Re:The Marketplace (Score 1)

What strikes me is that the target market in the Pirate Bay's case is (according to the **AA spin) a bunch of freeloaders and pirates who won't pay for anything, so why would advertisers pay good money to access that market?

Most of the advertising on TPB, if you haven't noticed, isn't for things that can be pirated or freeloaded easily, if at all, but rather for services like web hosting, personal ads, vacations, weight loss plans, etc. etc. Unless you've come up with a way to download a torrent of any of these (web hosting apps don't count, since even a huge majority of semi-tech-savvy users like those on TPB don't have a decent box and/or connection to host on), it sounds like the freeloading quality of the audience doesn't have any impact on the result.