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Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde Discusses the Site’s Future

On the day that The Pirate Bay announced that they will be sold to a commercial company for $7.8 million, Tomas Wennström secured an audio interview with TPB spokesman Peter Sunde. The interview is of great interest but raises even more questions as shockwaves continue through the P2P community.

Today it was announced that Global Gaming Factory X is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay for $7.8m (SEK 60 million). The acquisition is scheduled to be completed by August 2009 and will see the site launch new business models to compensate content providers and copyright owners.

Tomas Wennström of What’s Next managed to secure a recorded audio interview with The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde. In it Peter says why the site was sold, talks a little about the future for the site and touches on the huge disappointment being expressed by the site’s fans. It’s a very interesting interview, although in common with everything else going on today, it raises even more questions.

Some key points from the interview:

GGF approached The Pirate Bay with a deal several weeks ago. TPB considered GGF to be the correct company to bring the project “to the next level” since they didn’t feel capable of doing it themselves. Peter said he feels that GGF share the same values as TPB.

Peter said that TPB have been approached by companies before to sell out, but they didn’t understand the value of TPB. He said the value of the site is to be found in the userbase and nothing else. He added that if a company is interested in buying that userbase they have to keep up spirits or they will find themselves owning something that rapidly decreases in value.

Tomas Wennström said that he found it crazy that TPB would become a listed company. Peter responded that they think the concept is “super funny” and that’s one of the main reasons they are doing this.

Peter said in the past they’ve had to hide the financial details of the site and who is doing what “for legal reasons” but says that in the future there will have to be more transparency about how the operation is run, adding that people now not only have the chance to share files, but also buy shares in the site.

Peter explained that he and the original owners of TPB disposed of the site in 2006. He refused to name who took the site but referred to a single owner in one of his responses, using the word “he”.

Peter noted that the site hadn’t yet been sold to GGF and the company will have to find funding inside 4 weeks. He said he doesn’t know who the financial backers are, but if GGF cannot find the money then everything goes back to exactly the way it was before.

Peter said that the perfect situation would be if the users of the site set up something to buy The Pirate Bay. Certainly, with all the previous fund raising for buying islands etc this might have been a possibility but this has never even been put forward as an option. The idea seems optimistic considering the backlash among the users.

Currently the site is down after suffering a minor DDoS attack, and TPB’s TiAMO told TorrentFreak that the site’s load balancer had crashed .

Peter says running Pirate Bay has resulted in ‘bad pay’, i.e minus SEK 30 million in fines – incidentally an identical amount to the cash payment part of the deal with GGF.

Tomas Wennström put a scenario to Peter – what if GGF screws up and makes all that is good about The Pirate Bay go away – which seemed like a veiled reference to the availability of the usual TPB content.

“I’m agnostic about it, I think it could be true, could be faulty, but whatever happens at least something happens, which is the big thing here. I’d rather see The Pirate Bay die in a chance of becoming better, than just dying.”

For the time being The Pirate Bay crew will assist the new owners in operating the site. In addition a new tracker will be launched as well as a new torrent hosting service.

The interview can be downloaded here.

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  • Will

    I’m holding judgment until I get more details on this deal. I want TPB to live forever!

  • Z.M

    Great. :P

  • Anonymous

    Well, im setting sail to find me a new port.

  • anonymous

    sellouts

  • anon

    April fools day?

  • gr0x

    Like Peter says on his website: “letting TPB die is the last thing that is allowed to happen!”

    I believe that. They should invest to make the community better.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll be shorting that stock.

  • Anonymous

    I dont understand why they couldnt ask the community first before they set this plan in motion. At least some feedback before making the announcement.

  • n

    hoping for soemthing better now !!

  • lady death

    I’m also withholding judgment until I understand a bit more of what’s going on.

  • roeles

    The interview can also be found here:
    http://www.mininova.org/tor/2727313

  • Captain Blubber

    TPB’s time has simply come. Piracy overcame the fall of the likes of Napster and Suprnova, and it will also overcome the loss of TPB as we know it.

  • med

    down with the sellouts !!

  • bla

    Google is a much better alternative when looking for good torrents.

  • lance

    i still thinks it is one big joke

    http://www.wannabets.blogspot.com

  • goodnessme

    well unlucky, they could have said something to the users of tpb first b4 letting the GGF broadcast it everywhere. thats what shits me the most.

  • Andre

    Running TPB takes money and energy. Plus you have all the negativity from skiddies and copyright holders. If you were the site’s owner, you would get overwhelmed with all the shit, wouldn’t you?

    No-one has said this will be bad for TPB, so don’t rush with the premature decisions such as “RIP TPB” or “sellouts”, that’s bullshit.

  • B-Swarm

    LOL @ all the public tracker muppets…haha, you don’t know sh*t.

  • The Big JRD

    I bailing, destroying all the tracks I can and getting the hell out of Dodge.

