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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
I'd be interested to hear what pirate sites you're familiar with, given that the picture you paint is wildly at odds with what I've seen.
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Then maybe you need to get out more. Check out the screen grabs at The Ethical Fan:
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This is a screen shot of the pirate website Kick Ass Torrents that shows a search for the latest Lucasfilm movie, Red Tails. Note that on the date of this posting, May 2, the legal product will not be released until May 22 in the US. On the right hand side of the page, you can see advertising from ISP AT&T. These are targeted ads that are designed to show up on web sites used by frequent downloaders of illegal content. If pirates were unable to sell advertising on these sites, they would not have the resources to operate these sites. Rather than these ISPs being part of the solution, it appears to us that they are actually helping to drive the phenomenon by buying targeted advertising in these sites.
In our opinion, AT&T appears to be sponsoring the access to Lucasfilm product prior to the products’ release date
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There's a lot more there and elsewhere.
David Lowery at the Trichordist minces no words:
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Virtually all of these Artist Exploitation sites such as The Pirate Bay, Demonoid, Iso Hunt and others are operating for profit. Again, this is not about fans sharing, this is about illegally operating businesses making millions (and more likely Billions collectively) of dollars a year from the exploitation of artists work and not sharing any of the revenue with artists.
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Those millions and billions are coming from ad revenues. Do you think those pirate site servers operate for free ? Well, think again.