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The Pirate Bay Tops 15 Million Peers

torrentfreak.com — Today, The Pirate Bay reached a new milestone, as they now have more than 3 million registered users. On top of that, they track close to 15 million unique peers. The largest BitTorrent tracker just keeps growing and growing, and there is no sign that this will be put to a halt anytime soon.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 22, 2008

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  • SubjectiveC, on 09/22/2008, -2/+98And nobody's seeding.
  • idc5, on 09/22/2008, -10/+75***** the RIAA
  • sega01, on 09/21/2008, -10/+68This is awesome, though I don't like the ads on their site, they act as a tracker for so many peers, it is incredible. TPB alone has been a central point allowing petabytes of sharing and freedom of information; the admins are some of the most philanthropic people IMO. We need more bold people like those behind TPB.

    Down with the RIAA!
  • kinseyincanada, on 09/22/2008, -4/+54AFKIRAHCUTE - unscramble it and win a prize!
  • sgtcaboose, on 09/22/2008, -8/+57I think you meant

    ***** THE RIAA!
  • AlphaNeonic, on 09/22/2008, -6/+40And they say people around the world can't come together for a common cause!

    "***** THE RIAA!"

    ~ Sincerely, Earth
  • mark076h, on 09/21/2008, -7/+39LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY ARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • sfacets, on 09/22/2008, -3/+28There are ads on TPB?
  • Merp08, on 09/22/2008, -3/+26Ads?
  • Murdats, on 09/22/2008, -4/+27***** THE RIAA
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -4/+26The Pirate Bay has opened me up to so much rare film, movies, and music.

    Who needs TV when you have the Pirate Bay for new random cool stuff.
  • Lendon2020, on 09/21/2008, -6/+25Congratulations TPB !
  • GenericJoshman, on 09/22/2008, -0/+17What?
  • CalcProgrammer1, on 09/22/2008, -2/+18Either way, it's a win-win situation, the users get stuff for free and the admins get money.
  • blackmesa, on 09/22/2008, -0/+14Just because of you I'm going to pirate double my usual amount today.
  • stouffer67, on 09/22/2008, -2/+16AFRIKA CHUTE? I must be missing something.
  • JakeW, on 09/22/2008, -1/+14AdBlock Plus?
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -6/+19Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate!
    Yar - har - fiddle-dee-dee, being a pirate is all right with me!
    Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate!
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -4/+17Offer me songs/albums at a reasonable cost (no more than 50 cents a song, or $7 for a whole album), and 100% DRM free...and I'll pay you to download them. Until then, ***** off!!
  • ObiWanCalobi, on 09/22/2008, -1/+13Looks like you're wrong. Just saying.
  • m60dude5, on 09/22/2008, -4/+15I wonder how many comments I am going to count that say: ***** the RIAA. I count two so far including mine.
  • wontstoptalking, on 09/22/2008, -0/+11Well, according to the RIAA, it's not "legit." But ***** them.
  • Murdats, on 09/22/2008, -2/+12a surge in piracy signals that the market is in need of something that isn't being offered, ask the Honourable East India Company about it.

    they are offering what the people are demanding, and will keep demanding until someone comes along and offers to take their money for that service.

