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The Pirate Bay Smashes 12,000,000 BitTorrent Users

torrentfreak.com — The notorious Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker has reached yet another milestone as it serves more than 12 million peers. The site is also throwing down a challenge: They want every Pirate Bay peer to tell a friend - and get 20 million on the tracker soon.

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  • 22eleven, on 04/25/2008, -2/+198I can see them getting 20million by the end of summer with all this negative anti-piracy media.
    • compu73rg33k, on 04/25/2008, -1/+11Haha, so true! brokep should have called on the anti-piracy agencies to sue them in other countries where they are not as well known - for the free press they always end up getting!
    • Splitthebiscuit, on 04/25/2008, -2/+26"negative anti-piracy"? So, is that like pro piracy?
      • ghostfaceDX, on 04/25/2008, -15/+0actually the word "negative" is nowhere to be found in his post.
        • 11oops, on 04/25/2008, -0/+9Wow. Just wow. Wouldn't you even consider to reread the post before make such an asinine comment?
    • rpgmaker, on 04/25/2008, -13/+6I can't believe that TPB generates more traffic than Mininova.org, I know TPB is the poster child of the bittorrent community but the site sucks in its current form, the search sucks. Does anyone on digg really really use it?
      • counterplex, on 04/25/2008, -1/+12The search is actually much improved. That's as a result of a recent upgrade. 'course a little birdie told me all that.
      • bbliss17, on 04/25/2008, -8/+3I agree with you. I dont understand this either. Mininova and isohunt are much better. I dont really use TPB that much at all.
        • zeabu, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3You're stupid. You don't have to stick with only one. I do Piratebay, Demonoid, Funfile, Torrentz, Isohunt, ... combined they make a very good download source.
      • Baryn, on 04/25/2008, -7/+2When I'm really ***** desperate.
      • daza, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7Mininova definitely has my personal preference, I like the clean/minimalist look of it. TPB is a great source of humour though :)
      • myak, on 04/25/2008, -0/+9Everyone uses it. Mininova is a search engine (not really sure if it's a tracker as well) and TPB is the biggest BitTorrent tracker on the face of earth. Whether you use its search feature or you use Mininova, isohunt or whatever, you sure as hell are downloading some of your torrents from TPB tracker.
      • Spuy767, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Use both of them equally. The thing I hate about mininova are the number of torrents hosted that are on private trackers.
      • 80hd, on 04/25/2008, -2/+4TPB is ok but demonoid is #1. Again
      • prophetpimp, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3mininova comment section sucks. At TPB you are bound to find out if a torrent is worth it or not just by reading the comments. the users are just more involved then anywhere else with regards to public sites.
    • sporg, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2If only there was away to search for most seeded of all time? I know I have seen some movies hit 6000+ but I did an search for Xvids arranged by seeder and Battle Star is taking the top position with 4600 right now. http://thepiratebay.org/search/xvid/0/7/0
  • badenglishihave, on 04/25/2008, -6/+61Well if I tell a friend, and then that friend tells another friend, and so on... that would be a lot of friends!
    • cvxdes1, on 04/25/2008, -8/+61If you only had a friend, that would be a huge breakthrough indeed.
      • Risingashes, on 04/25/2008, -0/+37Maybe you can tell me and I can tell you- and then we can go braid each others hair.
    • klparrot, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6And you don't need as much bandwidth as if you tried to tell everyone yourself!
      To make things more interesting, you could tell one friend there's a site that is a huge torrent tracker, and another friend that there's a site called thepiratebay, and then they could exchange that information with each other, thus both ending up knowing that thepiratebay is a huge torrent tracker.
    • NaziHatinChimp, on 04/25/2008, -4/+2And they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends....
    • oCHen, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1unless of course, that u dont have any friends
    • zeabu, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2It's just, I don't know any friend that doesn't use TPB. Even my dad is using it.
    • nolemonplease, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1reminds me of don't copy that floppy.
      http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4
      • MWeather, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1I miss the days when circumventing copy protection was as easy as taping up a hole. Now you have to get high tech and write on the disk with a sharpie.
    • frikk, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1I'm not your friend, buddy!
  • AsSubtleAsABrik, on 04/25/2008, -3/+349I'm glad to see the law suits are discouraging people from pirating things.
    • Mootabolife, on 04/25/2008, -15/+3Being smashed isn't too encouraging either... o..u...c...h...
    • gingerboy, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0Yeah definately having the desired effect hey! haha fill the tubes!!!! ;-)
  • FallOutBoyTonto, on 04/25/2008, -4/+164***** the CRIA! (I'm Canadian)
    :)
    • MAGZine, on 04/25/2008, -1/+22CRIA could really careless, I'm starting to feel. The RCMP already publicly stated they won't be pursuing Filesharers.
      • Aensland, on 04/25/2008, -9/+2RCMP... Royal Canadian Mounted Police? Gonna take a while for them to hunt down people in other countries on horseback...
        • KraftDinner101, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Wow...........
        • djlethal, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Not when every horse is the equivalent of Seabiscuit
      • fusionFactor, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1They could care less?

