Comments on: NBC Criticizes Piracy, But Advertises on The Pirate Bay?

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

it is probably an automated script that takes the content of the search box and matches it up and generates ads kind of like google does.

By: JosefStalin

JosefStalin — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Yeah I was going to the same thing as ejonesss here. Must be a slow news day. What would Benjamin Franklin make of this?

By: ourthing2

ourthing2 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Never saw these ads on TPB before……

BTW: I have adblock plus on my firefox

By: invarbrass

invarbrass — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

By: Gamer8585

Gamer8585 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

As deliciously ironic as this is I have to agree with enjonesss.

From what I understand web advertising is contracted out and the ad company displays their ads on websites that they have made deals with. The ad company made a deal with NBC (among other companies) to sell ads and it bought ad space on The Pirate Bay (among other websites) and then it let its automated context sensitive scripts do the rest.

I would still love to be the one to throw this in the face of those neophobic NBC execs. Truly it would make a happy new year for me.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I don’t understand the coherency.They advertise on Google Ads for free Office episodes so whats wrong with it?This has nothing to do with piracy as they own this series.

By: flyingrhino

flyingrhino — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

If there’s no bread eat cake ….
If there’s no demand for corn grow biodiesel.

By: barrakuda

barrakuda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

regardless the ad could get someone to watch the show online instead of downloading it which isn’t a bad idea.