The Pirate Bay Sold! - To become legal

Pirate Bay, a Swedish-based website that hosts illegal torrent download links and indexes, has officially been sold to software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF), reports Torrentfreak.

The acquisition will cost over $7 million U.S. and is scheduled to be completed sometime this August with a new business model where content owners will finally be compensated.

Hans Pandeya, CEO of GGF, says the sale of the website was crucial for its long term existence.

"The Pirate Bay is a site that 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 the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary," he said.

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

GGF will also purchased Peerialism, a file-sharing company that is said to have a new P2P distribution tech that will be used alongside The Pirate Bay.

So, one of my beloved websites has been sold and the transaction is going to be complete around August. Also, I have a feeling we're going to have to start paying a subscription to use the damn site to be able to pay for all the pomegranate on it. God damn, I liked pirating stuff.

Thoughts?

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Barring pirating as an option, why would you pay to torrent something if you could just buy the real thing?

You can still pirate a lot of stuff if you can read spanish.

I'll just drop this here.

Barring pirating as an option, why would you pay to torrent something if you could just buy the real thing?

Because say, paying a $19.99 monthly subscription to pirate 4 movies, 2 Xbox 360 games and 10 CD's. That $20 is considerably cheaper than the over $200 it would be to purchase all of that say at Wal-Mart. Also, they stated that they want to give us faster download times. I'd be willing to pay for that. But then again, this sounds too good to be true and most likely the site will be changed to the extent when it stops getting used. So much for the 7 million dollar purchase that will just get wasted.

Son of a fucking peach fucking a pineapple pole in the fucking pineapple pineapple-party with a fucking bucket of pineapple pomegranate...

Pirate Bay sucks, and I'm glad to have used it only a handful of times in my years of torrenting. Private torrenting communities are easy to get into and deliver what you want a thousand times faster, with far better quality.

Seriously. Having to abandon Pirate Bay would hardly affect me. Until the day the internet dies, there's always going to be a way. And I won't be paying money for it.

You can still pirate a lot of stuff if you can read spanish.

I'll just drop this here. http://www.taringa.net

Vouch for this site.

Do not want IP track or wtfever for sueage. ._.

Do not want IP track or wtpever for sueage. ._.

With the amount of people using and downloading pirate stuff, sites like this or like taringa! Only die to leave a place that some other site will take over, thus leaving users out of the process. Ok, sues have been made, but likely to stop, since the main focus is now in the providers, host sites or direct download storage sites like rapidshare, megaupload, gigasize or mediafire.

Seriously. Having to abandon Pirate Bay would hardly affect me. Until the day the internet dies, there's always going to be a way. And I won't be paying money for it.

This.