Eli5 How are websites able to provide pirated content for free? Doesn’t it cost money to host the content, program and maintain the site etc?
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Pirate Bay and other torrenting sites are not ‘providing’ pirated content. TPB does not have a server that has a copy of HBO’s The Last of Us on it that you download directly from TPB.
What TPB does is connects random people together. Person A say’s ‘I have The Last of Us on my computer’ and Person B say’s ‘I’m looking for The Last of Us.’ TPB then connects these two people together and Person B downloads The Last of Us directly from Person A. TPB is not providing the pirated content.
This is why it’s called *peer to peer* sharing. It’s two random people (peers) sharing the files with each other.
TPB keeps the lights on by selling ads to advertisers.
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