r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.today, ban site

Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by eyya on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:49AM (#50284990)

30 million is on the scale of Pirate Bay, slightly less than Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload (150M), and 3–4 orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook. So yes, by my definition, archive.org is a small, indie project as well still operating out of someone’s garage.

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by consumer451 on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:11PM (#50305988)

How could running TPB come close to approaching even 1M per year, much less 30M? My estimate for TPB is far below 100k/year. That's an indie project. 30M per year is real money that requires constant investment. Investors like ROI.

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Re:r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.toda... by eyya on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:28PM (#50321621)

This information came to light thanks to the Swedish judicial system: TPB’s revenue was $4–5 million per year, plus something on Bitcoin's grow as they were early adopters. Thus, archive.org falls somewhere between TPB and Megaupload. I agree that archive.today is perhaps just a little smaller than archive.org, but in any case, it’s in the same “indie league”, not Facebook.

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