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- MMusick, on 06/30/2009, -0/+65Let me ask you this: Do you know anyone that uses Napster?
- Mummo, on 06/30/2009, -1/+46Not a chance in hell
- ahndru, on 06/30/2009, -3/+36WTB a successor: theninjabay.org
- HALNINETHOUSAND, on 06/30/2009, -0/+30Absolutely not. To take the Pirate out of Pirate Bay is a bit...you know...dumb.
- AshamedAmerican, on 06/30/2009, -0/+24They didn't buy it to make a profit, they bought it to kill it.
- casspa, on 06/30/2009, -3/+21Why would we pay for content when we can still get it for free elsewhere?
- wackydelly, on 06/30/2009, -3/+14*navigates browser over to demonoid while whistling*
- mythicflux, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9Yes but as with all the other efforts to kill P2P, this will result in all those users moving to another even easier solution. And the cycle continues....
Usenet => Hotline => Napster => Kazaa => Limewire => The Pirate Bay => ???? - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+10What are they going to call it? The Bay?
- Cole2026, on 06/30/2009, -3/+12They abuse them all of the time. The DMCA is one of the most broken pieces of legislation ever to scorn this country, and that is really saying something.
- Spamorama, on 06/30/2009, -1/+9Pirate Bay is dead to me!
Ninjas > Pirates - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+9Time to walk the plank YARRR!
And as far as a legal piratebay thriving? sure...in bizzaro world. - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+8On to the next torrent site! Fun while it lasted but all good things must end sooner or later.
- blacklilyninja, on 06/30/2009, -1/+8it should be renamed "The British Navy"
- krisrm, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7That would make it The Bay, would it not? I loathe department stores...
- DiggaFugYoCouch, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7Yarrrrrrrrrrrrr credit card, first name and last name please?
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6Women are for the weekends. Trackers are for life.
- Homerr, on 06/30/2009, -3/+9RIP TPB
- antoniwan, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6"Napster. Part of BestBuy."...
- s73v3r, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7They're just talking about this one site. BitTorrent technology is already used in several legitimate uses. Blizzard uses it to distribute patches for World of Warcraft, and most Linux distros are available through BT downloads. Trent Reznor also uses BT to distribute his free albums, and he used it to distribute some ungodly high amount of concert footage for people to mess with and remix.
- Cowzeetgrass, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6Touche'. If there are no more low hanging apples, people will just go find a different tree.
- dystra, on 06/30/2009, -2/+7anyone been to napster.com lately?
http://www.napster.com - falafelkiosken, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5why not just sell them the backend code and technical consultation and let them create an legal torrent site based on TPB?
- krisrm, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5As well as your chance of learning where apostrophes are appropriate, apparently. Oh wait, nevermind: *goes
- mykotron, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4guess they have to do something with all those hits....
- zumpiez, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Wow, can we get an editor up in this bitch?
- s73v3r, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4They want the name.
- MacParrot, on 06/30/2009, -2/+6Cole, Fred didn't mention the DMCA. He's saying that people who own the copyrights to various artistic works should be entitled to be compensated if you as a consumer want to view, play, or listen to it.
Do you work for free? If you don't and expect a paycheck for what you do that in essense IS the argument. There's no doubt that the RIAA and the MPAA have abused their mandate, but you also don't have the right to consume works you haven't paid for. - Voide, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4We already have legal alternatives and people still aren't using them....whatever they dish out probably wont be much different then Netflix, Hulu, Boxee, iTunes, Napster, etc. Somebody said earlier on Digg that they believe the company that bought out TPB is a subsidiary of an Anti-Piracy group/copmany, be it the RIAA/MPAA or some other misc. organization. If that's the case, my guess is that they're really not looking to break the bank with TPB, just recoup their 7.7 million dollar expenses from buying it out, while also stopping whatever illegal file sharing was taking place.
- getbusyliving, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5They ***** sold out.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -3/+6I knew they would sell out eventually.
- SpyDerMann, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Now and then??? NOW AND THEN!?!?!?
My God, what planet do you live in? The **AAs abuse copyright EVERY SINGLE SECOND! And they don't give a ***** about fair use. EVER. - g00dETH3R, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4To clarify a bit..
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.
*I did not write this post, it have been copied, credit should be given to the author "snuggl".* - eclectro, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3It's so that the RIAA can find you after the sellout.
- Choobie, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Instead you can get the Mininova Edition.
It just doesn't sound as cool. You could be legit for once and get the Release Candidate Edition, unless MS stopped distributing that.
Also, *goes*. - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3get your cyanide pills at the rdy lolol
seriously tho there might be better sites then pb but now if pb goes down the MAFIAA will look to other sites more aggressively.. - PeterFile, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Well, because it's on the internet it means it should be free.
- Spamorama, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3If you could find it, it wouldn't be a very good Ninja would it?
- Kornstalx, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3oh WOW, I had totally forgotten all about Hotline.
Holy nostalgia, thanks for that memory. - PeterFile, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3For a start the name's a problem.
- lonmoer, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2will the tracker being down affect torrents on demonoid and mininova?
- VendettaFury, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3Yo - Ho! - Ho! - Ho! a Pirates' life for!....oh, wait.
- rpgmakr, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Japanese people.
- NegativeDigg, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2You can't have the word PIRATE in the name and be legal at the same time....it just won't work...They essentially bought nothing for 7.8m dollars...
- RiotHeart, on 06/30/2009, -5/+7This breaks my heart more than any g/f I lost
- rpgmakr, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2What an excuse to love the SELLOUTS. They let the whole pirate community down. I read this in google news initially and I couldn't ***** believe it. Look, I understand that they are in a ***** up situation right now, I get it, but if you're going to sell yourself don't act self-righteous about your cause prior to SELLING OUT. *****.
- Yage2006, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Demonoid is a private tracker though which in the end probably helps protect it.
But there are thousands of trackers around so it will change nothing for the mpaa/riaa - MaxPowers, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2RIAA: ∞
Anything else: 0 - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3RIAA: 1
Pirates: 0 - junkfoodjoe, on 06/30/2009, -8/+10http://thevideobay.org/
TPB guys put this website up to further piss off people who own copyrights to stuff. I ***** love them. -
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