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Pirate Bay Site Sold To Game Firm
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nemorave replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 9:48am |
 Coolness: 89060 | File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been sold to a Swedish gaming company.
Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site from its founders. Once it has taken control, GGF said it would start paying copyright fees for the movies, music and games linked to via the site. In April, The Pirate Bay owners were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement, fined 30m kronor and were sentenced to one year in jail. New owner The four men behind the site, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, said they planned to appeal against the sentence. The Pirate Bay is one of the most well-known file-sharing sites on the web. Many people use it to find copyrighted material such as TV shows, games and music tracks. The Pirate Bay does not host any of the pirated material itself. "We feel that we can't take The Pirate Bay any further," Mr Sunde told the Swedish news agency TT. "We're in a bit of a frozen situation where there's not much happening and there are neither people nor money to develop things." Half the money GGF will pay for the site will be in cash and the remainder in shares in the company. "We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site" said Hans Pandeya, head of GGF in a statement. "Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it," he said. GGF has not released details of how it will charge for the content downloaded via the site. The Pirate Bay will be handed over to GGF in August. It is not clear how the deal affects the Video Bay - a video-sharing site set up by the people behind The Pirate Bay. GGF specialises in software that helps run and maintain PCs used in cyber cafes and gaming centres. [ news.bbc.co.uk ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cutterhead replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 7:54pm |
 Coolness: 131620 | >>GGF specialises in software that helps run and maintain PCs used in cyber cafes and gaming centres.
do you think they payed the licences , always sold oem-from-the-shelf-and-wrapped ? what a joke , wanting to use the free layer for comercial purposes . sheesh. the model isnt even secure and they're lunching it to the moon like it was ready. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 8:19pm |
 Coolness: 93520 | Im just speculating but I figure this new company is going to pretend to work on getting copyright issues dealt with while they move the company HQ and host servers to a country where p2p sharing via torrent is a gray zone (aka - a country like Canada)
The torrent model isn't viable if people have to pay for it unless its competitively priced with itunes and amazon and targeted to countries where downloading copyrighted material is illegal |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nemorave replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 8:42pm |
| Coolness: 89060 | Canada isn't a safe heaven either. Remember what happenned when Demonoid was in Canada? They had to shut down the site for 3 months at least until they found a suitable country |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cutterhead replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 9:23pm |
| Coolness: 131620 | yea canada is only good for encryption computer wise.
as for software copyright / enforcement they jailed some guy in laval just last year for having a torrent running and hosting a cd. so you can bet your ass canada isnt viable for torrent. and even less for so called "commercial torrents" . what , they will use pirates as their source for original material now ? this is crazy |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 9:58pm |
 Coolness: 145225 | what i don't understand is why the copyrighted material can't just be paid for by adds on the download site?
it's like the movies and music industry are obsessed with charging for content, they just love the idea of 'we sell 20 million copies we make 200 million dollars' or something to that effect... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 9:59pm |
 Coolness: 685615 | Originally Posted By NEMORAVE
Canada isn't a safe heaven either. Remember what happenned when Demonoid was in Canada? They had to shut down the site for 3 months at least until they found a suitable country Actually, that's not quite it.. It was just ruled that canadians couldn't access it, which was ridiculous considering it was hosted in Laval.. but Demonoid was still up and running, it's just Canadian IPs that got blocked from accessing it! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cutterhead replied on Sun Jul 5, 2009 @ 10:13pm |
| Coolness: 131620 | yea , beside , isnt industry canada's the one to release 80k $ per sortware projects?
so if canadians pays it with our taxes , shouldnt we be alowed to it. it sounds like soft buiz just want to make profits on top of profits on top of profits. their's no limit to how money envy they are. here we are , have a perfect system (thou with flaws, still works so its perfect machine wise) to grow, evolve learn, but no, they have to put everything in the disney vault till someone shits the money .. the fuckers.. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 3:14am |
| Coolness: 93520 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD
Demonoid was still up and running, it's just Canadian IPs that got blocked from accessing it! why? I thought dl-ing for personal use was legal here |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 3:35am |
| Coolness: 685615 | Generally yeah, as we pay a levy on all things capable of storing pirated media..
[ torrentfreak.com ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 3:43am |
| Coolness: 93520 | "pressure from the CRIA"...wtf?
I dont understand. I mean, if its not illegal, who gives a shit about "pressure." p2p is legal in canada. its already gone to court and been ruled on IMO the CRIA should be fined everytime they pressure someone. It sounds very illegal...like a mix blackmail and extortion |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 4:58am |
| Coolness: 685615 | It's not exactly 100% legal, it's not 100% illegal.. It's a bit of a grey area.. Technically the levy only covers audio recordings, not movies/tv serries/games/everything else.. Buy generally our govt. doesn't do anything unless someone is making money by selling pirated material. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 5:01am |
| Coolness: 93520 | hey...its late. Ur still awake? Wanna Cyber? Its 100% legal! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 5:34am |
| Coolness: 685615 | lol me and sleep never get along when we're supposed to do it :P
I'm currently trying to come up with some absurd musical combination that involves Autotune.. Something to give Brokencyde a run for the money for "absolute shittiest music ever made".. so far I'm thinking autotune-crunk rammstein covers.. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» SourUltraFast replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 5:42am |
 Coolness: 91415 | I think they need a bit of reference to know what you are talking about, Fred. So here it is!
(I'm soooo sorry) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cutterhead replied on Mon Jul 6, 2009 @ 9:01am |
| Coolness: 131620 | autoune linda lemay with some sanitorium for the ultimate shit track . |
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