PirateBay is retarded anyways..... who cares if that stupid site, which has and gives out adware and spyware, is shut down!!!!!! YEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adware and spyware? Anyone that gets spyware or adware from the things they download have no one to blame but themselves for not keeping themselves properly protected.

Exactly Venom! Plus, it'll be something new to free P2P groups! Most groups, like LimeWire, have adware built into them. A Torrent site can be better protected due to browser safety. I'd rather have the optional torrent adware and blame my self, then having the mandatory spyware/adware that comes with LimeWire-esque P2P sites!

Even if they are earning money from the ads, I am sure most if not all of the money is invested back into the site so the site owners can get better and faster computers and bigger hard drives if they need them. I know a while ago they asked for donations so they could get better, faster hardware that made the site run a lot better.

If you wear a condom.... you still have a chance of getting aids..... I have truck loads of spyware and adware protector and I can still get adware and spyware from sites like piratebay.....

Where one falls, another arises, and so does the cycle of internet P2P go...

Then your protection is lacking. I've frequented The Pirate Bay quite often in the past and never had any issues with it.

I to have used The Pirate Bay and never had any problems with spyware adware or viruses and up until a few days ago i had no protection on my computer at all.

The Prosecueters are fighting a losing battle...hope the battle against the RIAA can become more to the people's favor because of the Pirate Bay

@Venom

I second that. I've been there many times and NEVER got spyware....if you have, you obviously don't read the user comments, because normally someone will comment the fact that the torrent contains some sort of malicious code.

umm you can get adware and spyware from google alone 0-o
if you are not protected your goign to get it from anywhere.

DO these morons even know how much it costs to run a server?
they dont make a profit at least not anyhting you can live off of.


BTW how the hell can they sht a site down for gettign donations? donation=gift=tax free....if thats nt the case start raining in the politions that get milloins in "donations"............

The issue of The Pirate Bay's revenues is just a smokescreen. Going after the small money they might have earned is like the police officer who gave a ticket to a child for operating a lemonade stand without a license (a true story, by the way). Pirate Bay's ads don't encourage users to download torrents from the site. A lot of the ads are personal ads, offering if you want to contact some female somewhere. The real issue is whether it can be proven that hosting links to files is illegal, whether or not the files linked to are copyrighted material. You can google your way to copyrighted material, and google is essentially an indexing service too. This assault one bittorrent sites is really an attack on the technology, which enables you to download files more efficiently and bittorrent sites to operate more economically.

Much like Iraq if they cant do it the legit way they get out the KY and backdoor it ><

Saying that they earn money from it makes it more illegal is like say that the MPAA is illegal as its gains money from doing what is does!

They can't work for free and if they earn some money then its like doing something you love and earning money for it at the same time sort of like busking for an example.

Did the site publicly state that all money received would go towards upkeep?

If you ask for a donation how on earth are you able to even begin to envisage how much revenue you'll raise? So what if they received lots of money - some folks earn shedloads singing on the corner of a street!

That's an excellent point. the MPAA and the RIAA get lots of donated money for their "Let's put people in jail or give them expensive fines for sharing on the internet" conquest and I really don't think that their employees work for free so I would think it would make them just as "illegal" at the companies they seek to destroy..........

the pirate bay is a great site- its anot retarded and gives out adware and spyware

have you ever even tried it?

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Malware is cause on the part of the user not the site. Get an antivirus with on demand scanning scan what ya dl before opening it. Has anyone heard whats up with SEEDLER.ORG

Ya with the net the way it is now adays you need anti virus stuff badly,open ports and unchecked data leaking into the comp can give you no end of grief.