        Don't you mean could not care less?
    • StephC, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2I don't think the CRIA has officially declared that they will go after file sharers or even declared that it's illegal unless you distribute the downloaded content for profit. And like MAGZine said, the RCMP REALLY doesn't care. But ***** 'em anyway!! They still pander to the big labels!
    • FeartheKnighted, on 04/25/2008, -20/+6***** canada
    • aussieNickuss, on 04/25/2008, -0/+10Oh well....I may as well say ***** the ARIA! ^Aussie^
    • lupuz2k, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8don't forget about GEMA (I'm german ^^)
    • ThreeDee912, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5***** THE RIAA/MPAA/CRIA/ARIA/GEMA/CISAC/IFPI!
  • nicolasavru, on 04/25/2008, -2/+79Long Live The Pirate Bay!
  • MAGZine, on 04/25/2008, -2/+118I openly welcome the RIAA. MPAA, IFPI, and any other companies to continue to push ThePirateBay brand through mainstream news.

    More Users? Yes please.
    • JordanE, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5This is so true. Free media attention from the media for TPB!
  • vfreak2, on 04/25/2008, -1/+34From the stats they provided, more users will mean more seeders - I'm all for that!
  • Sefus, on 04/25/2008, -3/+21Long Live The Pirate Bay!
    It's got to be one of the coolest things ever... people just need to catch on.

    I'll be doing my part. Arr!
  • vfreak2, on 04/25/2008, -8/+27Sorry, I had to post again - LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY! And long live our beloved Demonoid!
  • wontstoptalking, on 04/25/2008, -2/+141Oh, god, you scared me. When I read the title, I thought "smashes" was not a good thing at all. But upon clicking on the title, I was shown otherwise! Yippee!
    • MrTankJump, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6I was thinking the same thing, while BitTorrent is running at that.
    • idslite, on 04/25/2008, -0/+12Yeah... I thought the title meant that The Pirate Bay told the RIAA/MPAA all of the users IP's and what not...
    • MrCrumbles, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Ditto. Getting smashed sounds unpleasant. Maybe if you instead "smashes target of 12,000,000 BitTorrent Users" or something similar.
    • Innovator9, on 05/25/2008, -0/+0Same here. It sounded like they sold out or something.
  • canthraxp, on 04/25/2008, -0/+34getting involved with the MAFIAA = free publicity.

    Keep up the good work MAFIAA, each step gets you closer to your own destruction... but ***** you anyway.
    • cvxdes1, on 04/25/2008, -0/+15Man, acronyms ***** infuriate all Americans.
      • robertlucas0327, on 04/25/2008, -4/+1haha i dont know if anyone else caught that but props to you cvxdes1
  • StephC, on 04/25/2008, -10/+2Get out there and download stockpiles of porn! The Pirate Bay needs ye!
  • cvxdes1, on 04/25/2008, -12/+4***** THE RIAA!

