The Pirate Bay Tops 10 Million Users

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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Re:It all comes down to $$$

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This is a full load of lies and misconceptions.
Piratebay: For the most part they are young professionals working in IT. The server are hosted at the same company that gives them work. They get some money for paying the bills.

A Poor Videogame Creator: You coward should know that a private working on a videogame usually does not recoup the costs due to lack of distribution. So either the game is acquired by a famous company and becomes a hit (quite unlikely) or the game will be offered in a bundle that actually can get some revenue despite piracy. All other options like selling 5.000 copies as you said are pure bullshit since no one will print them in the first place. And if you get to work at a software company you get a salary!!! (And I don't see EA bankrupting soon...)

I am quite sure that when you were growing you had no downloads. As much as I am sure you have been making copies of LPs on tapes!!! So stop being a whiner and start being objective.

it's the average person that watches the movies and listens to the music that will suffer. They are telling this since 1970... I'd pirate just for the fun to see if that's true... BTW I think this is a faster way to get the work done: http://www.jamendo.com/

Re:10 million users?

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I suppose the laws are written for the wealthy and the powerful, not for the majority. Nothing new here eh.