The End of The Pirate Bay?
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 12:32 p.m. - Subject: The End of The Pirate Bay? |
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This may be old news but I just found out that The Pirate Bay will probably be changing owners soon. And the new owners may start charging a monthly fee for people to use the site.
Link to the blog announcing all of this:
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 12:42 p.m. - Subject: |
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Wow this would be terrible terrible news, the amount of people that use TPB allows it the downloads to go so quickly. I have a demonoid account but its not as good as TPB in my honest opinion.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 1:00 p.m. - Subject: |
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I’m the same way. I’ve had an account on Demonoid for a couple months but usually I go to TBP first. Stuff is generally faster that way. But as much as I like it, I won’t pay for it.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 1:11 p.m. - Subject: |
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Yeah that ruined my day when I started reading about that. The last time I used TPB was about a week ago, but it made me kinda nervous and I don’t think I’ll use it again. :`(
On the bright side: If it wasn’t for illegal downloading I wouldn’t have a retirement plan at all. I’m hoping that by the time I’m ready to stop rolling I’ll be able to snag a cell in a nice minimum security prison because of all the DLing I’ve done.
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Power Egg
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YIM
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 2:28 p.m. - Subject: |
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They said that about Facebook, and probably many other sites. I doubt they would do it because the whole Idea of torrenting is to not spend money. I myself would go back to Mininova. Or, like everyone else just use Google and put torrent after whatever I want.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 2:32 p.m. - Subject: |
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If alot of the content on the site is illegal.... then wouldn’t it be reallt bad for the owners to charge users for content the site owners... don’own?
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 2:59 p.m. - Subject: |
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That’s really old; the Pirate Bay was supposed to be sold this August. Last I heard the deal fell through.
And it wouldn’t be a torrent site anymore if it was sold.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 3:56 p.m. - Subject: |
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This is really old news. This already happened. TPB has their new owners now.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 4:24 p.m. - Subject: |
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^wrong.
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Normal Egg
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YIM
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 4:50 p.m. - Subject: |
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^Totally
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 4:57 p.m. - Subject: |
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^What they said.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 5:01 p.m. - Subject: |
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Yeah old news.happened ages ago.It is some German company that bought it.
This is kinda new news though..
Quote: The world’s most high-profile file-sharing website the Pirate Bay faces a new volley of legal action.
Thirteen Hollywood production companies have filed a new lawsuit to try to get the website shut down.
In April the site’s founders were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages.
However, the site has continued to operate, allowing users to share copyrighted films, TV and music.
"We have filed a complaint against The Pirate Bay because they have not stopped their activities after they were sentenced to prison," the studios’ lawyer Monique Wadsted told AFP.
The lawsuit has been brought by Columbia Pictures, Disney Enterprises, Universal Studios and 10 other firms, many of which were due to receive damages form the April settlement.
The Pirate Bay was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals.
Millions of files are exchanged using the service every day.
No copyright content was hosted on The Pirate Bay’s web servers; instead it hosted links to TV, film and music files held on its users’ computers.
Following the most recent lawsuit, the site was bought by Global Gaming Factory (GGF) for 60m kronor (£4.7m) who intend to turn the site into a legal, pay service.
The new owners have outlined a "give and take" model which pays users for sharing their resources.
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'of the Universe'
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 7:01 p.m. - Subject: |
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Fuck the RIAA.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Aug 06, 2009 2:39 a.m. - Subject: |
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Damn right Gimpy.
Also, TPB wanted to buy Sealand, lol
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'Got Weasel?'
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| Posted: Aug 06, 2009 3:06 a.m. - Subject: |
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fuk da polic!!!!!!!!!!
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