How do sites that host illegal downloads manage to stay in business?

We all already know the deal, thus this is not a question about legality or ethics. I would just like to know, how do sites that brazenly offer copyrighted material and/or the torrents to said material stay in business?

Several ways.

1. Many of the sites are hosted in a country where the copyright laws are not as stringent, such as Sweden.

2. Many do not offer the files themselves, but instead what are called "torrents." These are very small pieces of information, and contain none of the copyrighted material.

3. Some of them maintain several servers, and move around quite often. They are often not on the same domain for more than three months.

so by learning this you wanted to start this kind of business.even legal Microsoft uses more methods to earn more by tricking the poor users of their own products.it is all in the business,legal or illegal,they just earn until they get caught.the pity is there is no one to catch these as all are busy with their business which is illegal or legal.

it could be because some hosts don't check every website on their system for copyright unless they receive a complain.

also if the host's servers be in a country that doesn't enforce copyright, websites won't face warnings and shut downs

this is because they ad. that they share files and this makes it so they can't be stopped..and they stay in business because so many people use these sites making them more powerful.illegal downloads will never stop.

these sites that host links to files that hold US copyrights are often hosted in countries that do not share the same copyrights as the country they were created in.

In other words, Thepratebay.org can post thousands of music cd's and movies on their trackers for people to download, because the Swedish government does not currently have any laws in place that protect copyrights.

Same thing as websites that allow you to watch entire seasons of shows and full feature length movies.

As laws advance you will see fewer and fewer of these sites, but until then its fair game for them to post virtually anything they feel like!

Since the torrent sites are not actually hosting the illegal content, only providing a means of communication between which illegal downloaders can share content, they are staying on the edge of the very thin legal line.

They choose hosting providers that are not strict about what content is posted, or they simply own their own web servers.

Revenue is generated by ads and donations.

Because as those sites state they do not host the files. The people who are sharing the files are the ones who are hosting them. The websites only carry the links to the files (the actual torrent file) and therefore are not in possession of the copyrighted material. Pointing somebody to a store where they can get a gun (torrent file)is not a crime so you are not responsible if they go and get it and commit a crime(download the file)

Another thing to consider is that not all of the material on these sites is illegal. example: Many sites host links to Linux distros to take a load off the original server and spread the bandwidth usage around.