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But how much money are we actually talking about? Scientists from Madrid; Darmstadt, Germany; and Eugene, Oregon took a closer look at thousands of torrents on The Pirate Bay and Mininova in and , and their analysis revealed that a small fraction of users is responsible for 67 percent of the content on these torrent sites. So who are these folks?
Thirty percent of all torrents analyzed for the study were spam associated with anti-piracy agencies and others who tried to get people to download unwanted content through simple bait-and-switch tactics.
Another 30 percent of the torrents came from publishers that had financial motives. Some were promoting private torrent sites that finance themselves through ads or donations, and others were simply promoting web sites and services — for example, by advertising porn subscriptions through adult movie torrents.
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The scientists noticed some interesting patterns among these profit-driven publishers, noting, for example, that 40 percent of the people advertising private torrent sites publish content in languages other than English.
Researchers even ran into a church that used torrent piracy to promote its site.
There are still plenty of users who upload torrents just out of the goodness of their hearts, but uploaders with commercial incentives seem to be much more active, uploading a great number of, and much more popular, torrents. Fifty-two percent of uploaders of a random group sampling were altruistic, but this group was only responsible for The study points out that some publishers with commercial interests seem to make some good money with piracy: These estimates have to be taken with a grain of salt, if only for the fact that porn and torrent sites tend to generate much less income through advertising than other sites.
The conclusion drawn from these numbers is also debatable: That could be the case. Or maybe those top uploaders would simply be replaced on no time by others out to make a quick buck. Tags BitTorrent Copyright Piracy Torrent sites.
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