Comment by munchinator

To make it an apples to apples comparison, look at submissions where the link submitted is the retail link to the IP. For example, look at all the book link submissions on AMZN...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=amazon.com

None of these have the Pirate Bay or Library Genesis or Anna's Archive or the equivalent as the top comment.

Compare that to...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com

And almost all of these have an archived version as the top comment.