Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4chan)?

Re:Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4c... by mishmash on Saturday August 14, 2010 @02:00AM (#1603009)

4chan likely makes much more money than is reported.. with moot putting forward this broke-kid image, I would think he becomes a much smaller target for the various entities, laws, and copyrights they trample on.

It's sort of like how the IFPI used the "profitable" motive in it's arguments against the Pirate Bay.

Poor people make poor lawsuit targets.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4c... by joshu on Saturday August 14, 2010 @03:12PM (#1603838)

This is not correct. It is very expensive to host, which chews up the profits.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4c... by fragmede on Saturday August 14, 2010 @02:59AM (#1603069)

Arguable, poor people make great targets because they're less likely to be able to defend themselves.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4c... by mishmash on Saturday August 14, 2010 @03:13AM (#1603081)

Ah an RIAA rep, welcome to Hacker News. :)

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Re:Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4c... by pinksoda on Saturday August 14, 2010 @03:03AM (#1603072)

Those people are "judgment proof" because even if you get a judgment that says they owe you a billion dollars, you'll never collect a dime.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4c... by fragmede on Sunday August 15, 2010 @11:39AM (#1605281)

That's step 1.

Step 2 is using the billion dollar judgement as a precedent when suing people with a little bit of money.

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