October 17, 2005: The U.S. Department of Justice fined Samsung nearly $300M for memory price fixing within the U.S.

Feb. 7, 2007: U.S. government fined Samsung for $90M for memory chip price fixing for violations in 2006.

Jan.15, 2008: Samsung’s offices in Korea were raided after evidence
showed that a slush fund was used to bribe government officials and
other business leaders.

July 16 2008, Samsung chairman, Lee Kun-He was found guilty in Seoul
of financial wrongdoing and tax evasion. Despite prosecutor request of
seven years in prison, sentence was reduced to three years followed by a
pardon by the South Korean Government in 2009 to allow him to help with
its successful bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. He is now a member
of the International Olympic Committee and this ‘pardoned criminal’
returned as Samsung’s Chairman in March 2010.

May 19, 2010: The EU Commission fined Samsung for being part of a
cartel that shared confidential information and fixed memory chip prices
(along with eight other firms).

Nov. 1, 2011: The Korean Fair Trade Commission fined Samsung for
being part of a cartel that fixed prices and reduced output for TFT-LCD
screens between 2001 and 2006.

March 15, 2012: The Korean Fair Trade Commission fined Samsung for a
mobile phone price fixing scheme and consumer fraud whereby consumers
would be paying more than what the discounted prices advertised.

July 25, 2012: Magistrate Grewal informs the jury that they could
take into account that “spoliation” of evidence occurred when Samsung
destroyed evidence that could have been used in the Apple lawsuit;
Samsung had a policy of automatically deleting emails that were two
weeks old and should have suspended that policy between August 2010
(when Apple informed Samsung of patent infringement) and April 2011
(when Apple initiated the lawsuit).

August 24, 2012 a jury returned a verdict finding Samsung had
willfully infringed on Apple’s design and utility patents and had also
diluted Apple’s trade dresses related to the iPhone. But Samsung
continues to fight the ruling, and continues in their copying behavior.

Dec 2012: EU issued a Statement of Objections (SO) against Samsung
for abusing its Standard-Essential Patents in not providing FRAND rates.
Samsung withdrew all SEP-based injunction requests against Apple in
Europe days before the SO was issued, but to no avail.

April. 2013, Samsung is accused of and admits hiring people in
several countries to falsify reports of HTC phones “constantly crashing”
and posting fake benchmark reviews.

October 2013 Samsung in confirmed reports from independent and
objective testing, found to be intentionally falsifying performance
benchmarks of its flagship products: the Galaxy S4 and Note 3.

It’s one of the most visited websites in the world. It doesn’t matter what the site is used for; last I checked copyright has nothing to do with who can and can not advertise on a website. So you and these anti piracy companies can whine all you want but the fact remains it’s a perfectly legal, legitimate way to reach your consumers. Of course your beloved hollywood is too stupid to try it themselves.

“So Samsung essentially tries to profit off of piracy in various ways, including advertising. When they get caught out like this they really need to take a better position, because they do tend to look bad.”

Samsung is doing exactly what every company tries to do: make money. Are they breaking the law by advertising on the pirate bay? No. No ones forcing you to buy samsung products. If you don’t like it then start a boycott. The rest of us will laugh in your face because we don’t care.

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