{"id":611,"date":"2007-08-02T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2007-08-02T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T18:44:08","slug":"file-sharing-a-giant-shoe-silently-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"File-sharing: A giant shoe silently drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this (admittedly unsubstantiated) <a href=\"http:\/\/rixstep.com\/1\/20060708,00.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a>, The Pirate Bay is raking in something like $25,000 per day on advertising revenue, or like $9 million a year. (Their math, not mine, or maybe I saw those numbers on Digg.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. This is the strand that some intrepid young reporter could pull, methinks, to unravel the whole mess*&#8211;this is NOT just a fun hobby project to thumb one&#8217;s nose at the MAN of corporate content conglomerates.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the money. It&#8217;s always about the money.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Please do not actually DO such a thing and expose this fine, fine establishment. I need to steal crap off the web like everyone else.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this (admittedly unsubstantiated) story, The Pirate Bay is raking in something like $25,000 per day on advertising revenue, or like $9 million a year. (Their math, not mine, or maybe I saw those numbers on Digg.) Anyway. This is the strand that some intrepid young reporter could pull, methinks, to unravel the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-movies","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}