Re: The Pirate Bay's website steals your CPU Power to mine Monero
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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"This is only a test. We really want to get rid of all the ads. But we also need enough money to keep the site running," says The Pirate Bay.
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https://steemit.com/monero/@bad.r2017/the-pirate-bay-s-website-steals-your-cpu-power-to-mine-monero
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.
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...
They SHOULD HAVE told people about it though...
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.