Well if people have enough money to donate hundreds of dollars to each month, its their choice to do it. Remember that for a lot of people this is their hobby. They enjoy doing it, and probably spend hours on a site every day reading posts chatting on irc, and downloading files. And its the same with any hobby, if you have a hobby you enjoy you do not mind spending some money on it. It goes for everything form collecting stamps to going to the gym, what ever your hobby is you usually spend money on it.
And if no one ever donated there will not have been many torrentsites thats for sure. And why is it ok pay for newsgroup access and not willingly donate to a torrent site?
And i really doubt news groups have the kind of pretimes that some of the torrentsite does.
For some people might do it for the star, but for others do it because they enjoy and appreciate the time and effort the mods and uploaders put into the site, and what to make sure that owner of the site is sitting alone with the bill for thousands of dollars just to keep the site running at a decent speed.
Edit; and for the record im not affiliated with any torrentsites nor have a ever donated any money to them. But i bow down and respect the people are a making sure my favorite site is here the next month.
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