    Somebody's got to do it.
    • BobEwell, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Somebody already did do it.
    • DestroyFascism, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1T'has been done. You loose. aaaaah ha ha ha ha ha
  • mark076h, on 04/25/2008, -2/+31LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY AARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Georgy, on 04/25/2008, -15/+9Why? On one hand we complain how devious the RIAA and MPAA is?
    Then we support sites which blatantly disregard copyright laws, from where i stand the record and movie industries don't seem to have a choice.
    They have the right to profit from what they helped create.
    • PhuzzyDay, on 04/25/2008, -2/+11You might want to grab a helmet.
      • Georgy, on 04/25/2008, -5/+2Yea, i'm going to get buried but it had to be said...
    • luchid, on 04/25/2008, -5/+10No, we want record labels and the whole "middle-man-doing-the-artist-up-the-butt" business model to go away. The RIAA is nothing more than a bunch of assholes doing nothing for the artists and taking a huge cut out of their paychecks. Most of us support the artists by paying for concert tickets and buying their merchandise there too.
      • reed311, on 04/25/2008, -3/+4The middle-man invested those millions of dollars to promote the artist, to make them famous in the first place. Radiohead and NIN would be NOTHING without their record label investing that initial capital.

        Name a band that isn't on a major label that is making the big money like everyone else. You won't be able to, because the major labels do the promotion which is vital to a band's success.
        • skaldicpoet9, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2I don't know about that. A lot of bands do pretty well on their own to make a name for themselves. Aerosmith did it in the '70s by doing a crazy amount of touring. Hell, I even watched Modest Mouse gradually make a name for themselves (I am from Seattle). All the middle man does is serve to get in the way of the artist. I support recording artists and their work but I don't support these companies that seem bent on exploiting artists and their music.
        • zeabu, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2It's because the middleman has also all the media in their hand, and make it you don't air if not of a big label. That's extortion Italian Style, you know? They also ask money to protect you from themselves.

          Anyway, most stars launched by big labels, wouldn't have made it without those labels, which I give you, but would you mind to not see Britney Spears on MTV?
      • Georgy, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2Don't spout BS, so your claiming the only reason you're illegally downloading music is because you want to support the artists.
        No artist can make it big without the record labels, they just don't have the cash...
      • cliffski, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2TPB also has torrents of music and software made by small one or two man companies. they don't give a *****.
    • Risingashes, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2By raising the bar for what content is bought and what isn't you don't threaten worthwhile content, only the bad content that relies on people paying for it prior to consuming it.
      In the end movies will no longer be made by hacks, games will no longer take massive shortcuts, and music will be paid for by concerts. Personally I can't see the bad.
    • Xalorous, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1They do not help create anything except jobs for lawyers. The actual artistic content is created by the artists then marketed by these leeches. You really should read up on the whole "Intellectual Property" debate before throwing this type of comment out there. It's been done and done to death. To the point where each side thoroughly know the other's arguments.

      In the end the market will decide...
  • trackerbishop, on 04/25/2008, -11/+3Since this is another reddit import, logic dictates i must import my respective reddit comment (and no im not going to format it):

    i wonder how much WAGING this neverending battle has COST MPAA and all the companies?:D

    these corporate Neanderthals will never realize that we are evolving into a star trek society where everything is shared, accessible, and free.

    they dont want to play ball in the digital world and so they try to stick to the old ways of doing things (hard media). if you dont meet demand, economics dictates that the market will fill the void on its own.

    sadly pirate bay will be the next to be taken down. once something underground and illegal becomes popular with the masses it is immediately ruined.
  • twiztidsinz, on 04/25/2008, -1/+20But all my friends already know about TPB!
    • cvxdes1, on 04/25/2008, -5/+0You need to get yourself some offline friends.
      • zeabu, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1My offline friends don't use internet, but ask me to make copies from films, which I get from ....
  • RSS14, on 04/25/2008, -7/+26This is my first time saying this, I am excited!
    ***** THE RIAA!
    • Gndoab, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5"***** the RIAA"...adding as much to the present discourse as "First Post" since 2001.
  • Samsong, on 04/25/2008, -1/+16Pirates are bad at multiplication.
    • cvxdes1, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3However, they are good at addition.
  • DoubleSidedTape, on 04/25/2008, -0/+43When I first read the title it sounded like 12,000,000 users had been killed or turned in or something.
    • Pollux40, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Had the same thoughts. People really ought to read their headlines out loud before posting
  • Gndoab, on 04/25/2008, -6/+4yes, Send more people to our website! it's not like we make money off advertising or anything...
    Does anyone actually think that TPB guys are in it to "stick it to the man"?
    • b1kamikaze, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4Ohh come on man... of course they make some money and they should because they spend most of their time keeping the site up and defending it, but it's not like their becoming millionaires think about how much money it costs to keep that kind of operation afloat; I can't even remember the last time thepiratebay site or tracker was down, and with 12 million users I doubt that's an easy thing to do. Plus don't forget the other projects thepiratebay guys are working on related to keeping on the net uncensored material and access to it. Their kind o like the Robin Hood of the 21st century :P
    • ghostfaceDX, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2I think there are easier ways to make a quick buck off advertising then creating the biggest legal battle we have seen in our lives, and serving 12 million people pirated goods. Just me, though.
  • colincornaby, on 04/25/2008, -4/+2This is the first time I've seen numbers for pirating. I find it interesting, because commonly people say that pirating is more popular than iTunes. But iTunes has 200,000,000 users according to Wired.
    http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultof ...
    • tomtom10, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6Pirate Bay has 12,000,000 peers at any given time. You can't compare that to iTunes userbase since those 200 million are not on iTunes at the same time.
    • bbliss17, on 04/25/2008, -4/+1You have to understand that itunes is pretty much that bought an ipod and others that want to actually pay. But I know a lot of people that download music from the internet and then put it in there itunes to transfer to there ipod. So that does not mean 200 million people are paying for stuff. lol.

