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As you may already know, The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular torrent and file-sharing websites in the world.
The Pirate Bay's team has recently been caught taking advantage of its website popularity, and trying to make money by secretly injecting a Javascript code in it, to make its visitors generate (Mine) a cryptocurrency called Monero for the team.
After this issue was reported, The Pirate Bay issued a statement on its website saying that, it was only a test for just 24 hours :




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I saw this in the news and thought it was very cheeky. I am all for web hosts to try new ways to monetise/finance their sites.. and if this method involves crypto currencies then all the better.

They SHOULD HAVE told people about it though...

I think if pirate bay announces this first before implementing it would have generated a positive feedback. Most of people who downloads on pirate bay knows that the owner needs money to to keep running so if they knew that pirate bay would use their cpu so it can maintain their service I think it will be ok to them since it is like giving something in return for the free service that they get.

I dont think they would receive any positive feedback from taking advantage from us in such cheeky way

Hmm.. its a malware or trojan that exploited Window users to mine XMR. It doesn't look good in their images if you are going to ask me. But they don't have image to protect in the first place that's why they take advantage of every unsuspecting victim who uses their website.


If they told people that then would have lost alot of "customers" and revenues. Well that's the price to have to pay for downloading pirated copies of movies or software. Good thing I no longer using their site. Its one thing they let people downloaded pirated copy, but another thing if you are stealing in return.

I agree if they informed their visitors about this maybe they will be able to provide good explanation for such action, they already have an established name
and giving enough info about this will let the people/ visitors to understand how it will help the site to continue surviving as they have knowledge that in
order to facilitate funding is a must in every website that has been existing, another open idea for crypto industry.

I saw it on the site right after I went there. So I don't think they wanted to keep it as a secret. And I have no problem with it, the more people and companies, sites will use cryptocurrencies the better.

as long as they tell people i'm ok with it. it's a far more honest way of monetizing than serving up ads that drive you crazy.

It is actually a good thing that they are trying to find ways in monetizing the site. What they just failed to do is inform people about what they are doing. People go to TPB for one thing, to download stuff that is ripped off from others. They do not have a membership system so putting ads on the site was their way to monetize. Now, if they just launch a disclaimer that they want to mine Monero, all the better. It can fund for their servers and keep the site running.

but until yesterday the code is removed in the piratebay site.

What can we say, Pirates always be Pirates.
Everybody tryes to earn money how he can.

Very worried, this should not happen.

TPB should provide users with specific information to let users know.

this is a crime, maybe TPB does this to add a large operating costs.

i find it kind of hard to sympathise with anyone who gets their ass felt by visiting the piratebay. in case you hadn't noticed people going there are breaking a few laws themselves.

This has been done before, and stealing people's CPU time has never really been accepted as a valid way to make money for a site.  Then again, it's not like downloading the ads isn't stealing your bandwidth.  You can block both ads and scripts these days, so if you really don't want to participate, you don't have to.  Sites should be up front about mining though.

stealing is stealing..and nobody accept stealing..

nice! been seeding some files particularly some ISO files and yet they were that cheeky. i wonder how much they got from it after 24 hours. or was it true that its just up for 24 hours. probably not earning much this time but weren't the money they got of all the ads popping every time people click a page?

Apparently, the idea is catching on.  I noticed today that a fairly popular faucet, MoonbitCoin, now has an option to allow website users to contribute their CPU power to their mining efforts for a bonus on their faucet payout.  But they are upfront about it, giving the user the option to turn it on/off, so that's fine with me.... a good way to handle it. 

You are re-posting the news i already posted with a STEEM link to make money.
I am tempted to report this as spam..

:D True.   Would rather see them do that than show adds or popups.

I also love pirate bay when download torrent, I think it is there way to keep there website running because some torrent site are down and the team are hunting down by the NBI! for me I think it is fair enough when try downloading there file and they also used your cpu to mine momero!
Just try to install anti-malware in order to make your pc free from them!.. ;)

wtf thats fucking smart. i would support them whole heartedly for the good job that they are doing.

Monero is a new way of monetization web sites.
Its better then annoying ads. I never click on shitty ads so this is a win - win style monetization

Stealing CPU power is OK with me, I hate it when site injecting spyware and adware. Expecting to give something back from a site like this.

They should have informed their users. What they did is huge and probably illegal!

I wonder what will happen this time with pirate-bay.

I am not a tech by background and not very tech savvy. But after reading about this information I have become scared and will be more cautious in the future when accessing sensitive information from my laptop from where I trade or use personal information. THis is not good. I guess time to start buying originals again has come!

as far as i understood from the real news, it was not exactly stealing anything. it was an option or more of a test to see if they can replace their advertisements (which are intrusive too) with this in order to be able to cover the costs of server,... and earn some money.
apparently the donation method doesn't work for them. and with the closure of nearly every other torrent website PB remains the only one standing with a huge traffic.

I don't know what happened, but accroding to the above, it seems to be an invasion of personal privacy, i can understand why they did this, but i wish this will never happen to me, , what will they do next for other reason?

Wow, that's innovative I would say!! Between I thought piratebay was long dead? Wasn't it banned in most countries.

Honesty is still the best policy, if they told their users that they are testing it in the first , their users will understand it because they are also a big help to their users, or they can hold a poll if their users will allow them to use coin hive to monetize their website

Well no ! At least tell the visitors what they're doing and let them have the option to like toogle it on and off.
Exploiting and using people's cpus isn't acceptable under any measures.

Can someone explain how this goes ? How is a website able to use someone's cpu that easy ? How can they use the browser to get more cpu usage ? It just doesn't get through my mind.

AND if they were able to do it, I'm sure hundreds if not thousands of websites will be able too in the coming days. There must be a solution to this. I'd really love to get a technical reply to how they did it.

There were news about it in my country and everyone was going like yea its fine how much i dl from them they should earn a bit from me or like good luck mining anything on my budget pc ;D

I think its ok as long as they openly advise users that they are doing it, and even better giver the user the option to switch it off.

I’m really interested if this is a viable option for adult video websites as a supplement or alternative to ads https://tubeace.com/will-mining-cryptocurrency-porn-tube-sites-way-future/

If there is prior notice I think it is acceptable, but the time to open the page is not fixed, is the reward really enough?