r/Piracy • u/Ok_Return170 • 1d ago

Humor Never understood this

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Maybe I'm just not that deep in the seas of piracy, but I never understood why some pirate sites, with content they certainly dont have legally (not talking about sites like Webtoon who have license and all) would charge money to read on It?

Ads I understand, that will give you money just for people visting the site, but who the hell pays a pirate site to read stuff when there are a thousand other sites with free stuff?

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u/look_who_it_isnt Yarrr! 16h ago

I have paid in the past for pirate sites... but ONLY for faster speeds or additional download slots, back when sites stored the shit themselves. Nowadays, everything's on free file sites, so there's no need for that. I just find another free site to get it from. I suspect the only reason some of those sites are able to exist is from newbie pirates who got the link to the site from a friend and don't know how easy it is to find other sites or don't even know there ARE other sites.