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- Gholas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+85"Low Prices Everyday. Guaranteed." displayed across the top of The Pirate Bay.
Sweet sweet irony. - Spudz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+68It could possibly be intentional. Where better to lure potential customers with your "deals" than at a site they are attempting to download the title from? It's almost like advertising on a competitors site. If you have any problems with the download...some people might actually say "Hey, look at that, rather than struggling with this download, I can get it for $9.99 at Walmart."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38I'm guessing they signed up to some web marketing banner thingy, and their service provider put them on the PirateBay.
The cool thing that even this comments page has WalMart ad-sense on the right (at least for me), so whatever happens, they will benefit. - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Now I know why that round yellow bastard is always smiling.
- Antialias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27There are Microsoft banners as well. We can be pretty sure the companies being advertised don't know their ads are showing on a pirate/warez site.
- duhblow7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19So all of you don't use Adblock? I've never seen an ad on TPB, same with Digg.
- TVarmy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Yeah. It does make sense to advertise on Pirate Bay when one thinks about it. I mean, the average person interested in a movie likely gets confused by all this talk of ports, firewalls, routers, and trackers, and they might not have a nerd in their life to set it all up for them. Plus, they end up only watching it on their monitor because they don't know how to convert an AVI to a DVD (Let's assume they don't find the straight DVD rips, and they never think to get an Apple TV or Slingbox). Bit Torrent is extremely fast and simple to use once set up, but before then, it can be pretty confusing. Thus, I can see cheap Walmart DVDs being attractive.
- misxn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12But does anyone actually click a Wal-mart banner ad?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12indexing site....
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10FTA "According to Variety, Wal-Mart placed targeted ads for DVDs of “The Sopranos”, “Smallville”, “Desperate Housewives” and the movie “Office Space” and other DVDs. The ads appeared on pages that linked to corresponding torrents."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement. Don't let the RIAA convince you it's stealing.
- Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Feck. Can't find it on TPB. Hey, there's an ad for it at walmart. Only $10, huh?" *buys it, rips it to mpeg4, and seeds it*
Somehow, I can't see how this is a bad thing. - sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Hopefully there ads for new movie releases, I want to make sure I'm stealing the most up to date movies.
- bmoormann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Good for Wal~Mart! The best answer to piracy is making the legal product cheep and easy to get.
- Sarevok9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Lol couldn't be said any better.
Tomorrow: wal mart sues (insert marketing company here) - bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Interesting to hear that the Pirate Bay is generating so much Revenue. Does this mean that the founders are not fighting for our "right" to pirate things, and instead are just looking to get paid?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5$75,000 a MONTH with AD REVENUE ?
Holly crap, that's an even bigger story in itself, to me. :| I have to take my banners more seriously. - Jolls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So by putting up ads on a torrent site, are you just giving ideas to people who are looking for something to download and watch?
- randyzaia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm in the online ad business and I guarantee you this is unintentional on Wal-Mart's part. They did a buy with an ad network that put them on Pirate Bay, they're going to find out what network it is, and probably pull their budget.
Happens all the time - tempting for ad networks because stuff like this performs. Napster on torrent sites, etc.. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@TheAkolyte
STFU. I don't watch TV because I can't stand "wasting" in front of the 1 hour for a 45 minutes show.
I downloaded episodes of Smallville and ended up buying all 5 seasons cuz it's so freakin good.
Same thing for the tv series Justice -- I love it, once the DVDs come out, I'm buying them.
I agree with not paying for worthless crap like an album that has only one good song in it, but if you (or anyone else) don't buy anything just because you can't get a freakin job, that's not my problem. - dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4More importantly, when is that album coming out?
- charginw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Walmart executive says "So Target wants to play hardball eh..."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Geeks are not usually without loved ones, I think that's just a joke that everyone likes to spread around. The people that have more loved ones that anyone else are the *****, aside from that there is a level playing field.
- ferrell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Pirate Bay - Always Low Prices
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I never thought I'd say this, but Wal-Mart... you're my hero. (nah not really, just for this)
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the irony that many hate Walmart on Digg
and irony that their are a lot of people supporting Walmart just because its supporting them - mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd like to think of it as Wal-Mart simply recommending DVD's to me through their ads. :)
- SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was just correcting foobar, *****.
