The Pirate Bay – A Moment of Silence Please
Tuesday 30 June 2009 @ 4:04 am | By tskiller 10 Comments
Rest in Peace, we hardley knew ye.
With a recent announcement of acquisition by the Swedish tech company, Global Gaming Factory X, The Pirate bay seems to be going the way of Napster. The company reportedly paid around 7.7 million dollars for the online piracy hub, which for those of you who are curious, is well above the old owners recent legal fines of 3.6 million.
“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 Global Gaming CEO Hans Pandeya.
With this announcement, they are clearly trying to move the site and community forward past these recent legal troubles into a completely legitimate operation. I wish them the best of luck, but we all know how well Napster did after trying the same thing.
You had a hell of a run, TPB, and will be sorely missed by many.
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
Random J
Sol
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
Did you recite that by memory?
If by recite you mean paste and by memory you mean clipboard then yes. I did recite that from memory.
I know a good chunk of it by memory though but not that well.
It’s a sad thought, to think that I literally used this site yesterday =/
First OiNK and now TPB, oh dark days are coming.
Man… shit sux… =\
aye, ’tis a sad loss, she sailed a good run and offered the plunder of a king’s treasure sure enough.
but fear not ye scurvy land lubbers… sure as the salty waves another ship shall sail again.
*sails flags at half mast*
GIVE ME THE PSP PACK OR I SWEAR TO GOD
Shut up and go draw more DDN-tan
Hey at least they came up on a cool 4mil.
I never really used the site anyhow…I’ll be on Demonoid if you need me.
Oddly enough, private trackers seem to be the best bet for quality torrents nowadays. As massive as these link sites were, there was more junk then good on them.