Author Topic: The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal? (Read 10631 times)

woodyear99 · « **on:** June 30, 2009, 08:28:02 AM »

Hmmm I have a feeling the pirate bay won't be for torrents in the future

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sold-to-software-company-goes-legal-090630/

According to gaming company Global Gaming Factory X, it is in the the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay for $7.8m (SEK 60 million). The acquisition is scheduled to be completed by August and will see the site launch new business models to compensate content providers and copyright owners.

Software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) says it is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay and file-sharing technology company Peerialism. GGF claims to have the biggest network of internet cafés and gaming centers in the world.

The changeover of ownership is scheduled for August 2009, whereby GGF will take over the operation of the site.

The company says that after it has completed the acquisition it will launch new business models so that copyright owners get paid, which is clearly a huge diversion from TPB’s previous modus operandi.

Carigamers · « **on:** June 30, 2009, 08:28:02 AM »

Spazosaurus · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2009, 09:00:44 AM »

No matter what they say about the new owners wont change it because people will stop coming on the site, there is bound to be some change...dare I say some SIGNIFICANT change that will cause the site to totally suck. Either they severly limit the content or they make users pay for registration or whatever. Thank internets there are enough aquisition sites around that if tpb is to be lost, the blow will be thoroughly cushioned.

Arcmanov · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2009, 09:14:13 AM »

The worldwide filesharing community has survived the downfall of Napster, Kazaa, and SuprNova,
which were all bigger than Pirate Bay. I certainly won't miss em too much.

All this does is add a few more clicks to my content searches.

Nephilim · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:00:57 AM »

Quote from: Arcman on June 30, 2009, 09:14:13 AM

All this does is add a few more clicks to my content searches.

wtf is that a haiku...EPIC.

that is the most profound shit i heard from a file sharer yet.

Spazosaurus · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:04:06 AM »

ok...?

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:04:06 AM »

woodyear99 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:17:25 AM »

I like TPB as it has alot of feedback from downloaders....makes it easier to filter out any fakes/virus crap...but yeah torrents not gonna to disappear that is for sure

Nephilim · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:25:41 AM »

Quote from: woodyear99 on June 30, 2009, 10:17:25 AM

I like TPB as it has alot of feedback from downloaders....makes it easier to filter out any fakes/virus crap...but yeah torrents not gonna to disappear that is for sure

if you not on demonoid, hit me up i will hit you an invite, you just mentioned the reason I use demon pretty much exclusively.

Arcmanov · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:31:30 AM »

Ah...Demonoid has been my torrent hoss for the longest while now. I don't have the ability to give invites yet though.

W1nTry · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:43:36 AM »

I don't use them so it bothers me not.

UltimateGamer · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:47:59 AM »

No need for piratebay when you got mininova, torrentbox, isohunt and most importantly for me torrentleech

PS reading through comments to find out if something was real truely sucked on the piratebay. Too much damn fakers. Was always a last resort site for me.

Spazosaurus · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:02:17 AM »

Mininova for real. But the ultimate torrent search engine is google. Just putting torrent after whatever you searching, as long as it exists, you bound to find it.

woodyear99 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:14:07 AM »

Yeah this is what happens when you get too large, and in any case it seems when one closes 10 more come in to fill its place...

I doh really download that many torrents again, anyone still use isohunt.com ?

UltimateGamer · « **Reply #12 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:21:24 AM »

Torrent searching happens in stages for me, It goes something like this

Mininova .... No?

Isohunt (They list torrentbox torrents) .... No?

Torrentleech .... No?

ThePirateBay .... Most Likely but No?

Demonoid(After piratebay to preserve ratio) .... No?

Google .... Bunch of fake and pay crap so .... No?

Screw that yes warez site + rapidshare, megaupload, netload or megashares I bound to find it.

woodyear99 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:25:52 AM »

Yeah but those sites (like rapidshare) you does hadda deal with waiting queues, limited ip downloads etc... meh

W1nTry · « **Reply #14 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:28:02 AM »

I use demonoid, very little i've NOT found there. No upload/download limits per say.

UltimateGamer · « **Reply #15 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:33:21 AM »

Quote from: woodyear99 on June 30, 2009, 11:25:52 AM

Yeah but those sites you does hadda deal with waiting queues, limited ip downloads etc... meh

Not me, premium on all. Believe me well worth the money. I does kinda get fed up of waiting for a torrent to eventually finish since my torrent of choice is 1080p Movies 8 - 15 gigs. With any of those you are almost guaranteed full download speed. And seeing how games getting bigger and bigger, sometimes i just can't afford to sit and way 2 days - 3 days for something to finish you know. Not to mention those things kill your ratio on both torrentleech and demonoid which are the only 2 trackers you get respectful speeds on (Specifically torrentleech, the fastest torrents in the world there almost guaranteed full speed).

Redfish · « **Reply #16 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:40:48 AM »

Funfile for getting stuff fast at an average of 250k downloads speeds easy, can go higher too. Once it's recent it's there(games,tv shows etc) and you get it FAST!! Yea they have seeding rules etc but that's my get stuff quick torrent site. You need to get an invite to join though.

Demonoid for any and everything

Those two sites alone are more than enough for me, piratebay won't really be missed by me...

Spazosaurus · « **Reply #17 on:** June 30, 2009, 12:09:15 PM »

Wow. We REALLy have to hope COTT dont make a touchdown on this thread eh?

woodyear99 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2009, 12:10:22 PM »

Lol yeah boy

Redfish · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2009, 12:19:49 PM »

Carigamers · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2009, 12:19:49 PM »

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