[absentbird]

Well Wikileaks didn't have copyright infringement claims against it and it has suffered massive blows to funding and traffic.

TPB exists because people care about it. People care about it because it provides something relevant to them.

[VMG]

Then why does TPB mention Syria and North Korea at all?

Why not be honest?

"We exist because people want Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 for free and we can help them"

[Andrew_Quentin]

Did you wonder why people from Syria and North Korea might actually want to visit that website?

I found the figure mentioned of 100 visitors from North Korea daily pretty amazing to be honest. I checked my own site stats and though there are visitors from 183 countries not one is from North Korea.

Pirate bay is not just movies. You can download plenty of books from it for free, university textbooks, philosophy, whatever.

[burgerbrain]

"Then why does TPB mention Syria and North Korea at all?"

Because they care about that.