WastedTimes

[aiolos]

The file sharing site The Pirate Bay are operating with revenues far exceeding previous estimates. The most expensive ads cost €20,000 for a single day.

And that's only for the Scandinavian market.

With ad revenues from the entire planet the bottom line is even more attractive. The money is channeled through a company in Switzerland sharing an address with another company specialising in tax planning.

The controversial file sharing site The Pirate Bay is far from the innocent hobby project cofounders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm want people to think.

The past four months the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of €60,000 per month, according to sales manager Luar Busó. The police raid on 31 May resulted in even more visitors to the site and prices for ads went up accordingly.

'The biggest ads today cost €20,000 and so far we've sold four', says Luar Busó.

h__p://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml

[nargd]

What's your point? Are you jealous of their success? Did you really think that they could, would or should provide that service for free? Did you think that there would be no costs involved? You sound like a typical left winger who begrudges anyone their success?

[aiolos]

First of all calm down.
Second my political views are none of your business.
Third, this is just news. If you like it read it. If not, move on.
Fourth, what's YOUR POINT ?
Fifth, do you think that using a big colored font maked your post more important ?

Damn newbies...

[nargd]

My point is patently obvious. When you state your political views in public, they become grist for the public mill. If you don't want them commented upon, don't whine about what you read in the news!

[pakigang]

Wow I didn't know that. I also thought Pirate Bay wasn't making money. Now file sharing = money, no wonder RIAA & MPAA are jealous. Ofcourse this is my opinion

[aiolos]

I didn't state anything. You see what you want to see.
Typical forum troll.

[cyberval]

nargd, calm down, this is just an open discussion board.

aiolos is a vlaued member here who provides us with many interesting stories. He didn't even mentioned politics here, so no reason for you to start screaming around..

Only if you are a part of Pirate bay that makes a difference, other than that this is just a public worldwide forum and you cant do nothing to change the way this forum is going..

Peace and have a coffee.. it helps..

[Grim]

Hmm, millions eh, I wonder if they would donate any to me, I am short of cash at the moment?

I suppose technically they arent making the money from warez but from the ads so they could probably defend that in court if it were to ever go there!

[Raziel]

can i just say:
nargd, at no point can i see aiolos sharing his views on this subject. all he done was post some interesting news about it.

its always good to read the post befre you attempt to attack people.

[nargd]

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. I mistook aiolos's posting as a posting of his opinion of the story not as a paraphrasing of the story in the Swedish newspaper. Again, mea culpa.