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- cosy18, on 07/05/2009, -4/+51if TPB really wanna help they should allow us to copy and paste TPB
- inactive, on 07/05/2009, -6/+45One site goes down, eight more will take its place.
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -1/+39And here I thought that they sold it so that they could make some cash and to avoid being prosecuted again.
- kopiwrite, on 07/06/2009, -7/+37TF: What does the BitTorrent community need the most to continue being the mainstream P2P protocol?
Peter: More trackers, less centralized systems and more people standing up for the community.
This is why they sold it. The community can't get stuck with all its eggs in one site. It has to be bigger than that, if true political change will happen which is desperately needed. - mickstephenson, on 07/06/2009, -0/+27The actual database and code, rather than an unusable mass of html?
- UmarSajid, on 07/06/2009, -2/+26Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
- eminn3m, on 07/05/2009, -2/+20Not really any new info in this article.
- Generator83, on 07/06/2009, -4/+21Considering Peter says that the money will be going to a foundation primarily for political interests, my first guess is that it somehow has to do with the Pirate Party. If thats the case then that amount of money will go a long way towards furthering the fight for copyright reform.
- Leonffs, on 11/20/2009, -2/+19I think most people can agree that 90% of the stuff people pirate they wouldn't buy if they couldn't pirate it. Who the hell is going to pay $999 for Photoshop?
- greevar, on 07/06/2009, -3/+19Speed bumps... nothing more.
- Jaime2000, on 07/06/2009, -0/+15No, no, you were wrong good sir. Those paragons of virtue could never have done something so base as trying to make money while dressing up the sale with the flowery language of politics.
/s - chongli, on 07/06/2009, -3/+17They're selling the domain name and changing the name to Open BitTorrent.
Great way to cash in, pay some legal bills and donate the rest to the Pirate Party. - Chrysalii, on 07/06/2009, -1/+15I had my heart set on 9
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+14No you're wrong... 7 more will take its place.
- Crisender111, on 07/06/2009, -9/+22These guys have done a lot. So THANK YOU boys!
But still this is a SELL-OUT. For all the good-will, you shall also primarily be remembered for handing over w/o so much as intimating the loyal community beforehand. That sucked (HURT) man. - TheAbsintheHare, on 07/06/2009, -0/+11People saying they're hurt because Pirate Bay "sold out" are such weenies. These guys spent 5 years of their time, and a lot of their own money to make a place where you got to download stuff you should have paid for, for free... All you did was sit at a desk, downloading stuff and chanting how cool piracy is while protected by a mask of anonymity. They're now looking at prison time, and huge fines. You can't do something illegal, get in trouble for it, then go back to doing the same illegal thing without changing stuff around; they'd just get busted again. This is the only logical way for them to continue on, while still getting some sort of positive end result from the death of the bay. I mean... who wouldn't take 8 million dollars for a site that is basically useless to them now.
- Aero347, on 07/06/2009, -1/+11R.I.P. Pirate Bay, Thank you.
- freakyrunnerguy, on 07/06/2009, -1/+10And the pirates carry on!
- aladrin, on 07/06/2009, -2/+11A link to Kopimi that explains that you -can- copy it is on every single page. What more do you want?
- 17999, on 07/06/2009, -2/+11Didn't these guys have some high minded pro-piracy, anti-government stance? Or, was it all just a buncha hooey?
- rmxz, on 07/06/2009, -3/+11And how many of those 8 will just be entrapment sites run by the RIAA?
- jeremymccurdy, on 07/06/2009, -2/+9Considering they're giving the money from the sale to further their political interests and not their wallets, they apparently aren't doing it for the money.
- Niz1, on 07/06/2009, -2/+8You are right except you don't know until you have watched it that its ***** and by that time its too late, some movies you can count on Transformers, batman etc. Wolverine is proof that piracy cannot hurt a good movie its only the ***** ones they just blame it on piracy as an excuse as to how ***** it did.
