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The Pirate Bay sale, which left many questions unanswered and many people skeptical, looks a lot less likely now that Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster, decided to step away from the deal, after only two weeks. He was brought in to aid with the transformation of the site into a legitimate one and to broker the ... |
29 July 2009
04:46 GMT |
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With the Pirate Bay being sold and new owner Global Gaming Foundation claiming the site will become legal and pay copyright owners, many are wondering how exactly the company intends to make the money necessary for the licensing. Most of the explanations have been vague but with the hiring of Wayne Rosso some details... |
17 July 2009
08:42 GMT |
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Last month Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory announced its plans to buy the popular bittorrent site Pirate Bay for $7.8 million. If the deal goes through the Pirate Bay will turn legit and pay copyright owners while keeping the core of the site intact. While the news sent shock waves through the community ... |
17 July 2009
05:23 GMT |
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While the aftermath of the Pirate Bay deal is just starting to be felt, some questions as to the future of the site and how the community will fare are already begging to be answered. Last week the torrent site announced it had been bought by Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) for about $7.8 mill... |
6 July 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) announced the acquisition of torrent indexer and tracker site Pirate bay for a reported $7.8 million (SEK 60 million). Pirate Bay representatives have confirmed the news saying that the move shouldn't worry users and that the new leadership will continue to build on the principle... |
30 June 2009
05:28 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is working on a new video sharing site, called Video Bay, to compete with the likes of YouTube. While the initial announcement was made over two years ago a test version was just recently made available for the public. Most of the features are in very early development and the site has a clear “d... |
29 June 2009
04:58 GMT |
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The request for a retrial in the Pirate Bay case, after allegations of bias on the judge's part, is being reviewed by the Svea Court of Appeal. The Stockholm District court, which handled the case, argued yesterday that the judge's affiliation with several pro-copyright groups didn't interfere with his... |
9 June 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Sweden's Pirate Party managed to win at least one seat in the European Parliament after the elections held this past Sunday. It gained a little more than 7 percent of the Swedish votes and was placed above several established parties. Sweden had a 43 percent turnout in the European elections and the outcome pl... |
9 June 2009
02:26 GMT |
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With the whole Pirate Bay trial controversy not even close to settling down, here comes another case of copyright taking torrent sites to court. This time it was the Netherlands’ popular torrent indexing site Mininova's turn to go to court with the local anti-piracy group BREIN. BREIN is accusing Mininov... |
4 June 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Sweden's Pirate Party is getting some high scores in the polls and may be able to secure a seat in the European parliament. The party is the third biggest in the country according to polls ahead of the European elections, as Times Online reports, and its popularity is growing, especially after the Pirate Bay tri... |
23 May 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Content and copyright owners are constantly fighting against piracy, either by starting organizations with the role of preventing the expansion of illicitly sourced content, or by filing lawsuits against major BitTorrent trackers. The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular communities for sharing and downloading of file... |
11 August 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker from Sweden that is very much concerned with the issues of security and privacy. They should be, since in Sweden the Government can at any time access all international e-mail messages, telephone calls and Internet traffic. Fredrick Neij, co-founder of Pirate Bay, is proposing the impl... |
10 July 2008
03:16 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent website which has been longly criticized for the content published on its page, prepares to release a complaint in order to demand for compensations from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization supposed to defend music artists' copyrights. To b... |
16 April 2008
04:43 GMT |
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After TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, got shut down, another similar webpage makes a major move due to tough copyright laws. The Pirate Bay today announced that it decided to move its servers in Sinai, Egypt, as a result of new copyright legislation promoted in Sweden. Accordi... |
1 April 2008
05:36 GMT |
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We all know the authorities struggle to shut down the BitTorrent websites and reduce the amount of pirated content they suspect these services distribute every day. But closing them is not always a disaster for the BitTorrent services. The best example is represented by The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent technology that ma... |
27 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Sometimes, law enforcers do anything in their powers and even use illegal methods to prove the crooks' activity. Of course, if the accused ones are proved to be innocent, then the law enforcers might get sued. Pirate Bay, the file sharing service is in such a case - they plan to sue companies, that earlier accus... |
26 September 2007
05:16 GMT |
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