The creators of the Pirate Bay have tweeted that due to this unintentional downtime they’ll be able to make some changes in it. It doesn’t matter now, what all problems impacted the domain, as it seems that it has been resolved as the website is up again. In 2009, the defense claimed that the site’s yearly expense is about $110,000. In his defense, he said, “It’s not free to operate a Website on this scale” and that if he was earning the stated amount then he wouldn’t be working late and rather would have been sitting on a beach. To this Dagbladet insisted that these claims are not true. In 2008, IFPI claimed that The Pirate Bay is highly profitable and they are focussing more on making a profit rather than protecting supporting people’s rights. According to Svenska Dagbladet, the advertisement helped them to generate 84000 US Dollars per month. Since 2006, they have been receiving funds via advertisements on their page. For this, they offered the donors some time-constrained benefits like a “VIP status” and no advertisement policy.Īfter that, they removed the link from their home page and the donation page promoted them to donate to “local piracy groups” for some time being and after that, it re-directed the users to the main page of the site. The Entrepreneur Carl Lundstrom has provided financial support to Pirate Bay and the report was confirmed when Tobias Andersson acknowledged in a talk show that “without Lundstrom’s support, Pirate Bay would not have been able to start” and also stated that the funded money was used up in acquiring bandwidth and server.įrom 2004 to 2006, they had a donate link, which was linked to a donation page with various methods of payment, and they made sure that the fund was used to support the tracker. According to them, within 2 years of the raid, their registered users have grown from 1 million to 2.7 million which is actually huge support.

The Pirate Bay affirms that it has now over 5 Million users. The report states that the Film Industry incurs a loss of around 2.8 Billion Dollars every year as a result of illegal downloads. It causes a huge loss to the content creator for which they are not compensation. The Pirate Bay has a huge impact on Entertainment Industry as its users don’t visit the theatre to watch the movies. The website has faced domain seizures and several shutdowns and in order to continue operating, they had to keep switching to a chain of new web addresses. The Pirate Bay has triggered discussions which gave way to controversies regarding its legality, copyright issues, civil rights.

According to a study conducted by TorrentFreak in 2013, among the total uploads, 44% comprised of movies and Television shows, followed by 35% uploads of porn videos and 9% of Audio uploads.

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