- aladrin, on 07/06/2009, -2/+8No, they won't.
- Dalif, on 07/06/2009, -2/+8You seem to have misunderstood the concept of what's going on here. It's not that people who pirate aren't necessarily going to watch the movie in the theater, or buy the music online or whatever. The box office figures speak for themselves. And when artists play concerts, they are still sold out (unless you're NKOTB or K-Fed or whatever).
But even they are just proving this point. Respect the audience, and make a quality product, and they WILL respect you back, and make sure you are rewarded accordingly (by buying whatever).
Piracy is fighting the man, imo. - nyxerebos, on 07/06/2009, -1/+7One can recover the database with a scraper.
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -3/+9So they say anyway. I think the whole thing was a business venture from the beginning, just copy Napster's story, get famous, get sued, then settle and cash out.
- fandyboy, on 07/06/2009, -3/+8Resistance to paying for stuff that people should be paid for.
- guitarplex, on 07/06/2009, -2/+7exactly. I would say that figure is closer to 97% for me. :)
- V1ncent, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4The new standard will be a defunct site.
- Leonffs, on 11/20/2009, -1/+5Anyone have a clue what the new de facto standard will be?
- duckyinc, on 07/06/2009, -4/+8then 6 go "legal" and the 2 that are left are terrible -.-
- patc6, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3It is not Piracy but a new paradigm. With all new paradigms there will be resistance from those that don't understand it and those that do understand it embrace it. TPB held the door open to those that understand and gave the finger to those that didn't understand.
Just how I see it. Good luck to the founders of TPB! - CressCrowbits, on 07/06/2009, -1/+4Oh yeah that.
- eleete, on 07/06/2009, -2/+5GALT = -15 and counting
- TheAbsintheHare, on 07/06/2009, -1/+4Why is that such a bad thing?
- Nikobelia, on 07/06/2009, -1/+4Props to them for keeping the site up as long as they did, and I'm not going to blame them for selling up and moving on. Piracy will live on; they've done a lot for it.
- pilobilus, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2The new electronic media have killed an already stagnant and failing music industry that originally depended on the high costs of production and distribution to maintain and grow their monopolies. This industry has not fallen over yet, but it will, and a much more diverse, consumer driven "grass roots" sector will take its place. The Pirate Bay is now part of the history of this transition. The end of the transition will be the rebirth of popular music...
- guruboyguru, on 07/07/2009, -2/+4Enjoy your money, douchebags.
How many times did you idiots insist they weren't making money? - kragil, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Please safe the PB content!
Why not copy all the trackerless azureus links of the PB torrents to some other site. Maybe someone could even code a programm that establishes a new tracker based on the azureus links.. That would big a big step I think. - kmkg, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Guy who sold TPB to GGF: But they’re not as stupid as they’ve been portrayed.
BOOM - purplelantern, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Well said. It is sad that only the people who want to get stuff for free seems to understand and embrace it. People who create stuff that other people wants (and want to get paid for it) don't seems to understand and embrace it.
- ninja0, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2You know, I think you are right. The pirate bay (originals) are not to be ***** with. Seriously, they just want to stir up stuff and change things. Internetsly, and politically.
- ninja0, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Sail on boys. Sail on...
- CressCrowbits, on 07/06/2009, -12/+13Yeah, we're sticking it to the man giving away ***** for free! The industry can't stop us! We aren't doing it for the money, we are doing it for freedom!
Wait, you want to give us a ***** load of money to stop it? Certainly Sir, and how high would you like us to jump? - jeremymccurdy, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1@solid12345: Except they were in a criminal trial, not a lawsuit, there's also already been a verdict. The only real self serving thing they might be doing is to lobby against copyright laws and thus nullify their sentence.
- diggdatt, on 07/06/2009, -3/+3Capitalism must die, sooner or later everyone will have to get that.
- CressCrowbits, on 07/06/2009, -4/+4Resistance to what?
- GaltShrugged, on 07/07/2009, -2/+2*Applauds
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