[url]http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10288235-93.html[/url]
[quote]As The Pirate Bay apparently goes legit, the Swedish file-sharing company has hired someone with experience in both legal and illegal file-sharing sites.
Global Gaming Factory, the Swedish software company vying to buy The Pirate Bay, has hired Wayne Rosso, the very vocal former president of Grokster and founder of Mashboxx, to help strike licensing deals with content owners. Global Gaming announced earlier this month that the company intends to pay $7.8 million for The Pirate Bay once investors okay the deal.
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"I've gotten friendly with a lot of these guys," Rosso said of Mitch Bainwol, the RIAA's CEO and other music industry execs. "These are good guys. They've been wonderful to me. Other people in the business have been nice to me but they've had to hold their nose. Some of them took me too seriously. To me it was a f***ing circus. None of that stuff was personal."
As for the new business model, Rosso said The Pirate Bay will offer users all the music they can download for a small monthly fee. Eventually, users can whittle that fee down to nothing by tying their computers to The Pirate Bay's "cloud" network. For example, a person may dedicate a gig of hardware space to the network and the fee may go from $9 to $5. (Rosso declined to discuss pricing yet so the numbers are made up just for the example).
"The more of your computer resources you contribute to the network, the less you pay down to zero," Rosso said. "The user is in control."
The Pirate Bay then plans to harness all that computing power and sell it, becoming a competitor of Akamai and Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
"We hope to introduce a new BitTorrent technology that will optimize ISP traffic," Rosso said. "We can save ISPs up to 80 percent of their resources. Half of the Internet traffic is file sharing and half of that traffic is Pirate Bay." [/quote]
I don't agree with their earlier support of copyright infringement, but this is kind of pathetic. It appears that TPB is going exactly the way of Napster, which is sad. TPB, say goodbye to all cultural relevance.
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RIP, TPB
Also, [noparse]:furcry:[/noparse] is my new favorite emote.
Napster.
Fuck it
Finally
Daaaamn 93 dumbs
And watch as their huge acquisition becomes totally devoid of users, and the pirate party walks off once again, just that much richer.
Pirate the pirate bay?...
Well, there goes my favorite website.
Good night, sweet prince.
Bitching incoming.
Good, Finally you faggots will seed now.
Also PM for demonoid invites if this is true.
[quote]"The more of your computer resources you contribute to the network, the less you pay down to zero," Rosso said. "The user is in control."[/quote]
Holy shit! The users are in control! Wow this is so cool
Fuck that shit I've been using isohunt recently anyway.
What the hell? That's only a shitty idea. If someone is enough of an asshole not to pay for his games, why would he pay for a website?
[QUOTE=sonicrjk;16090239]Good, Finally you faggots will seed now.
Also PM for demonoid invites if this is true.[/QUOTE]
I need to remember my demonoid account. Fuck.
Fucking figures. I really didn't want to say it, but...
I told you all so.
And nothing of value was lost.
[QUOTE=KorJax;16090241]Holy shit! The users are in control! Wow this is so cool[/QUOTE]
I find that incredibly empowering.
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;16090302]And nothing of value was lost.[/QUOTE]
Forreal
fucking hell.
will downloads be faster?
if it's 3 times faster I'll go for it
we must take it back [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/emot-jihad.gif[/img]
[quote=What I said earlier]God fucking damnit. When they mean "legitimatize business" they mean "Sign up now to enjoy FREE downloads at a one time only signup fee of $29.99 only at The Pirate Bay!!!" [/quote]
Damnit I hate it when I'm right.
Fifty bucks says TPB will be non-existent in a year.
Uhh, who cares? TPB was and isn't the "last bastion" of pirating. There are so many torrent sites on the web, and TPB definately wasn't the best. Sure it was the flagship (no pun intended) in a way, but its not a big deal.
Well, fuck TPB. Watch their traffic drop to zero.
Fuck Pirate Bay, I use Demonoid for all my legal torrenting.
It's not like Pirate Bay is the only torrent site on the internet.
[QUOTE=poryon2;16090458]It's not like Pirate Bay is the only torrent site on the internet.[/QUOTE]
But they have the coolest name.
[QUOTE=Xystus234;16090414]Damnit I hate it when I'm right.[/QUOTE]
Damnit I hate it when you're right.
Who actually came up with this?
"This crowd is lazy and doesn't want to pay money for anything, we could just put adds on the sid..."
"Lets make them pay for downloads!"
Lol looks like you guys are gonna need demonoid.com invites.
[QUOTE=tomahawk2;16090426]Uhh, who cares? TPB was and isn't the "last bastion" of pirating. There are so many torrent sites on the web, and TPB definately wasn't the best. Sure it was the flagship (no pun intended) in a way, but its not a big deal.[/QUOTE]
WHY WOULD YOU TYPE NO PUN INTENDED???
By typing 'No pun intended' you're making it intended because you know it happened! In the time it took you to type 'No pun intended' you could have rearranged your sentence! If it really was unintended then why didn't you erase it and type something else?!
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