The Piratebay is sold!
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When the court-case was going on they could use the "we're a search engine - nothing else" view to their advantage (didn't work in the end, but hey). In business terms it doesn't really work as well. There is nothing there to develop and monetize.
If you remove the cult of TPB, the political agenda and the nerd super stardom of the founders - what remains? A mediocre search engine. That's all.
The guys (the 3 founders) are some of the most eltist and arrogant people I've ever read about. Mocking people for their stupidity, yet at the same time - when things heat up, they're like little mamas boys who want support of their peers. Martyrs when it's needed and then all of a sudden - this news. Complete sell-out.
The amount of space they get in the media is ridiculous. Compare their shit site to a really good service - like Spotify - which makes everyone happy (users, artists, labels, publishers) and solves problems rather than creating them. That deserves attention.
This will go down down down.