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LadyMischief · 06-30-2009, 08:29 AM

Guess they were tired of the legal drama or something....finally figured it was time to make money?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8127050.stm

bloggerz · 06-30-2009, 08:50 AM

"Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site from its founders. "

woj · 06-30-2009, 08:56 AM

interesting

sugardaddy · 06-30-2009, 09:03 AM

Fuck File Sharing!

Iron Fist · 06-30-2009, 09:06 AM

Hehe.... and like every other pirate out there... they are sellouts. Funny stuff. Pirate Bay sucked anyways.

NinjaSteve · 06-30-2009, 09:09 AM

I think that's about 7.7million USD.
Half in $, Half in shares. So less tha $1mil each in money.

That's a lot of money, but for how popular it is and how much traffic it gest, I guess it's not worth that much in the end.

Babaganoosh · 06-30-2009, 09:11 AM

Hah! That's great. All the kids and the internet nerds who think everything digital should be free have just realized that their heroes and saviors were sellouts. Where are their arrogant attitudes now that they had their asses handed to them in court.

StaceyJo · 06-30-2009, 09:19 AM

Good news then.

wargames · 06-30-2009, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Hah! That's great. All the kids and the internet nerds who think everything digital should be free have just realized that their heroes and saviors were sellouts. Where are their arrogant attitudes now that they had their asses handed to them in court.

Right on the money

maxjohan · 06-30-2009, 09:22 AM

Arrogant humans come up with yet a new excuse. That's how they keep themself up.

But hopefully some of them see that light one day. That they are barely dry between their own ears.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Hah! That's great. All the kids and the internet nerds who think everything digital should be free have just realized that their heroes and saviors were sellouts. Where are their arrogant attitudes now that they had their asses handed to them in court.

DaddyHalbucks · 06-30-2009, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Hah! That's great. All the kids and the internet nerds who think everything digital should be free have just realized that their heroes and saviors were sellouts. Where are their arrogant attitudes now that they had their asses handed to them in court.

There was never any doubt in my mind.

HomerSimpson · 06-30-2009, 12:58 PM

now it will be easier to sue them since they are owned by registered company...

seeandsee · 06-30-2009, 01:01 PM

homer you think its that easy?

czarina · 06-30-2009, 01:08 PM

enough to pay for their legal costs?

Dirty Dane · 06-30-2009, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HomerSimpson

now it will be easier to sue them since they are owned by registered company...

Or.. it will be easier to have infringements removed.

mynameisjim · 06-30-2009, 01:26 PM

The more I look into this it looks a little strange.

The company barely has enough money to acquire TPB and they need to secure financing. Will they really be able to get that to buy an operation that was just proven to be illegal.

hmmmm.

Snake Doctor · 06-30-2009, 01:28 PM

Why did they buy it? Couldn't they have just timeshifted it?

kirupai · 06-30-2009, 01:29 PM

Here you go...

To clarify a bit..
TPB has been owned by a company for the last years since the raid so nothing there will really change except the names of the owners. The talk about TPB are going to be a pay site is wrong, the CEO that said that does not know what he is talking about.
Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents. This setup will be practically impossible to take down or find anyone liable to sue.
The 3d party company services will have APIs, so you can on your blog or whatever have your own small torrent listings just as you now pull in twitter feeds. remember how the twitter design totally havoced the iranian attempts to block it as ppl just used another side that pulled in the feeds and read it there instead? well that goes for torrents and TPB to.
All in all, this is not the end of the world as some are seeing it but a rather interesting technical improvement.
And dont worry, not a dime will go to the media industries spectrial prize money what i know of but a really nice fund for doing cool stuff.
/krs - co.founder of TPB and PB, not involved in TPB anymore and have no stake in any cash.

From http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...he_pirate_bay/

Davy · 06-30-2009, 01:47 PM

You know what could happen here? The DOMINO effect!
Most of the torrents contain multiple trackers.
If one of them goes down, the others have to cope with more traffic.
It has happened before: if one of the biggest torrent sites goes down, the others struggle and might follow.

kane · 06-30-2009, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kirupai

Here you go...

To clarify a bit..
TPB has been owned by a company for the last years since the raid so nothing there will really change except the names of the owners. The talk about TPB are going to be a pay site is wrong, the CEO that said that does not know what he is talking about.
Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents. This setup will be practically impossible to take down or find anyone liable to sue.
The 3d party company services will have APIs, so you can on your blog or whatever have your own small torrent listings just as you now pull in twitter feeds. remember how the twitter design totally havoced the iranian attempts to block it as ppl just used another side that pulled in the feeds and read it there instead? well that goes for torrents and TPB to.
All in all, this is not the end of the world as some are seeing it but a rather interesting technical improvement.
And dont worry, not a dime will go to the media industries spectrial prize money what i know of but a really nice fund for doing cool stuff.
/krs - co.founder of TPB and PB, not involved in TPB anymore and have no stake in any cash.

From http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...he_pirate_bay/

So to me it seems the people that bought it are saying they are going to make it "legit" and compensate those that have their stuff downloaded, but now the site owners themselves seem to be saying this is just a move to make it harder to take down. I wonder who is telling the truth.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 06-30-2009, 03:23 PM

You're all fucking retarded if you think this makes fuck all for a difference in the world of digital piracy...

Bjorn Andersen · 06-30-2009, 04:19 PM

Old news , thread here

http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/913377-thepiratebay-org-sold-50-million-sek.html

wizzart · 06-30-2009, 04:51 PM

thepiratebay.org

that or something else?

brassmonkey · 06-30-2009, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sugardaddy

Fuck File Sharing!

sharing is caring

STAROTICA · 06-30-2009, 08:50 PM

yo ho ho.....

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NinjaSteve Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 11,089	I think that's about 7.7million USD. Half in $, Half in shares. So less tha $1mil each in money. That's a lot of money, but for how popular it is and how much traffic it gest, I guess it's not worth that much in the end. __________________ ... Last edited by NinjaSteve; 06-30-2009 at 09:11 AM..

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06-30-2009, 01:26 PM	#16
mynameisjim Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,985	The more I look into this it looks a little strange. The company barely has enough money to acquire TPB and they need to secure financing. Will they really be able to get that to buy an operation that was just proven to be illegal. hmmmm. __________________ jim (at) amateursconvert . com Amateurs Convert

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06-30-2009, 01:29 PM	#18
kirupai Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: California Posts: 894	Here you go... To clarify a bit.. TPB has been owned by a company for the last years since the raid so nothing there will really change except the names of the owners. The talk about TPB are going to be a pay site is wrong, the CEO that said that does not know what he is talking about. Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents. This setup will be practically impossible to take down or find anyone liable to sue. The 3d party company services will have APIs, so you can on your blog or whatever have your own small torrent listings just as you now pull in twitter feeds. remember how the twitter design totally havoced the iranian attempts to block it as ppl just used another side that pulled in the feeds and read it there instead? well that goes for torrents and TPB to. All in all, this is not the end of the world as some are seeing it but a rather interesting technical improvement. And dont worry, not a dime will go to the media industries spectrial prize money what i know of but a really nice fund for doing cool stuff. /krs - co.founder of TPB and PB, not involved in TPB anymore and have no stake in any cash. From http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...he_pirate_bay/

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