      Plus you also have to realize that this is one site....do you know how many torrent sites there are? More then you can count!
      • zongamin, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Never mind counting, you need to concentrate on your English.
      • sandiegodude, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0In reply to bbliss17's comments (not the grammar nazi above...)

        I'm one of those "200 million users" - I have never purchased anything from Itunes and I don't plan to. I have a 30 GB library of music in my Itunes, all loaded myself and ONLY so I can put the music on my iPod. Believe me, if I had a choice I'd likely use something else for handling my music (like Rhapsody, which has great library functions), as iTunes is juuuust buggy enough to bother me, i.e. memory leaks when importing music, random crashes and the stupid "working CD" mouse pointer that gets stuck whenever I burn a CD in iTunes that can only be fixed by rebooting. Overall though they're minor niggles and I have no problems working with iTunes overall.

        (here come the buries from the Mac fanbois because I said something negative about an apple product... lol!)
    • soppinglemon, on 04/25/2008, -2/+0***** itunes and apple Zune all the way baby
  • PueSi, on 04/25/2008, -15/+4Whatever you do, please, DO NOT reply to this post.
    I'm begging you, avoid replying.
  • mrzack, on 04/25/2008, -11/+3very good, which means more 9/11 conspiracy truth documentaries will be available for peer download. spread the word!!
    • ghostfaceDX, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3Put your tinfoil hat on when you download, the RIAA scans your brain via fake torrents.
      • mrzack, on 04/25/2008, -2/+1I dare you to investigate 9/11 pussy. You're afraid what you might find.
  • digitallysick, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6*passes around the ale*
  • orangefly, on 04/25/2008, -9/+1i...ah...only use....pirate bay....for ahhhhh.....ubuntu and such....................
    tbr rocks either way....torrents arrrrrrrre the future....
  • D14BL0, on 04/25/2008, -2/+7Long live free media!
  • badjoke, on 04/25/2008, -1/+16All my friends already use The Pirate Bay. I even overheard my girlfriend teaching her 14 year-old little sister how to BitTorrent with TPB one day. Cool times we live in.
  • digggggggggg, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3That's an awful lot of smashing going on...
  • prleet, on 04/25/2008, -8/+0as a old cyber etc..n what ever you wanna call it, yes i had my share of the net, most of you never even knew what internet was when arpa later on unix servers with *progies was around but let me say, i hate the way the internet(2) has become...dnload of music, or software were a past time(it wasn't a issue of illigality but understandsings, things that were fun to do, not to steal or cheat but to beat the system, open knowledge was the idea between hackers and crackers. I hate the way things has become..." without hackers, the internet and the computer world would not have existed(period).
    • Aensland, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5So? I was around during the old 4-digit baud modem days, I can tell you it's way more fun now than it was then. "Oh yay, I finally managed to get into this BBS..." Or telneting into random domains? Yawn. If you wanna reminisce about the good ol' days there are forums for that, gramps.
    • saxreturns, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3So other people have been putting up with you typing incoherently for that long? I feel sorry for the internet.
  • Exact0, on 04/25/2008, -2/+14I don't want to make the same argument or be cliche, but P2P has made me spend more money on music than anytime in the past.
    Teenagers are always going to download full illegal CDs because they don't have the income to spend a few extra dollars of their paycheck or allowance a week on music.

