p2pnet - rss feed: Will ads sink The Pirate Bay?
p2p news / p2pnet: Every web page has to pay its way, somehow, and the more it grows, the harder it gets. That’s the reality. And it follows that staff have to be able to find their mortgages, feed their kids, fork out ever-more-exorbitant amounts for gasoline, and so on.
That rule certainly applies to p2pnet, even though it still only has a staff of one.
We’ve always been a non-entrepreneurial site, and we still are, but were it not for our handful of flat-rate faithful advertisers …….
And that rate hasn’t changed since the day BearShare, Blubster, LimeWire, Morpheus and Warez first signed on, although p2pnet now has a very significant audience of readers around the world - much larger than when kicked off in 2002. But we continue to turn down potentially lucrative ads because we didn’t like what they’re trying to sell, because the ads are pop-ups, because they’re pumping products or services from firms we believed are against the p2p community, or because they’re trying to use the ads to sneak in tricky coding.
And this year, thanks to the depredations of Warner Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Vivendi Universal, the members of the Big our Organized Music gang who are trying to use lawsuits to both crush any and all competition and to sue their own customers into buying inferior, over-priced product on- and offline, we’ve actually lost two supporters: LimeWire and BearShare.
But if advertisements are key to survival, they also have their dangers, as TorrentFreak over in The Netherlands points out.
“The fact that The Piratebay Founders profit from ad revenues could mean that they are facing stricter laws in the upcoming court case,” says the site.
Piratebay founder Fredrik Neij said to Svenska Dagbladet on Wednesday, “If there is money left over, it will go to us who work at Pirate Bay as salaries.”
This could mean trouble according to prosecutor Håkan Roswall, says TorrentFreak.
Why?
It’s, “going to be an entirely different penalty if it turns out they earn money through their work.”
But in the meanwhile, “big corporations like broadband provider Verizon are lining up to advertise their goods to the bandwidth craving pirates ;)+ says the post.
Digg this.
Also See:
TorrentFreak - Ads Could Kill The Piratebay, July 8, 2006
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July 8th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
hmmm ads i remember those before i used adblocking software!!
July 8th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
There has been a sort of lurking type mentality in many websites that thinks there is profit in the internet and how to milk it is the main priority. While I don’t know whether this is true or not, I’ve read elsewhere that there are several websites that the original members of staff are leaving. It seems that they were helped financially by silent partners who then got changes to the sites for that help. Selling accounts, warez, pay-to-download, being among those items sought. Also increasing dramatically the ads so as to milk it yet futher.
Some of the sites have stated they will be back under different names without the financial backer but with the old staff. I am purposely being vague on the who’s, where’s, and the like, while telling the story.
A website must always be on the watch out when accepting money for ads. There are those that will insert trojans, virsuii, and other popups to sell your data to the highest bidder or to add to their growing list of botnets. By refusing to run IE and by adding some extensions if you use FF you can reduce a lot of this BS. I’ll leave it to you to discover which of those I am speaking of.
July 8th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
it’s amazing to navigate through websites now with a non-adblocked browser, it’s incredible the level of shit people put up with.
July 9th, 2006 at 4:04 am
thanx to this story i have adblock on my firefox browser now. the difference is amazing.
July 9th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
also make sure you replace your host file with a filtering version such as supoertrick and install popupsdie extension in mozilla which totally cuts out pop ups
July 9th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
its only idiots who uses internet explorer who really have to put up with ads as mozilla can filter out the crap with the appropriate extensions
July 10th, 2006 at 3:36 am
Warning to members!
Jon, please delete this with the post above it. As a note of warning, please do not click on any of the links above. You stand a good chance of getting a trojan, virus, or any other sort of malware. The shady characters that do posts such as the above are not to be trusted with having any sort of good intentions. That part of the link is in a foreign language makes it even more suspicious.
As a last thought, when ever anyone sees these sort of posts, a warning should be posted so that no one inadvertently tries one out thinking it might be a valid post.