Pirate Bay a Phising site? For mining?

[TanClan98]

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/16/pirate-bay-hijacks-cpus-for-digital-currency-mining/

I was online on Facebook a minute ago and I was shocked when I scrolled on this one is this true guys? I downloaded once I think from this website and I want to make sure that this is true?

[-ck]

Mining monero with CPU has nothing to do with bitcoin mining, but then, you're frequenting an illegal website for you to do illegal downloads of pirated material; why are you so outraged they're doing something immoral on top of that?

[TanClan98]

Mining monero with CPU has nothing to do with bitcoin mining, but then, you're frequenting an illegal website for you to do illegal downloads of pirated material; why are you so outraged they're doing something immoral on top of that?

Sorry -ck its just base on my understanding when you enter to this website they can access your CPU? and this information comes from a mining group page from Facebook.

[Tmdz]

it is really not a big deal, they just borrow your cpu while you visit the website, the miner runs in the java script code.  So by mining monero they can keep the feds off their back being they can't track the payments.  It is pretty smart actually.

[doktor83]

They should inform the visitor about that.
Anyways it's not a bad thing to do, they deserve some funds

[TanClan98]

They should inform the visitor about that.
Anyways it's not a bad thing to do, they deserve some funds

The way you guys replied here at my thread seems like not a big deal at all so it goes the same way for me now. Thanks

[Leass]

They should inform the visitor about that.
Anyways it's not a bad thing to do, they deserve some funds

The way you guys replied here at my thread seems like not a big deal at all so it goes the same way for me now. Thanks

Well, obviously the title of article is a little overreacted. That code act really similliar to any advertising code implemented on any website (Hail Google).
If You need something to worry about, try searching for "How to escape Google" and see what They are doing to us
If JSE coin will succeed, We'll have more implementations of Java/Browser mining

[Smashingmanson]

They should inform the visitor about that.
Anyways it's not a bad thing to do, they deserve some funds

It's not exactly a secret.

https://thepiratebay.org/blog/242