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- velocity92c, on 06/30/2009, -28/+780This is the saddest news I've heard in years.
- timschuit, on 06/30/2009, -13/+653Farrah Fawcett dead.
Ed McMahon dead.
Michael Jackson dead.
Billy Mays dead.
TPB dead.
wtf. - boomcubist, on 06/30/2009, -32/+555The revolution is over. The RIAA/MPAA won. They'll receive their $3.6 million and we'll lose The Pirate Bay. TPB was for me, a little way of protesting. I laughed at the lobbyists every time I went there. I read the takedown notices many times. I felt like I was part of a movement that might actually force the corporate, greedy ***** to consider adopting a new business model.
They're ***** laughing at me now. It's a sad day. - Cubedude04, on 06/30/2009, -16/+339Mininova registrations are going to increase drastically.
- YouAreDead, on 06/30/2009, -12/+297***** the riaa
- YouAreDead, on 06/30/2009, -11/+271***** the mpaa
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -25/+284This isn't TPB closing down. It's decentralising and outsourcing, giving responsibility for some of it's operations to third parties. This will probably be safer for TPB, as it will give strength to TPB's argument that it's just a torrent search engine, like Google. The possibility to buy shares in the company that as of now owns TPB could also be interesting. Maybe the whole of the Digg Community could buy up a controlling stake in the company.
- Daerion, on 06/30/2009, -4/+218The concept itself doesn't sound so bad - but somehow I can't shake off the feeling that this is not going to end well.
- hauntedchippy, on 06/30/2009, -12/+208And transformers 2 sucked balls. 2009 is turning into a really ***** year.
- xsecretfiles, on 06/30/2009, -12/+205Who registers for Torrent sites???
- Naieve, on 06/30/2009, -4/+186True, but we do get the last laugh at them. I don't buy DRM games, I can stream any TV or Movie I want, and can download basically any music off rapidlibrary.
I still buy games without DRM, I still go to movie theaters, but except for my netflix blu ray's, I will never buy another DVD again. I will never buy a music CD again, it's either the radio or a friends CD etc...
I used to spend thousands a year on their *****, but they decided to punish paying customers with DRM. So they can go ***** themselves, I'm done funding them. - Darrelc, on 06/30/2009, -11/+183TPB got ***** up.
- rafacst, on 06/30/2009, -5/+177There's an update to the story. Don't read just the goddamn titles, people.
- DaviDTC, on 06/30/2009, -2/+121Buying shares of TPB right now is like buying shares of GM last month.
- YouAreDead, on 06/30/2009, -29/+136***** sweden
- brickbat, on 06/30/2009, -4/+101IMHO This is being so misunderstood. All they are doing is splitting the search from the tracker. Here is the logic "Ok, you corporate shill bastard judges, if searching and tracking is illegal, then we will search in Sweden and track in XXX." If tracking alone is not infringement in one jurisdiction and searching alone is not infringement in another jurisdiction, by splitting it up, they are free and clear to continue business as usual. Corporations do ***** like this all the time to bypass local laws. In fact it may even be the case that tracking and searching separately even in the same jurisdiction may be legal.
I may be completely wrong but I reckon this is a good thing. Time will tell. - vfreak2, on 06/30/2009, -9/+92Is this the end of an era? If it's not owned by TPB four, it will NOT be TPB. It will never be the same again. :(
- Nekateman, on 06/30/2009, -0/+82i was going to correct your grammar, but i just pictured what you said, so
***** GRAMMAR - Rezistik, on 06/30/2009, -3/+85Demonoid?
- theaceoface, on 06/30/2009, -9/+91Wow! Just...wow
- fahrvergnuugen, on 06/30/2009, -3/+78You forgot David Carradine...
- g33kfu, on 06/30/2009, -1/+75Sorry 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."
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8wwkp/t ... - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -7/+77Mininova removes copyrighted content quite often.
