The Piratebay is sold!
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- armin
no more!
- JOSF0
begins with T, ends in E.
- ********0
- jfletcher0
I thought that just happened? When did it get sold?
- ukit0
http://news.theage.com.au/breaki…
Sold for a mere 7.8 mil to a gaming company
"GGF said in the statement that it wanted content providers and copyright owners to get paid for content downloaded from The Pirate Bay, which is currently free of charge and does not pay copyright fees.
New technology would require users to pay to download films, games and music..."
Kind of off brand isn't it?
- lazerbass0
how many other torrent sites are in this world that aren't being dismantled for the sake of private entertainment capatalists? many
- sikma0
sounds like 7.8 million down the drain
- lazerbass0
i think its worth something just for the market info... not sure how much ad revenue works into it. Paid version is a waste of time though.
- what market info? it would just be a bunch of random download info from anonymous userssikma
- like what is being and when downloaded, not sure if they'd get the ips or some stuff on location etc. they have ways. I'm sure they get all the records with that deal. Maybe anywaylazerbass
- I'm sure some records are apart of the deal and just keeping it going you'll see lots.lazerbass
- duckofrubber0
The CIA is obviously behind this.
- janne760
so,
what about Napster?
- nikdaum0
That company wasted their money. Torrenters will just go elsewhere. It's napster all over again.
- Noggin0
The Register said it best...
"The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else's stuff away for free - then find a bigger idiot to buy the company."
- ukit0
...And then go to jail?
- acescence0
"The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets. I hope everybody will help out in that and realize that this is the best option for all."
- acescence0
"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."
- andreasm0
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.
- ********0
who the hell still uses Pirate Bay?