There is always a pirated content for any digital product you could think of, from courses to movies and series everything is available out there in the internet. These stuff has a bigger network then we could ever think of.
Pirated websites hosts their website in hosting providers that accepts bitcoin as their mode of money transfer in order to be anonymous and they earn by ads and by the commission of piracy bit-lockers.There are lots of ways as well through which they can earn.
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In this article we will see how these websites work in the back completely, like what are the things they do and the way they escape lawful things.
Let's understand how these networks work from a bird's eye view.
Overview
When a new movie is released the directors of that movie either releases the movie in theatre or in the streaming platforms, what these people do is that
Either they will take a recording of the movie and publish it or they will get the copy of the movie from cheap movie theatre owners where they will provide it if their are being provided enough money.
During these pandemics all the movies are getting to be released in the streaming platform and these people are so happy that they could easily get the subscription and download the movie and it is risk free and cheap.
Now the copy of the movie is in their hands but they have to publish it somewhere so that they could earn as well and also in a place where nobody could find them as well.
That's why they use two things for keeping their anonymity. The first one is Tor and the second one is Cryptocurrencies.
Anyone can use tor and Tor is amazing because it just complete makes you disappear for a moment from the tracking by these big giants.
Most of those people uses Tor for managing their sites so that in no place their IP's are getting logged, Tor makes them completely anonymous, but there are some loopholes.
We will see what are those loopholes in our upcoming post but for now just remember using tor makes you completely anonymous.
Now that they have all the movie copies what they do is that they will buy a hosting service with cryptocurrencies because the transactions made with cryptos are not trackable unlike our credit cards.
Now they got the hosting and everything but the issue is that they haven't uploaded all of the copy of movie and it may be in the range of 400 MB to 12 GB for single movie file of 2 Hours.
Now if you upload such files to hosting provider your bills gonna skyrocket so they won't anything if they did this way what they do is that.
There is two more way that is diverging now:
- Piracy Cyberlockers
- Torrents
Now I will explain in a bit what these two things mean but these are the two ways they will upload the videos then they will share the URL or magnet URL of torrent to their site.
Now if they use torrent they have to find some way to make money that's where the ads comes in and there are ad platforms which pays for the no of views and clicks you get.
And they will payback via bitcoin, so nobody will know who made the transaction and who got the money, everything is completely anonymous here.
First Way (Illegal)
This is the same way that I have mentioned in the previous sub heading but in this heading we are going to go deeper on this topic, shall we?
First things first they will install Tor browser, and what they does is that make themselves completely anonymous but as I said there are some issues in here but let's not get in here at this moment.
Now they need a place to host the website, so they will look for some hosting providers that accepts bitcoin and after they found one.
They will get the hosting and start uploading contents but uploading such big files in hosting platform is a foolishness for these people, so what they do is that either they use a cyberlocker,
A cyberlocker is a website that allows users to upload files and in return for the no of downloads they will be paid accordingly but the highest revenue comes from US.
Anyone can create an account in cyberlocker and earn from it,
They second way is that they will use torrenting for uploading their content but they earn via ad networks, just like google ads.
But it is more like an ad network which pays out via bitcoin and this way they could earn from their site and also keep their anonymity as well.
It is a double win for them and this is the way most of the pirated sites work and operate there's one more way that is being used in the recent times.
It is somewhat legal too. Let's see how this works.
Second Way (Somewhat Legal)
In the recent times there is a significant rise in the forums in internet and also the complexity of creating a forum is really became too simple for anyone to create and manage now.
Now they don't need to be anonymous for doing this method because this is different, what these people do now is that.
They will buy a hosting provider and use some open source forum options that they could easily setup and get it up and running just in an hour,
Maybe someday in our blog I will also show you how to create a forum in 20 minutes and you know I don't lie.
So now in the user registrations page they will include terms and conditions and DMCA which states that the actions of the users in this platform doesn't affect the owner of the website,
Then after all this what they do is that they make an account of their own and use Tor for posting pirated content in the forum.
Now even if there was some legal actions then they will not be caught because the user account they use for publishing pirated content.
Was using Tor while publishing so they do not have any worries and if there was legal actions the possible thing would be to remove the content and the user from the forum.
Which means they will create an another user and start publishing from that account.
I hope you get the point that I am trying to say over here, these days piracy has became really unavoidable and really distracting.
Conclusion
The final conclusion that we should draw from this post is that the pirated content are most likely someone's hardwork.
When you get it for free like that they will really be financially setback because they wouldn't be able to earn anything from it.
Because these pirated people just take away the money without doing all that person's hardwork, So just try and reduce the usage of piracy in our lives.
Thank you have a nice day, Oh one more thing.
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