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The Pirate Bay sold for $7.8 Million! (4160 reads, 24 replies, 2 years ago)
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The Pirate Bay has been purchased and is perhaps looking to go legit. Software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has shelled out approximately US$7.8 million for the site.

The acquisition appears to be the first step into turning The Pirate Bay into a legal site. The Stockholm-based piracy site is a peer-to-peer server which made video games, movies and music available for "sharing" among users. Swedish police previously raided the The Pirate Bay and those connected to the site, and the ensuing trial against the BitTorrent site's founder resulted in a guilty verdict.

According to Hans Pandeya, CEO of Sweden's Global Gaming Factory, "We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site."

Pandeya adds that while The Pirate Bay is one of the top 100 most visited sites on the entire internet, it needs to change. "In order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary," says the GGF exec. "Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it." What's more, Pandeya adds, file sharers need "faster downloads and better quality".

According to a statement from The Pirate Bay, "If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That's the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to."

Global Gaming Factory X AB will acquire The Pirate Bay this August.

Thanks to all who sent this in!


SOURCE: http://kotaku.com/5304376/the-pirate-bay-purchased




TPB might change owner

Yes, it's true.

News reached the press today in Sweden - The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB.

A lot of people are worried. We're not and you shouldn't be either!

TPB is being sold for a great bit underneath it's value if the money would be the interesting part. It's not. The interesting thing is that the right people with the right attitude and possibilities keep running the site.
As all of you know, there's not been much news on the site for the past two-three years. It's the same site essentially. On the internets, stuff dies if it doesn't evolve. We don't want that to happen.

We've been working on this project for many years. It's time to invite more people into the project, in a way that is secure and safe for everybody. We need that, or the site will die. And letting TPB die is the last thing that is allowed to happen!

If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That's the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to. And - you can now not only share files but shares with people. Everybody can indeed be the owner of The Pirate Bay now. That's awesome and will take the heat of us.

The old crew is still around in different ways. We will also not stop being active in the politics of the internets - quite the opposite. Now we're fueling up for going into the next gear. TPB will have economical muscles to let people evolve it. It will team up with great technicians to evolve the protocols. And we, the people interested in more than just technology, will have the time to focus on that. It's win-win-win.

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. Don't worry - be happy!


SOURCE: http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164



found this on kotaku when I was looking for the release date of Marvel vs Capcom 2 D:
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Legolito
So now people will actually go to cinema and watch movies there instend of downloading illegal pirated movies....
Me wanna dance!
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#1 haha nope
YES we do have a GG!
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The Pirate Bay has been purchased and is perhaps looking to go legit. Software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has shelled out approximately US$7.8 million for the site.


Looks like a bad business choice. They must have some exceptionally good ideas if they want to make the site THAT profitable. As long as free content is available other places, I don't see people paying for it. Good luck with it though.
Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.
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westamos
EPIC FAIL! everyone will just move on to another tracker that is, hum, free. such a waste of money
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ozheenmaruf
who says that their gonna charge money now ?? they'll probably just put a few adds on the site and voila they will get alllooooottt of money
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psyCrowe
like people said before.. people will just use another torrent site.

most my torrents dont even come from tpb anyway ..
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endozero
"the way we all want it" is to be left alone :D
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RIP

Never used it much, but loved it when people like Trent Reznor put their own stuff on it.
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icz.yeyet
wtf!? bad news..
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gg no re
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aimaimaim
2009-07-02 02:59, LuvU.YeYEt wrote:
wtf!? bad news..


lol leecher diay ka? haha
Blizzard in now on a DISASTER in SLOW-MOTION ..
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stroggos
waste of money, people will just use mininova instead.
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cobrastarr
Come and see bulgarian torrent sites =) It`s like google but when you find the thing you have been searching for you can download it ;D
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Genkidesuka
$7.8 million seems way too little considering how visited the site was.
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icz.yeyet
2009-07-02 05:28, aimaimaim wrote:
2009-07-02 02:59, LuvU.YeYEt wrote:
wtf!? bad news..


lol leecher diay ka? haha


a litoe.. hahaha.. i think we should use english for us not to be censored..
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tekko
will the users' ip's be revealed to cops?
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yayoyo
2009-07-02 06:27, stroggos wrote:
waste of money, people will just use mininova instead.


mininova's garbage, their searches are filtered. the piratebay was free of any control.
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Radical85
the current owner were found guilty of copyright violation and were fined approx 3-4 million USD. So i guess they really have to pay up, the only way is to sell TPB and move on to other 'project'
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laaaaaaaaaaaaame. :(
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kervinism
BS! Dis is lyk 1 of best site ever! Then boom, GG.
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