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Originally Posted by plib
Possibly. But I find it difficult to believe that even a "casual" pirate doesn't install AdBlockPlus, and even more difficult to believe that any pirate is going to waste time clicking on ads.
I don't recall ever seeing any proof that pirate websites make 100,000s of dollars in monthly ad revenue. If they do then I think they've really suckered some ad company somewhere, and I can't feel a lot of sympathy for any ad company, particularly one that silly.
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Obviously I don't claim accuracy for the above figure. But we do have some guidelines from the money Megaupload had made for that guy arrest in NZ (13 million USD or so in his bank account). Of course there also many legitimate uses for such sites. Anyway, somehow these sites are making good money (however you slice it, a lot more than the guy actually selling the DVDs on the fleemarket) and I am not saying I feel for the advertisers but I feel sorry for the money they make due to the illegal file exchanges and think we shouldn't support people making money of piracy -- in whatever form.