Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers

[Barefootsies]

The new owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files.

Global Gaming Factory (GGF) paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site.

In an exclusive interview with the BBC, GGF's Hans Pandeya said that the only way to beat illegal file-sharing was to make something more attractive.

"We are going to set up a system where the file-sharer actually makes money," he said.

According to Mr Pandeya, GGF's chief executive, the business model for The Pirate Bay would be that it continued to be a file-sharing site. The only difference - at least in terms of content - would be that the files would be hosted legally, rather than stolen from copyright holders.

"We're a listed company so everything we do has to be legal; content providers need to be paid and have their wishes and demands met," he said.

Freebie beater

Mr Pandeya said that one of the biggest hurdles in overcoming illegal file-sharing was that there was zero cost to the users, while legitimate sites required users to pay for content. The only way to make something more attractive than free was to pay users to share files.

"More than half of all internet traffic is file sharing and P2P [peer-to-peer] traffic and buying Pirate Bay gives us one of the biggest sources of traffic.

"We can then use this massive network of file-sharers to help [internet service providers] reduce overload.

"Let's say a popular song comes out. Rather than a million downloads from a site - which would cause a considerable strain on that ISP - we can take that song and put it out on P2P.

"The copyright holder still gets paid, the users still get their file, the ISP doesn't have a million people all grabbing a file and - for the users who share that song - a payment for putting that file on the P2P network."

Mr Pandeya said that while they would be paying content providers and file sharers, there was money to be made from helping ISPs cope with overload.

"We've been working with ISPs for over a year and we can cut their costs - when the system becomes overloaded - by 90%.

"All ISPs have this problem and it is one we can fix," he said.

Computer grid

The company is also looking at harnessing the storage capacity and processing power of the file-sharing community, creating a powerful grid of P2P-linked computers.

"We're talking about next-gen file sharing so you can create revenue from storage and internet traffic optimisation," he said.

However, GGF said that the technology to drive this was still in its infancy.

"This technology is new. For now, we're outlining our intentions and asking users to have faith," said Mr Pandeya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8128551.stm

[woj]

Unless I read it wrong, it doesn't sound bad at all... they will pay people to share legal content. For example, if some new game demo comes out, piratebay will pay people to seed that content. So then game publishers will be able to share that demo for minimal cost... same with video trailers, etc...

no? did it read it wrong?

[mikesinner]

I think this is just going to make things worse for people that want to make real money.

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by mikesinner

I think this is just going to make things worse for people that want to make real money.

That was more so my take on the article.

[Lamis]

lol... and then some guys say that adult is not dead...

who will be so stupid to buy a membership if everything is for free..

check extreme-board.com and u will how much content you can get FOR FREE...

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by Lamis

check extreme-board.com and u will how much content you can get FOR FREE...

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[Davy]

And posting this anonymized information helps you how?

[Klen]

Originally Posted by Lamis

lol... and then some guys say that adult is not dead...

who will be so stupid to buy a membership if everything is for free..

check extreme-board.com and u will how much content you can get FOR FREE...

No one,now only people who need specific content which is not available on tubes/pirate sites buys porn membership.

[Carmine Raguso]

Originally Posted by Davy

And posting this anonymized information helps you how?

It's not anonymous information moron. Just run a whois on the domain name and those are your results. That was the first and last time I visit that forum. That place is sickening. No wonder why society is so fucked up.

That place should be shut down. Tons of free stolen content, rape, incest, pedo shit.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by Carmine Raguso

That was the first and last time I visit that forum. That place is sickening. No wonder why society is so fucked up.

That place should be shut down.

people say the same abo0ut GFY

[Machete_]

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[seeandsee]

Originally Posted by Carmine Raguso

It's not anonymous information moron. Just run a whois on the domain name and those are your results. That was the first and last time I visit that forum. That place is sickening. No wonder why society is so fucked up.

That place should be shut down. Tons of free stolen content, rape, incest, pedo shit.

steal and make money

[Lamis]

Originally Posted by Carmine Raguso

It's not anonymous information moron. Just run a whois on the domain name and those are your results. That was the first and last time I visit that forum. That place is sickening. No wonder why society is so fucked up.

That place should be shut down. Tons of free stolen content, rape, incest, pedo shit.

you can't fight against those sites..

extreme-board was closed down a few days ago when it was hosted in USA.. the site was then down for like 10 days... when they found another hosting, and opened the site again, in less than 24 hours, they had again 1000 active online users at all times... incredible...

surfers are not stupid.. they know where to go to get free content.. and if one of these sites go down, they will wait an dchekc daily until th site finds some hosting in "HOLLAND" to host their extreme stolen stuff and will register again to get the free content vida rapidshare or depositfiles..

what really bothers me are adult sponsors who pretend like everythng in the biz is fine and that sales are better than ever, just to make you promote them, fucking liars...

period.

[Serge Litehead]

good content delivery system is in demand, but given their name not sure how it will play out for them.

[hypedough]

I thought we weren't supposed to link to other boards? Legal or not.

[Carmine Raguso]

Originally Posted by hypedough

I thought we weren't supposed to link to other boards? Legal or not.

As long as it's nice driving traffic to another board in a "SPAMMY" kind of way I think it's fine. If it's industry news I can not see it being bannable.

Stay away from VideoSecrets though, just if anyone was looking for a cam sponsor.

[pornguy]

Originally Posted by Carmine Raguso

It's not anonymous information moron. Just run a whois on the domain name and those are your results. That was the first and last time I visit that forum. That place is sickening. No wonder why society is so fucked up.

That place should be shut down. Tons of free stolen content, rape, incest, pedo shit.

See thats the problem. You dont under stand that it is far better for the Feds to Investigate companies like people on GFY, and chase Max Hardcore, than to actually do something about a site like that.,

[Lamis]

Originally Posted by hypedough

I thought we weren't supposed to link to other boards? Legal or not.

fuck you, stupid son of a bitch...

[ztik]

P2P legal downloads is already done. Many computer games do it when they release patches or when you can download the game. They simply just host their own tracker though, its pretty easy to setup.