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Warez Sites Generate $227 Million in Ad Revenue

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) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday February 21 2014, @07:29PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 21 2014, @07:29PM (#4489) Journal

    If anyone feels like it they could call them "infringers", it's only three letters more than pirates and has the same number of syllables.

    Or did I get that wrong? Pi-ra-tes vs. in-frin-gers? :3

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  • (Score: 1) by lx on Friday February 21 2014, @07:59PM

    by lx (1915) on Friday February 21 2014, @07:59PM (#4506)

    Why do you pronounce it pee-rat-tees? It's pie-rats. As in rats that eat pie.

    • (Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday February 21 2014, @09:27PM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 21 2014, @09:27PM (#4557) Journal

      Yeah I don't pronounce it that way but "pi-rats" (or "pie-rats") looked all wrong.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Friday February 21 2014, @09:00PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday February 21 2014, @09:00PM (#4540) Homepage Journal

    Ah, but copyright isn't he only thing you can infringe. I'd call the NSA infringers, for instance. Only what they are infringing is our constitutional rights rather than our copyrights.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday February 21 2014, @10:08PM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 21 2014, @10:08PM (#4574) Journal

      It would always have/need some context anyway but it's a possible alternative if anybody feels strongly enough about it. After all it's never called piracy in court since piracy is something entirely different.

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