    With Mininova filtering content, it’s time to find a safe haven. I’ve picked Demonoind for the time being.

    Those who think file sharing can’t go away just witnessed 50% of the torrents on the net get “bought” by a company with an unknown record. If that doesn’t chill you to the bone, then you have no idea how bad this is.

    Avoid The Bay at all cost.

  • Anon

    I’d rather see The Pirate Bay die in a chance of becoming better, than just dying.” Peter sunde.. BS BS.. dying? you guys actually got much more popular and more user subscribe to ipredator or what ever it’s called… You guys just want money you keep talking sh!t about you’ll fight the copyright and other stuff guess not.. you betrayed the people that trusted you guys. tpb staff your all like corrupt politicians.

  • gr0x

    I’m confused about the foundation part. They’ll put 7.8 mil dollar in a foundation thats owned by anonymous friends, but they don’t have access to their money?

    Sounds pretty vague to me.

  • B-Swarm

    lmmfao ..Demonoid is the last place you wanna be…ffs, idiots.

  • Sharing Is Caring

    Time will tell….

  • GrX

    now the MPAA RIAA get in touch with the company and offer them the funding as a silent partner boom there then in control

    i thought this brokep guy had some sense but seeing all this today makes me wonder if he just got extremely lucky with piratebay

    this has got to be one of the worst choices he’s ever made to date

    Game company cannot get the funds in order do they want to miss out nope, you can bet your ass the industry will step in to cover them costs

    what brokep does understand is the wite and the whole thing is and will be totally useless if it comes to making users pay anything.

    seems that this game company don’t seem to grasp the concept to kill the bay in a single day every user kills their seeds/leeches the site then indexes nothing, never thought a ceo of any company was as stupid to believe turning the no 1 pirate hotspot from a free site for pirates into paying customers is ever going to work

  • “super funny”

    Maybe they should of waited until they actually had the money, looks like tpb’s userbase is quickly evaporating. Might not be enough left in four weeks to pay off the MAFIAA.

  • Anonymous

    “Google is a much better alternative when looking for good torrents.”

    google doesn’t have a huge tracker though!

  • sellouts

    SELLOUTS!

  • NoOne

    “The acquisition is scheduled to be completed by August 2009 and will see the site launch new business models to compensate content providers and copyright owners.”
    Ernesto, please avoid using compensation and its derivatives. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/words-to-avoid.html#Compensation
    explains pretty well why: “To speak of “compensation for authors” in connection with copyright carries the assumptions that (1) copyright exists for the sake of authors and (2) whenever we read something, we take on a debt to the author which we must then repay. The first assumption is simply false, and the second is outrageous.”

    BTW, thanks to PB folks for all they’ve done. Sharing will survive.

  • redc

    Calling TPB sellouts is mild. I rarely use TPB anymore but I was a fan because of their audacity. TPB was a symbol of pirate ideals and righteousness (whether that’s good or bad). TPB doing something like this seems contrary to what they stood for. So it sucks.

  • The Big JRD

    Hey B-Swarm, so tell us what your issues with Demonoid are, or you just like souding like you know something. Because in actuallity you don’t.

    I’ve been at the Noid for a long time and have never had any problems.

  • Jack

    The BitTorrent community almost universally hates change. You guys surely remember how well eXeem did?

    The community as a whole has endured quite a bit. SuprNova going out in ’04, Loki stealing $40k, OiNK being shut down in ’07 and TorrentSpy in ’08. Every time the major player is shut down, a new one pops up to take its place.

    In my opinion, this is the end of the road for TPB. They’ll release something that’ll be “the greatest thing since sliced bread” and it’ll be rejected by the community. From there, we’ll go through a bit of a lull until a new public torrent site pops up.

    Just my 2¢

  • Anonymous

    you can all find a new and good home at http://scene-base.net

  • bullshite

    http://thepiratebay.org/legal

    (we used to have a nice graph here, but it’s simpler to just say: 0 torrents has been removed, and 0 torrents will ever be removed.)

    Yeah right.

  • Fulanus

    Delete your account from TPB, dont use more TPB, please make a new tracker :)

  • dairRIAA

    It was only a matter of time before TPB caved in to the demands and legal threats. They had their day in the sun, they had their publicity and popularity just as Napster did in the good old days.

    I’m bailing from TPB ship. I’m deleting my trackers (I find it interesting that they only allow you to delete a set amount of trackers per day).

    It’s been fun. I’m off to a new ship. :)

  • jackson

    Peter Sunde seems to have his heart in the right place but i CANNOT let go of this nagging thought & feeling that he is taking freedom AND GOING TO THE SLAVE OWNERS & ASKING THEM TO MAKE SURE THE SLAVES REMAIN FREE

    A very sad day, but yes, as Peter said in the audio interview – time will indeed tell whether he was right or one of the stupidest decisions they ever made (for so many of us!)

  • …..