    and how is offering a service exploiting? unless you feel mcdonalds uses food to exploit customers, google uses their search engine to exploit customers, the shop you get your clothes from uses them to exploit you.
  • UnaClocker, on 09/22/2008, -2/+12How about something you once paid for and no longer have? Like a music CD collection lost in a fire, or natural disaster? There are tons of legit uses for TPB.
  • Merp08, on 09/22/2008, -0/+10I'm sharing about thirty albums now... simply because of this.
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -6/+16Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
  • fattehboi, on 09/22/2008, -4/+14argh me maties
  • MrDiggBury, on 09/21/2008, -6/+15TPB FTW!
  • DigitAl56K, on 09/22/2008, -1/+10And in FLAC!
  • malibusurf, on 09/22/2008, -5/+14dugg for creativity
  • kinseyincanada, on 09/22/2008, -1/+10he gets to be the first in line to ***** the RIAA, also he wins a pack of bacon.
  • Ghostalker, on 09/22/2008, -1/+9Looks like all those lawsuits and FBI raids are really paying off. Hope the RIAA goes broke and takes BayTSP, MediaDefender, and MediaSentry with them!
  • wontstoptalking, on 09/22/2008, -1/+9I do not "support" piracy (yeah, DRM can be a bitch, and all), but I do think that there are times when maybe you do not want horrible DRM (Spore) or you want to try a game out on your PC to see how well it runs if there is no demo available. I have never downloaded something I have never payed for in full eventually.
  • lemur, on 09/22/2008, -2/+10The glaring flaw in your argument is that the two things are not mutually exclusive. Nobody said people have to suffer in order to do good for others; they can benefit from ads on their website while file sharers can benefit from the service. It's not "exploitation" because the site users aren't losing anything from the ads.

    As @CalcProgrammer1 correctly points out, its a win:win situation.
  • Merp08, on 09/22/2008, -4/+11Free the information!
  • chewbie, on 09/22/2008, -3/+10I came onto the comments page just to digg up the first person who posts that :D
  • hexydes, on 09/22/2008, -0/+7Honestly, if you paid for a couch, lost it in a fire, and were able to download that exact couch again, you should be able to. There are only two entities that would not want this to be possible:

    1. Insurance companies.

    2. Couch companies.

    More universally applied, replace "couch companies" with "whatever company wants you to buy, re-buy, re-re-buy, re-re-re-buy, etc" their product. Yes, you should have to pay to replace a couch at present because it would take new physical good to make it, time and skill for the labor to make it, shipping costs to transport it, etc. However, for digital media, there are no such restrictions (other than the artificial barriers that the media industry attempts to impose upon its legitimate customers).
  • freebird09, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6Avoid torrents with little to no seeders and you should be fine.
  • mattems, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6yeah i hear sony is thinking of buying them......

    *shakes head*
  • the2989, on 09/22/2008, -3/+8Nothing can stop us, now!
  • Falcons17, on 09/22/2008, -2/+7what will happen to pirate bay when no musical artists have an incentive to produce good music because people steal their songs rather than pay for them? What will pirate bay have to offer then...a server full of "pre-pirated age" music?
  • Ne007, on 09/22/2008, -2/+7When you can get what you want, when you want it and how you want it, and without garbage, a service will be successful.

    Filesharing, I have to say, is one of the few things Human Beings have gotten right.
  • benologist, on 09/22/2008, -25/+29lol @ freedom of information. The latest movie isn't information you need to have it's entertainment you want to have.

    The admins exploit filesharing and filesharers for cash. They're not contributing to humanity they're cashing in on piracy.
  • friyaz, on 09/22/2008, -3/+7AMERICA! ***** YEAH!!!

    oh wait ...
  • inactive, on 09/22/2008, -2/+6They don't have any Men at Work albums
  • sfacets, on 09/22/2008, -1/+5Arrrrrrrrrr!
  • mattems, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3TPBFTW
  • Aiwanei, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4I only have one comment for you, look up what Philanthropic means, please. What they are doing isn't anything like philanthropy. They are running a business that makes money. They aren't do what they do for charity, so philanthropy goes out the window right there. And while linking to copyrighted material is 100% legal where they are, that still wouldn't be philanthropic in any real way. Yeah it is good they are standing up to the oppressive RIAA and MPAA, because they are just out of hand, but they aren't doing what they do for the good of humanity, they are doing it because they have created a viable business model.
  • MattBlackCat, on 09/23/2008, -0/+3The same applies for movies - the risk is too great to produce big budget films if your projected revenue streams are shrinking due to torrents, and for budget film makers the problem is accute.
  • Georgy, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4good point, too bad these dumb ***** on digg are going to digg you down
    we already know what their excuses are going to be...
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