Prosecutors: The Pirate Bay makes $4 million a year

w00t!!! is all i have to say.
EVERYONE PLZ GO BUY A T-SHIRT HELP EM OUT

Sadly in time TPB will suffer the same fate as many other popular torrent trackers. 4million dollars is allot of money for just running ads.

yeah but think of their legal fees. this isn't the first time they been in court :D

THis Awesome They are the one of the greatest torrent sites

Shummyr

4 million dollars a year, based on what evidence?

Guesswork, as usual.

This may just be the case that finally convinces people to stop buying ANY US made films and music... ever.

Originally posted by varnull:

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Guesswork, as usual.

This may just be the case that finally convinces people to stop buying ANY US made films and music... ever.

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Originally posted by SatoSky:

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4 million dollars a year, based on what evidence?

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$4 million a year? Just for giggles I decided to checkout the ad prices and status for TPB and here they are:

Prices:

1-day link (approx. 266 clicks) - $44.21
7-day (1,864 clicks) - $277.31
30-day (7,989 clicks) - $1,061.14

Other fun information:

6,000,000+ pages views per day
1,100,000+ unique visitors per day
Alexa Rank: 152 (according to AdBrite) 146 according to the actual Alexa site.
40% of advertisers re-purchase an ad
AdBrite member since Oct. '05

Last but not least (and probably no surprise) most traffic comes from Sweden, the U.S. and the U.K.

One funny fact, AdBrite has TBP listed under "Games -> General".


Anyway, even with $1k/month ad prices I couldn't see them making $4 million even with the ads they have plus AdSense.

Maybe something around $500k tops, and thats if each individual link is its own ad.

Peace

Originally posted by Pop_Smith:

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$4 million a year? Just for giggles I decided to checkout the ad prices and status for TPB and here they are:

Prices:

1-day link (approx. 266 clicks) - $44.21
7-day (1,864 clicks) - $277.31
30-day (7,989 clicks) - $1,061.14

Other fun information:

6,000,000+ pages views per day
1,100,000+ unique visitors per day
Alexa Rank: 152 (according to AdBrite) 146 according to the actual Alexa site.
40% of advertisers re-purchase an ad
AdBrite member since Oct. '05

Last but not least (and probably no surprise) most traffic comes from Sweden, the U.S. and the U.K.

One funny fact, AdBrite has TBP listed under "Games -> General".


Anyway, even with $1k/month ad prices I couldn't see them making $4 million even with the ads they have plus AdSense.

Maybe something around $500k tops, and thats if each individual link is its own ad.

Peace

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Ah, thats true ZippyDSM, I forgot about donations. :p

Originally posted by Pop_Smith:

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Ah, thats true ZippyDSM, I forgot about donations. :p

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Originally posted by Pop_Smith:

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Ah, thats true ZippyDSM, I forgot about donations. :p

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Ya but lets not mince words they GIVE to thos orgz not the other way round, butthey do get donations the trick is they either use that money for up keep or give it to fight the media mafia.

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Originally posted by Pop_Smith:

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Ah, thats true ZippyDSM, I forgot about donations. :p

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Ya but lets not mince words they GIVE to thos orgz not the other way round, butthey do get donations the trick is they either use that money for up keep or give it to fight the media mafia.

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or they do what was reported and confirmed in the Swedish Press - 2 of the 4 charged bought luxury houses in the centre of Stockholm at prices between $ 750,000 - $ 1 million over the last two years.

either way the true profits will come out in court as they will gain access to all their financial records, kept, hidden or whatever and then we can judge for ourselves instead of speculating.

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If the pirate bay can make that much money off of ads and donations isn't it a good sign that the big companies should maybe take up a similar business model? I know some of them are but come on!

That's some expensive advertising costs! I wonder who would pay TPB so much money. I've never clicked on any of the ads, so I have no idea who is advertising. I prefer isohunt anways.

Prosecutors: The Pirate Bay makes $4 million a year

Big Deal. More power to them.

As of her latest Court filing Briney Spears earns $737,868 a month http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20520293/ Who is overpaid?

Originally posted by Pop_Smith:

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$4 million a year? Just for giggles I decided to checkout the ad prices and status for TPB and here they are:

Prices:

1-day link (approx. 266 clicks) - $44.21
7-day (1,864 clicks) - $277.31
30-day (7,989 clicks) - $1,061.14

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I love hearing news like this cause the more they try to find on tpb they are going to end up going on a wild goose chase that will have nothing at the end of the ride.