Pirate Bay sold

**Chewy** · 30 Jun 2009, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Pirate Bay snapped up by Swedish software firm

http://www.reuters.com/article/inter...55T1QF20090630

**admin** · 30 Jun 2009, 10:26 PM

Well that's a bit of a shock. This is what the new owners have said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Global Gaming Chief Executive Hans Pandeya

We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site

Sounds like the end of TPB to me. Shame.

soup · 1 Jul 2009, 05:10 AM

April 1, has come & gone, right? Or is this going to keep going until next April 1?

rago88 · 1 Jul 2009, 06:08 AM

update:
this is latest scoop.....

.Sorry for thread jacking, but the knee-jerk reaction on Digg is astoundingly embarrassing. Here's Krs's (co-founder of TPB) post on Reddit regarding the situation:

"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."

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Wombler · 1 Jul 2009, 04:43 PM

Very interesting news rago88.

I've seen this story posted on several forums but that's the first I've heard of the official response.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Wombler

**admin** · 12 Jul 2009, 04:10 PM

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=91621

1 Jul 2009, 05:10 AM	#3
soup Just Trying To Help Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Canada Region 1 Posts: 7,517	April 1, has come & gone, right? Or is this going to keep going until next April 1? __________________

1 Jul 2009, 06:08 AM	#4
rago88 Digital Video Technician Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bucks County, Pa Posts: 492	5 things to know about Pirate-bay sale.. update: this is latest scoop..... .Sorry for thread jacking, but the knee-jerk reaction on Digg is astoundingly embarrassing. Here's Krs's (co-founder of TPB) post on Reddit regarding the situation: "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." [... Last edited by rago88; 1 Jul 2009 at 09:39 AM

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Wombler Affable Wanderer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 159	Very interesting news rago88. I've seen this story posted on several forums but that's the first I've heard of the official response. Thanks for clearing that up. Wombler

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