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How much does it cost to run a site that deals with pirated content? (leminal.space)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Gnarly-Repacks is requesting donations for the renewal bill for their site and I know FitGirl sporadically makes requests for donations as well. It makes me curious what range of expenses do sites like these incur and what they are.

I do vaguely recall The Pirate Bay 2013 documentary TPB AFK talking a bit about their revenue but I don't know if they talked much about their expenses.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Person spending days and weeks to make content, repacks it and makes it available for free.

Person downloading and using it for free: why are you asking for money?

Anyone can spin up a website for cheap and serve torrents for the heavy lifting. At least when you know people will seed your stuff, which is the case it seems.

Maybe the website takes a big load, IDK, but did you consider that asking for funds for the site isn't (only) for paying the hoster? It's for paying for the site, for supper, pc parts and the games, work, among others. Seems to be quite exclusive work too.

I'm not trying to do a moral judgement here, just trying to clear up the confusion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I donate to them regularly because I respect and appreciate what they do. I asked because I was curious about the logistics behind it and how sustainable it is (if they rely on donations versus ads or pay out of their own pocket).

Gnarly-Repacks for example says

I pocket none of this, as every donation sent will only be used for hosting costs so this site stays up to keep providing you with quality releases.

on the donation page of their site and as someone who has minimal experience running a website it made me curious.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

So it seems you got an answer that you are okay with.

[–] southsamurai 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think they were more asking about what the costs are, not what generates the costs or any kind of complaint about paying for such things.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dude it's a piracy community. People do it for free. Some people ask for help to continue doing it.

That's it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Doesn't Empress charge $500?

[–] southsamurai 1 points 8 months ago

I'm not asking asking this as a put-down, but is English not your first language? Allow me to try and say it all differently.

What you're saying is that the people perform the necessary tasks without expecting did be paid for their labor, but some ask contributions for it.

What OP was asking is what those people (the ones running a site to maken the fruit of their labor available to others) have to pay in order to make it available.

We're well aware that the labor is possibly free.

But it still costs someone money to host a site with a domain name and the ability for other people to download anything. That's what OP was asking about, those costs to the person providing the files that get pirated by others.

That's it.