owners away from thinking piles of cash and millions of hits when they can see some cold numbers of the largest content theft site out there.

Seriously you can almost tell whom among gfy is starting up or attempting to start a new tube style site. Legit or not does not really matter much though, its a big trend catching on and soon will be like the joke that everyone has at least 10 tgps or 10 blogs and so forth. Just more free content saturation. Well at least the legit ones are not stealing yet, but we all know soon they will want something and presto bring on the installs, toolbars, viruses, ect.

that is assuming that all people who download photoshop would otherwise buy it
and thats where it gets unreasonable
same goes for movie theft...

I like your style.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

i never heard of them...thats alot of money.

:2 cents::thumbsup

WG, your not the only one.

considering hosting all those servers probably costs a bit too, along with all the legal fees. Gross and Net are two differant things.