How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
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Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#2Summary: "some people give away free (others') movies, and then put some links to their private adsense-laden portals in a README file or somesuch. This accounts for a very large percentage of the downloads from the pirate bay."
Very interesting findings, but it doesn't really answer the question of how important these people are to the pirate ecosystem. Are they just taking releases from more-private "underground" seeders and putting them on the pirate bay (in which case they are, effectively, just spammers and their elimination wouldn't really hurt the pirates) or do they actually provide the content themselves?
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#3discussion on slashdot
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1342236/How-Do-Seeder...
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#4I am shocked, shocked that piracy is not driven by music connoisseurs and film buffs eager to bring the artistic and cinematic masterworks of our times like Baby and Salt to poor wretches who can barely afford their $60 a month broadband and $500 computers to say nothing of their $0.99 music downloads.
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#5People have been putting those little files in for years, the only thing that's changed is that now the destination sites are bittorrent trackers with adverts and the txt files are poorly spelled and ugly, whereas back in the day they'd have awesome ASCII art advertising the various scene dumpsites the release had been FXP'd through.
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#6Summary: "some people give away free (others') movies, and then put some links to their private adsense-laden portals in a README file or somesuch. This accounts for a very large percentage of the downloads from the pirate bay." Very interesting findings, but it doesn't really answer the question of how important these people are to the pirate ecosystem. Are they just taking releases from more-private "underground" s…
Most of the content on tpb comes from the scene which does not condone p2p sharing. These people just have access to scene releases early and want to profit from it.
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-slice-the-top-o...
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-are-the-new-kid...
Sadly, the report does not list any of the usernames of those that they studied. However, if you just go to a category, pick a frequent submitter, and look at their uploads most of the time there tags from many different groups. Some even try to claim other's releases as their own.
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#7discussion on slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1342236/How-Do-Seeder...
... which is a dupe of this one:
http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/1611226/100-P2P-Users-Upl...
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#8Sounds like some good entrepreneurship going on there. These creative business models should be applauded. Some of them, if encouraged, may even lead to viable distribution business models for movies and music in the future.
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#9Summary: "some people give away free (others') movies, and then put some links to their private adsense-laden portals in a README file or somesuch. This accounts for a very large percentage of the downloads from the pirate bay." Very interesting findings, but it doesn't really answer the question of how important these people are to the pirate ecosystem. Are they just taking releases from more-private "underground" s…
Their elimination would slow the system to a crawl I'd imagine, in Australia at least the uploads are always capped low enough that seeding back will slow down the rest of your web activities. So it isn't feasible unless your not at the computer to seed back at any decent frequency. When something new hits the pirate bay and is popular it is already pretty slow.
Re: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit
#10Sounds like some good entrepreneurship going on there. These creative business models should be applauded. Some of them, if encouraged, may even lead to viable distribution business models for movies and music in the future.
I'm far from a fan of the big movie studios and their rigid distribution models, but I'm still unconvinced that annotating other people's content with spam portals is either (i) a particularly creative business model or (ii) a viable alternative revenue source for those creating and selling the content.