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posted by Dopefish on Friday February 21 2014, @01:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the mpaa-and-riaa-can't-touch-this dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"The Digital Citizens Alliance has posted a new report estimating that the 'top warez/pirate sites' generate $227 million dollars in ad revenue each year in which a portion of the cash comes from businesses such as Amazon, McDonalds and Xfinity.

TorrentFreak has an interesting write-up on the report going through the numbers nicely and breaking it down. Based on an estimate of the operating costs, torrent sites are also believed to be the most profitable, with profit margins up to 94.1%. It has to be noted, however, that ad revenue is often the only source of income for torrent sites, where direct download hubs and streaming sites have secondary revenue streams through subscriptions and affiliate deals."

 
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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @05:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @05:54PM (#4436)

    Sure that works great if you want to jump from figurative and literal where it suits you.

    You side stepped the entire point of the phrase, and then said it was wrong. Your website that you pimp your book out on isn't free, someone has to pay for it somewhere. And if you aren't paying for the hosting yourself, then you are on a shared server; when that shared server gets hacked, you pay for it with a lesson that you should have bought your own host. Those tree that bare fruit used chemicals in the earth to eventually create something, that wasn't free. You likely water that tree, which isn't free. You also have to walk out and collect the fruit, again not free.

    Money doesn't grow on trees, things you can sell do. If you let your fields grow vegetables, but never sell them you didn't grow money. The effort you put into yielding those crops and selling them is where you make your money.

    So maybe those old adages are more correct then you think.

    (My significant other has a degree in philosophy, she would be upset if I didn't chime in here)

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