    I'm guessing most people with a few extra bucks to spend a week are like me. I'm not going to waste my money, I've worked hard for it, and I'm not going to just give my money to greedy people with no talent. I go to concerts of bands I like, buy their CDs, and maybe buy a shirt or some beers at said concert. And that money at least goes to the talent.

    I download a *****-ton of music, but I support the bands that impress me, and the music I download that I don't like gets deleted. These greedy MFs are getting free advertisement and are complaining about it.
    I mean damn, half of the music I own I've bought many times over because they won't provide a loss-less DRM-free version...and I'm sick of it. Don't give me a ***** (going to get scratched and unreadable at some point) and expect me to buy it again.
    I'm not a huge fan of NIN or Radiohead, but I've bought all their tracks just to try to get the message to these thick-headed multi-millionaire **AA.

    /rant over
    • solid12345, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2The only thing is you say you are spending more money but music sales are at an all-time low, I want to know how this works out that digital downloading is "helping" artists when sales aren't coming in.

      I think most people just download so as to not pay for ***** not to "try" music, and I stick by that.
  • fLUx1337, on 04/25/2008, -6/+5Pretty cool, though TPB still sucks for content, speed and quality......but I guess I should be glad those 12mil users ain't in any decent private trackers, n00bifying them...
    • ghostfaceDX, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5yeah, more seeds for a private tracker = n00bifying it, just cause they are all not fLUx1337 like you. Buried.
  • saucygitaristak, on 04/25/2008, -10/+6I used to torrent and I hate to say it but I stopped because I realized that it really does hurt the music industry. Being an aspiring musician, more money floating around in the hands of record companies means more opportunities for musicians.
    • Aensland, on 04/25/2008, -1/+10The chances of you being discovered by a record label isn't that high. I'd rather take my chances self-publishing over the 'net. My band isn't rich - hell, it isn't even a living - but what are the odds of that going the label route anyway? Extremely unlikely. Unless you start a scandal or get into a reality show or something. Or you could tutor/teach music, or join an orchestra, or something. Either way, choices that don't involve record labels at all.
      • saucygitaristak, on 04/25/2008, -6/+1Well my point is the industry that has supplied us with such awesome music our whole lives is based on a system we are destroying. It's a form of art. Iif we don't pay for what people create, the people on the other end get shafted (Obvious exception being Radiohead and NIN, two of the already most famous acts in the world).
        • hellathatguy, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1hello, the world called.... they want you to GROW THE ***** UP!

          /sarcasm
      • solid12345, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1The chances of you being discovered on myspace isn't that high either, it is a crap shoot.

        I'd much rather have a multi-million dollar company working to promote me rather than putting my album up online and "hoping" people find and make me a star.
    • bbliss17, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6This is better. Then we won't have lame artists that can make it because there sister is a singer. Then it will be hard to become a singer and we will then once again have talent in the industry!!
    • ghostfaceDX, on 04/25/2008, -1/+0Musicians that become famous should be DAMN GOOD at being a musician. Like the post above me, the fact that some no one can make it just because their sister is a famous singer is complete BS. Yeah let me pay for that. Paris Hilton makes music for God's sake. The music industry is a joke.
    • huge129, on 04/25/2008, -1/+0As in any other job, artists should earn the correct amount of money. Do you know any lawyer for instance that's known worldwide and get paid by millions of people? Why do artists need to be famous and be millionaires? Do as anyone else, work for some people and get paid your fair amount of money. Artists are no special. / End of rant by a normal guy who doesn't need to be famous and earn millions.
  • MrKrinkleDude, on 04/25/2008, -0/+13TPB needs to stop smashing people. It's bloody and messy. I'd prefer to keep my organs inside my body please.
  • chdodd2012, on 04/25/2008, -7/+2Okay, I have a noob question:
    I just started using BitTorrent (yesterday) and there is no way I will be in trouble for using it right? I mean, they would not pick me out of 12 million, correct?
    • xsquirrel378x, on 04/25/2008, -3/+17i hope you get caught because you sound like a little scared bitch
    • ogloom, on 04/25/2008, -0/+12BitTorrent is extremely illegal. Everyone who uses it gets caught, and then shot..Beware
    • MuRf07, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2format c: distroy the evidence ASAP
    • Aerandir, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Only if you are caught downloading Midget-amputee pr0n. Otherwise, it's completely safe.
  • Cherubim, on 04/25/2008, -4/+2The Pirate Bay will face a nasty and bitter end. I hope it doesn't but one can only give the man the finger for so long.
    • riin1979, on 04/25/2008, -2/+1Demonoid was gone forever, but it came back :P
    • meells, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1I see in your profile that you are Aussie....this surprised me when I saw it. Your comment screamed 'babyfied American viewpoint' to me. There was a time when we took pride in being able to stick it to the man over here :(. Good thing TPB isnt hosted in USA.
      • cliffski, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1what 'man' is being stuck to? the multimillionaires who run the pirate bay?
  • Takteek, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5Oh. my god.

