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100 MILLION DOWNLOADS

On August 5th we surpassed 100,000,000 file downloads.

Monthly page views are averaging 15 million.

10 million unique users per month are using the site.

Google Adsense revenue is $25,000/month.

Subscription revenue is $5,000/month.

Running costs are around $2,000/month.

Team size: 1.

Monthly profit: $28,000/month.

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    What kind of content do users store?

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      Everything! There doesn't seem to be any particular type of file that is most common.

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        hi ryan,
        how do you prevent piracy?

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          Well there's no problem with users backing up their data, even if that data is copyrighted, it's only an issue if/when they start sharing. We have automated jobs that check for DMCA requests and automatically remove files that are violating our terms.

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