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Goodbye Pirate Bay. EDIT: looks like usenet may be on it's way down too.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218101960

Buyer Global Gaming Factory X plans to introduce commercial business model to infamous file-swapping site.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
June 30, 2009 07:14 AM

Swedish tech company Global Gaming Factory X said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to acquire controversial file sharing outfit The Pirate Bay for about $7.7 million.

Global Gaming said it would introduce legitimate business models to Pirate Bay's Web site, which had become a haven for illegal file sharing. Pirate Bay's Swedish founders in April were ordered jailed for one year and fined $3.6 million.

"We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site," said Global Gaming CEO Hans Pandeya, in a statement.

Padeya said Pirate Bay draws enormous amounts of Internet traffic but added that it needs to adopt legitimate business models to stay in operation.

"The Pirate Bay site is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies that requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary," said Pandeya.

"Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers need faster downloads and better quality," he added.

The deal could see The Pirate Bay evolve in a manner similar to that followed by Napster. A nexus for illegal peer-to-peer swapping several years ago, Napster was acquired by a string of legitimate vendors that instituted pay-to-play business models on the site.

Also Tuesday, Global Gaming said it agreed to acquire Peerialism, a Swedish company that specializes in the development of p2p file sharing technology. The move is not unrelated to Global Gaming's buyout of The Pirate Bay.

"Peerialism has developed a new data distribution technology which now can be introduced on the best known file sharing site—The Pirate Bay," said Peerialism CEO Johan Ljunberg, in a statement.

:sad:


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Edited by blewmeanie (07/01/09 12:53 PM)

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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: blewmeanie]
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:sad:

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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Gumby]
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Yeah, just read about this on digg. Damn, end of an era. Looks like it's back to usenet soon.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Gumby]
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Does anyone need a demonoid invite?

This seriously fucks my day up. :sadyes:


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: blewmeanie]
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blewmeanie said:
Does anyone need a demonoid invite?

This seriously fucks my day up. :sadyes:


I wish...

I saw this coming, I had a premonition. 35 gigs of content this month.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Wapakz]
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Haha, this is nuts.

I can't believe anyone would pay that much for TPB.

Nobody there is going to pay for anything, that's fucking stupid.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Wapakz]
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Wapakz said:
blewmeanie said:
Does anyone need a demonoid invite?

This seriously fucks my day up. :sadyes:


I wish...

I saw this coming, I had a premonition. 35 gigs of content this month.


huh, do you need an invite or not?


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Madtowntripper said:
Haha, this is nuts.

I can't believe anyone would pay that much for TPB.

Nobody there is going to pay for anything, that's fucking stupid.


Yeah for real, everyone's just going to go to other sites.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: blewmeanie]
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blewmeanie said:
huh, do you need an invite or not?


That would totally make my day. I wasn't sure you were serious about giving them away.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Wapakz]
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:pm:


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: blewmeanie]
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I refuse to download from them if they are going legit.

:sad:


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: I AM SWIM]
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I AM SWIM said:
I refuse to download from them if they are going legit.

:sad:



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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: UnholyChild666]
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That's the worst business model I've seen in a while.  RIP TPB


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: bbl337]
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It just maes no sense. Sure they get millions of hits daily but that all from folk who have no problem with copyrights etc and want everything for free. Make it ligit and they will ALL just fuckoff somewhere else. I cant see anyone sticking around there due to brand loyalty.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Fleadh]
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Fleadh said:
It just maes no sense. Sure they get millions of hits daily but that all from folk who have no problem with copyrights etc and want everything for free. Make it ligit and they will ALL just fuckoff somewhere else. I cant see anyone sticking around there due to brand loyalty.


Especially since it won't even be run by the same people.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: blewmeanie]
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Ahhh! That was my favorite website.. besides here of course.


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: justinsanity]
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Yeah, it's a sad day. They sold out. I liked tpb. But now I guess I'll stick to demonoid and isohunt. Fucking lame. Really fucking lame. :mad2:


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: blewmeanie]
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Okay I say we all turn into hoarders and start downloading mass shit while we still can.  I'm sure there's about 500GB of music out there I still need!  :evil:

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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: Newbie]
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I really only used TPB for porn :lol:

Demonoid and isohunt work just great for everything else (though isohunt did search TPB, which will make it less cool i guess)


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Re: Goodbye Pirate Bay. [Re: circularvortex]
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Damn, TPB was my 2nd favorite torrent site. Looks like it's strictly Demonoid and btjunkie from now on.

It sucks because it seemed like The Pirate Bay had TV shows like Dexter up a little bit faster than other torrent sites.

Didn't the owner of TPB just get sentenced to jail time a few weeks ago?


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