How much does it cost to run a site that deals with pirated content? (leminal.space)

submitted 11 months ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Gnarly-Repacks is requesting donations for the renewal bill for their site and I know FitGirl sporadically makes requests for donations as well. It makes me curious what range of expenses do sites like these incur and what they are.

I do vaguely recall The Pirate Bay 2013 documentary TPB AFK talking a bit about their revenue but I don't know if they talked much about their expenses.

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[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Everything is way overpriced

Why would somebody need to pay $10 for an email?

Why would one hire a developer when you're a developer yourself?

Why would one use amazon buckets when they are overpriced?

Domain names from ~$15, since when?

And the offshore servers, you can find those for even cheaper and more powerful than $5 (or many cores and 16gb ram for $5)

Also, why would you pay for jenkins when you can host it or something similar?