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Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of $7.8 million USD. This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. Although the title of their post is entitled “TPB...

newly hired executive for The Pirate Bay has revealed that users will pay a monthly fee to access the soon-to-be legitimate site. Wayne Rosso, the former Grokster president and Mashboxx founder hired to head acquisitions for The Pirate Bay, wouldn't disclose pricing details in a CNet interview...

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...

Source: *news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8121680.stm A Swedish court has thrown out a request for a retrial by the four men behind The Pirate Bay website. The four were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement in April and face jail sentences and hefty claims for damages...

The connections of Pirate Bay judge Tomas Norström to national and international pro-copyright lobby groups are even more far reaching than initially reported. Consequently, many leading figures within the Swedish judicial system are now convinced that a retrial is necessary so the defendants...

During the Pirate Bay trial Monique Wadsted represented several major movie studios and called for a “very significant” prison sentence for the defendants. This didn’t go down particularly well with some Pirate Bay supporters and now, in a retaliatory move, a few of them have now taken down her...

One of the biggest cases in file-sharing history ended last week with The Pirate Bay Four sentenced to huge fines and jail time. Today it is revealed that far from being impartial, the judge in the case is a member of pro-copyright groups - along with Henrik Pontén, Monique Wadsted and Peter...

Directly quoted from: *trial.thepiratebay.org/2009/02/16/publish-as-us-in-your-country/#more-171 OK, Internets! Time to start working some for those downloads. We want you to copy and translate our op-editorial to your language and send it to your papers. It was published earlier today...

Half of the charges levelled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped. Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making available copyright material" on trial day two. Pirate Bay...

Source: *news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7739171.stm An anti-piracy watchdog has welcomed the destruction of a suspected Somali pirate vessel in the Gulf of Aden by an Indian navy warship. INS Tabar sank the pirate "mother ship" after it did not stop for investigation and instead...

The Pirate Bay has reached yet another milestone. :cool: Today, they track more than 20 million unique peers for the first time since the site was launched. It is estimated that the Pirate Bay tracks more than half of all BitTorrent users at any given point in time...

Man .. i love Pirate Bay :rolleyes: for having guts to stand up against those Corporate D!ck heads....:p :p :p Note : When Torrent is of much debate today.. i think we here in Thinkdigit shouldnt Stop users from discussing about torrents... Hence i request mods to think about the issue...

The battle between the IFPI and the Pirate Bay continues. A Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP “Tele2″ (DMT2-Tele2) to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker. The Pirate Bay, currently ranked 28th in the list of most visited sites in Denmark, is...

OK Guyz, While we still have intelligent copyright laws in India, I think that it is necessary that we must strive to maintain status quo. We can not expect this to happen unless we start working in this area before we have to start facing problems like DRM and net neutrality. I therefore...

Guys, just check out the link. It's quite kewl.... *www.flickr.com/photos/max-aretz/2129222481/

The Pirate Bay, the world's largest torrent tracker hastaken up a surprisingnew residence. The site, which hosts over 630,000 torrents, movedaboard the domain ifpi.com, which formerly belonged to the International Federation of thePhonographic Industry (IFPI). While many may be unfamiliar with...

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Came by email... thought sharing... !!!!

Published: Yesterday, @ May 18, 2:30 PM Author: Smaran Some believed the video site might evolve from the idea that is Playble.com — a free music site started by Brokep of The Pirate Bay and the Swedish rock band Lamont — that aims at compensating artists directly and cutting out record...