- cesclaveria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3scott, please find me a single copy of any album,game, program hosted on tpb servers, if you do then it is a warez site, if not, it is just and indexing site for shared content.
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Have not seen an ad online in 2+ years. I don't even know what Digg looks like w/ ads. I buy various items from the sites I go to though so I'm not a total leech...
- SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For some locations in the world it is considered correct English to treat a collective noun as plural, thus making it okay to use "are." For example, in Britain you would say "Pink Floyd are getting back together" instead of "Pink Floyd is getting back together." Wal-Mart conceivably can be labelled a collective noun much like a band, as it is a group of people working together under one name, so this person is not necessarily incorrect. Thank you, drive through.
- tsbardella, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I know dubloh, with Adblock I never see those ads..... But I shop at Wal-Mart in fact that is where I get my Dickies and look for a Wii. Also cheese..
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What does China have to do with the Pirate Bay?
- rajivm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bpapa
Revenue != Profit
I am sure that a good deal of that money is used towards server expenses - alcoholanon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pirates are cheap. Thus the correlation to Wal-Mart.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3*isn't
Walmart is a single entity. - juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Okay every big company has advertising in websites that are doing "wrong" things, Stop with the WalMart Bashing it gets annoying after a while, watch Pen & Teller ***** : Walmart
- lukychmz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1remember the amount of visitors TPB gets a month....smart idea in my opinion
- opiniastrous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mmm, it doesn't seem to make that much sense, but then again, maybe there are more people like me...
I'll pirate anything I can get my hands on, but if anything that I like ever comes out, I'll actually buy the DVD/Season because:
a) It's usually better quality, and
b) If no-one buys DVDs of good movies and shows, then studios will eventually stop forking out the hundreds of millions of dollars required for good directors, scripts, actors, equipment, etc. (which leads to c)
c) studios will just start financing piles of crap (e.g. Date Movie) that they can make cheap and know they can get idiotic teenagers to watch... - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Torrentfreak gets hundreds of millions of hits every day. Two digg articles aren't going to generate THAT much more traffic then they're used to seeing.
- deltrey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Part of my work is designing web (banner) ads. I do know that if a company like Pirate Bay does not have a paid advertiser for a position they can't just leave it blank. What they do is get a digital marketing company to host ads for their site...these marketing companies have their own ads that fill these blank positions when needed. This is probably how the Wal-Mart ad is showing up . Wal-mart probably advertises with TPB's ad hosting company.
- MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1> "why would they then click on a banner to buy DVDs at walmart.?"
Click-through ratio is one thing... but I'm sure Wal-Mart is happy by people just seeing their ads. It might remind someone that you can go to Wal-Mart and buy a $5 DVD.
You can't click on a billboard... but billions are spent on billboard advertising. It puts the image in front of a potential buyer. And that's what advertising does. - VeyronSengh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Regardless of whether people click on them or not, part of the job is accomplished from someone seeing one.
Imo, smart thinking. - Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, adblock initially blocked both this Digg article and the target article, for use of the word 'sponsor'
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3They make billions of dollars, do you really think they're that ***** stupid?
Of course they know, otherwise they'd set their AdWords campaign to filter out TPB. They probably even CHOSE TPB to advertise on, simply because a lot of their target audience is on there. - kman2k1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw Windows Live banners on the browse page.
- bultaco370, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wasn't wally-world and the MPAA or RIAA at ends recently? Something over a price hike that they wanted wal-mart to go in with and wal-mart responded by threatening to cease sale of DVDs or CDs? Digg this down if its false/makes no sense... but if I recalled that correctly that would make this business of supporting TPB all the more ironic.
- Craga89, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6If they didn't they sure do now!
- aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@soogy
They're billion dollar companies. Meaning they have multi million dollar advertising budgets. Meaning they hire companies to manage their advertising budgets, and those companies hire other companies to hire other companies to manage their advertising budgets. So no, Microsoft probably had very little to do with ads being placed there. Whatever banner company was hired decided that an ad there would probably generate a lot of hits and give them more money. That's all. - mike503, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i've seen ads for microsoft on mininova. i took a screenshot for good measure.
probably randomly served, but funny nonetheless. -
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