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The Pirate Bay Tops 10 Million Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-word-it's-a-convoy dept.

An anonymous reader suggests we go over to Slyck for news that The Pirate Bay has cracked 10 million users. The publicity from the upcoming court case probably helped. "Today, The Pirate Bay asserts itself as the self-proclaimed 'World's Largest Tracker' by topping over 10 million peers, while managing over 1 million torrents. Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay told Slyck, 'We're very happy to be part of all of this and we hope our users keep sharing those files!... And we're looking to break 20 million as well.'"

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  1. Re:10 million users? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    You are a pirate

    Yarrr!!

  2. Re:10 million users? by ILuvRamen · · Score: 5, Funny

    that reminds me. I bet they just had a "You know, we probably should have picked a different name" moment like all the not so wisely named sites out there that took off. I mean youtube is like you and tube, I mean it's genius! But you gotta wonder if the Flickr creator ever sat down and thought "too bad flicker was already taken" lol. I know I've had one of those moments. I've now written 36 very popular stories on a certain site and now 20,000 people read each one and I'm stuck with my stupid nickname that I pulled out of my ass in 30 seconds the first time. So yeah, do you think the owner of the pirate bay ever walked into the office one day and asked someone "you think the name's why they're suing us?" They might have done better with Happyland or Distributed Data Inc.
    P.S. for all you literal people out there, this post was mostly half joking and not serious

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  3. Re:Suprnova? by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    ALL torrent traffic from EVERYWHERE accounts for 35% of the internet The remaining 65% breaks down to spam and porn.
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  4. Re:Suprnova? by houghi · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the RIAA, TPB accounts for something between 6148.87% and 7289.42% of all trafic. That is calculated note by mere technical people but by their accountants looking at the predicted loss due to TPB.

    yeah, there is lies, damn lies, statistics and the RIAA

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  5. Re:Suprnova? by Headcase88 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And 95% of the 35% of torrent traffic? Also porn.

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  6. Re:10 million users? by MMC+Monster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pirates. Not morons.

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  7. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I'm still waiting to hear the downside of the argument... ;-)