'Pirate' file-sharing sites seek bitcoin booty
A growing number of peer-to-peer file-sharing sites -- among them the notorious The Pirate Bay -- is starting to accept bitcoin donations from their users. The main page of The Pirate Bay's website now lists a bitcoin address, presumably for donations. OpenBitTorrent has also joined the party, as has PublicBitTorrent. Istole.it also features a bitcoin address. As of yet, though, there is no sign of bitcoin adoption at Isohunt or its sister sites. Bitcoin's perceived anonymity makes it the perfect donation mechanism for file-sharing operations, many of which track copyrighted content being....
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