Demonoid anyone? - daridave, on 06/30/2009, -0/+68Vanilla Ice still alive.
- svensksvamp, on 06/30/2009, -3/+71do you know the the girls over here walks around topless?
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+64Hi. Are you new to Digg? Reading titles and descriptions are all that's required to post our knee-jerk reactions. Facts and other information from the article have no place in the comments.
- seanieb, on 06/30/2009, -3/+65Why? they don't have trackers and they remove content. Mininova is on the way out too.
- chriscalifornia, on 06/30/2009, -3/+65You sunk my pirate ship :(
- mface, on 06/30/2009, -21/+77The Pirate Bay is dead. Long live The Pirate Bay.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -2/+58ssh? are you suggesting we just ssh into each other's computers to share files? hmm.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -13/+67You forgot George Carlin
- blackninja543, on 06/30/2009, -3/+56This is why we cant have nice things.
- georgebrown, on 06/30/2009, -9/+62That didn't take long
- emptypoi, on 06/30/2009, -1/+53ssh!
- Schmich, on 06/30/2009, -3/+51hence ***** sweden, literally
- crossmr, on 06/30/2009, -0/+47North Korea?
Man..if kim jong il wants to stick it to the western world he needs to open up some mega ultra speed direct downloads of everything.. - deepleet, on 06/30/2009, -1/+46or 2012
- bpwned, on 06/30/2009, -1/+40You know what is my way of protesting? The Pirate Party I helped create in my country. You're encouraged to copy that idea ;)
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+39They're not decentralizing, they're just outsourcing to another tracker - which is *****.
Someone in a country with somewhat loose copyright laws should just start up a direct clone of TPB and call it The Pirate Pirate Bay. - freshyill, on 06/30/2009, -0/+38Remember Napster? No, not the ***** service that they try to sell to you when you buy a ***** MP3 player. The other Napster. The one that was like The Pirate Bay before Bit Torrent. I wonder what the hell ever happened to them.
- drgmdp, on 06/30/2009, -1/+37FTA
Update: According to Johan Sellström, the CTO of Global Gaming Factory, the plans have changed after Peter Sunde talked to us. “We had discussed closing it down initially so I think that’s why he said so. The plan is to use technology from Peerialism that makes bandwidth utilization more efficient and then it would not make sense to shut it down,” he said, adding. “Peerialism will modify the tracker but it will be backwards compatible. But all this is subject to change if for some reason it would not work. It is our ambition to do so.” - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+36@crossmr - that would actually be genius on their part. If I were an enemy of the US I'd have the most bad-assed torrent tracker in the world,
- doc101, on 06/30/2009, -9/+43Dugg for demonoid
- crgnetworks, on 06/30/2009, -3/+37What a trolltastic headline.. RTFA....
- mparker21311, on 06/30/2009, -7/+40What the ***** is going on? Is this the end of the world or something? *****!
- passedoutghost, on 06/30/2009, -1/+33But you can't seed via ssh!
- Crozz, on 06/30/2009, -1/+32That headline is grossly misleading, as it says in the text it will be moved and decentralized. If you care to think about this for a second it's not bad news. They also get no money from this. I don't think everyone should act like it's doomsday just yet.
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sold-to-sof ...
also
"Update: According to Johan Sellström, the CTO of Global Gaming Factory, the plans have changed after Peter Sunde talked to us. “We had discussed closing it down initially so I think that’s why he said so. The plan is to use technology from Peerialism that makes bandwidth utilization more efficient and then it would not make sense to shut it down,” he said, adding. “Peerialism will modify the tracker but it will be backwards compatible. But all this is subject to change if for some reason it would not work. It is our ambition to do so.”" - Rotzooi, on 06/30/2009, -1/+32All five of them worked for me, thanks!
- DPDish12, on 06/30/2009, -1/+32GM hasn't "made" money in years. They may have had sales of $189 billion, but all that means nothing if your expenses far outstrip your revenues.
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