    I hope they are alright. I'll get band-aids.
  • Paulish, on 04/25/2008, -2/+4Time to smash the RIAA and MPAA!
  • whygohome10, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4anything for the pirate bay. without torrent i am nothing
  • m1ss1ontomars, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7Oh no! Flattened bittorrent users! :(
  • BryanTravers, on 04/25/2008, -3/+4I introduced a girl to The Pirate Bay this afternoon in class. I also introduced her to Google about 30 seconds prior. It may have been too big of a step, but I thought she deserved to know.
    • Culyt, on 04/25/2008, -1/+14I understand that talking to a girl may be a big step but keep at it.
    • zongamin, on 04/25/2008, -4/+1She ***** hates you and wants you to leave her alone.
  • slyzxx, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2well to be honest not everyone who downloads off torrents goes out and buys concert tickers,items and what ever in the end its the same people profit first and then the artists.
  • Risingashes, on 04/25/2008, -3/+2I'm yet to see anyone complain about p2p sharing other than hacks.
    Talented artists are being rewarded well by the increased distribution of their work. Independent games are making millions.
    The corporations that have held music, gaming, and movies back for decades are dying- can't say I care.
    • petethepanda, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2The notion that industries are helped by theft is moronic. Do they have to adapt to the digital age? Yes. But that is not grounds for theft. The anonymity of the internet is causing people to be morally bankrupt morons, delivering blows to the very media they love and supposedly want to strive.
      • nekochan, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1theft is removing an object so its real owner no longer has it. file sharing is making a duplicate. the original owner still has the original. nothing is actually lost or stolen.
        • saucygitaristak, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2That logic is absolutely full of holes. Artists don't make concrete objects with their music, they provide a service. When you don't pay for the service, it's stealing. And also I am not a hack.
    • cliffski, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1what independent games are making millions because everyone is stealing them? please show me the list kid.
  • RunningboardV2, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1why would PB smash all its users?? that's horrible
  • bbliss17, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1go pirates!!
  • FFXIfrohike, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2Twelve million users, one seeder, this will end... badly.
    • Gatesophile, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1like a very scary version of 2 girls 1 cup...
  • disgruntledgoat, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2TPB while very popular is only a fraction of file sharing going on. It depends how you count it. Like burning a CD or DVD for a friend to try as well. IN the end those of us with the money to afford the content will buy our favourites. There's a lot of great shows that are on only on Pay TV that I have bought DVD's off after discovering on Torrents, Dexter and Entourage for instance. Also my favourite Sci-fi shows that're on at horrible times when they are on free to air.
  • dudio, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4Pirate Bay's alright, but Demonoid's back !!
  • iruber1337, on 04/25/2008, -4/+2Am I the only one that kind of thinks this is a massive ploy by the MPAA/RIAA to obtain IP addresses?
    ::evil sith-esque voice::mwhaha we totally tricked them into getting a whole bunch more people busted by us!!! /sith voice
    That would be horrible!
    /or maybe it's just the whiskey?
    //obligatory ***** the riaa/mpaa
    • neolarthytep, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2You wouldn't also happen to be a loser who believes 9-11 was an inside job?
  • avstralopitek, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Go Pirate Bay, go!
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