Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: When it comes to the Pirate Bay, it's usually movie studios, music producers and software creators that get annoyed with the site — you know, copyright and all that. But in an interesting twist it is now users who find themselves irked by and disappointed in the most famous torrent site in the world.

So what's happened? Out of the blue, the Pirate Bay has added a Javascript-powered Bitcoin miner to the site. Nestling in the code of the site is an embedded cryptocurrency miner from Coinhive. Users who have noticed an increase in resource usage on their computers as a result of this are not happy.
TorrentFreak reports the miner is being tested for about 24 hours -- as a possible way to earn enough revenue to remove advertising from the site.

Comments

Re:Really?

[gurps_npc]

You need to learn a basic skill: Comparison.

It's not "Are AIs capable of driving cars?" It's "Are AIs better than humans at driving cars."

It's not "Is the Death Penalty a deterrent?" It's "Is the Death Penalty a better deterrent than life in prison?"

It's not "Is this really worth it?" But instead "Is this more profitable than advertisements?"

And web ads are notoriously low value. So yes, this looks to be worth while.