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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The Pirate Bay is not worried about people getting tricked or scammed (if they are, do they virus check the links??), they are worried their precious ad revenue goes down.
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I'm not disagreeing with you that TPB is worried about ad revenue, but...
Given the volume of material that the site links to, it would be impossible for them to download and check every file for viruses in a timely fashion, and that doesn't even get into the increased legal risk they would incur in downloading all of the material. That's not to say though that they don't have protections in place; The Pirate Bay effectively crowd sources file checking. The site is setup so users can post in comments on a link's page and click the equivalent of a "like" button to indicate that a file is legit; plus the very nature of bit torrent means that legit files will be seeded more than virus laden traps. For a file with lots of downloads, it's easy for a would-be pirate to tell if the link they're clicking on is the actual file.