    The ship is sinking, the ship is sinking! Abandon ship!

    heh, I had respect for the pb guys – no more. Your name will be tainted. You proved that its the moneytalk. Shame on you.

    Go into politics! You will fit perfectly

    *mumbles something about spineless c+cksuckers*

  • Cujo

    TPB won’t be worth 2 cents before very long ,, the buyers will loss thier pants for sure

  • B-Swarm

    @ The Big(n00b)JRD….oh nothing really, just the fact that it’s a pile of infiltrated Ukranian crap.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sharing files so that some lame-ass company can make a bunch of money for their stupid shareholders.

    Sad to see them sell out though, like we really need a new tracker (that’s going to track who-knows-what) in order to take things to “the next level” (whatever that’s actually supposed to mean).

  • _the_joker

    and the turd speaketh and the sheep followeth.. same old crap.. again.. and again.. It’s more than obvious the money turd&co. get from GGF will be used to pay the fines. Ah all that big talk sunde, and where did you that get you? A whooping fine and a financial spanking, you little turd-looking leper …

  • Anon

    The worst bit isn’t just the torrent side of it, but a whole ideology dying as the pirate party was and always will be equaled with the idea of sharing and freedom behind the pirate bay.

    That’s now gone – is it over before it even began?

    They basically kicked the whole political, REAL WORLD side of the movement in the nuts, hard.

  • Leper Messiah

    Listen to Metallica song leper messiah. Fits just perfectly. Listen to the words. I still hope this is not the end bus some master plan the TPB are hiding from all of us. But most likely it’s the end.

  • anon

    I’m pretty sure no one in their right mind would want to buy piratebay so we can say the big copyright company are behind this. so you guys better delete your tpb accounts before those bastard use it against you.

  • Amfortas

    @33 There is no “delete account” function in TPB, Fulanus.

    All of the uploaders will be essentially trapped in inside TPB forever and they can only wait for incarceration as the media cartels start to examine the user data and log files of the tracker.

    Bigger is not better when considering bit torrent trackers, only more insecure. Time to move on to the smaller private trackers, folks.

  • Joey Frateno

    RIP The Pirate Bay. Regardless of whether or not this deal was made with the correct motives, your users are freaking out and jumping ship, pun fully intended. This is the death of our beloved site.

  • Leper Messiah

    sorry for double post i meant but not bus : )

  • Drugs

    I just don’t understand how they come out with all this side projects to keep making the site better then all of te sudden they’re going to sell out. I don’t use TPB much but when I do, it’s nice because I can find almost anything there. I was looking forward to their new video site and other projects they had but now….I’m just speechless. I’d rather see TPB die trying then to be sold or some crap like that. Peter and the others will regret this decision in months to come.

  • Just Me

    @ B-Swarm

    And you think private trackers are safe?

    You just go on believing that if it helps you sleep soundly at night.

    Or is it that you’re a member of a few cliquey private places and can keep a ratio and so somehow think you’re special?

  • Joey Frateno

    @#44 Amfortas: Check the TPB blog to see an updated blog – they are creating an account deletion interface later today. I would say all the big name uploaders will be ok depending on the thoroughness of the deletion (IP addresses, logs, etc)

  • B-Swarm

    haha…f**cking loser. You don’t even know what a seedbox is…see ya!!!

  • LilSoulBro

    I really don’t understand this crying these people are doing now. I mean if The Pirate Bay can try to find a way to improve the technology and make it legal at the same time, wouldn’t that be a good thing. I feel like people jumping ship are being hypocritical, because you are resistant to change. You rather rely on the same old technology that will be obsolete because your mind can’t wrap around the fact that the TPB owners have to think of themselves in certain situations. I don’t know the average age of TorrentFreak or TPB users but if you guys are that young then you will understand that you have to make financial (or business if you own one someday) that will make a difficult transition. Though I used the TPB, them finding an alternative is a good thing. What is the big allure of being illegal anyway? It seems like you guys drank the kool-aid of the pirate marketing scheme creating in your head.

  • The Big JRD

    Hey B-Swarm, I’ve been doing this for a lot of years and have shared over a Terrabyte of info, most of it through Noid. When you get your facts straight come back and play.

    TPB is done, at least for now Noid is safe.

  • UltraleetJ

    unfounded claims… who says this company are slaveowners? geez… you guys are the best for sensationalism. I do agree with #17 . Only time will tell. For those of you that think its the end of the world, chill. It will happen, eventually. It might even happen tomorrow! This is called entrepeneurship and people think that’s a bad thing… a bunch of teenagers who have no idea about running businesses. Unfortunately you need money and this is true whether you like it or not. You need money to buy foods, you need it to survive, and that is not a good case since organizations that seem to work out of their own merits and heart do not (lawyers, hospitals, churches). In some way they’ll suckt eh money out of you, whether it’d be directly, (donations) or indirectly (government taxation). This is something you must all learn–only a friend that knows you inside out will do things because he or she likes you, but that’s it. Besides them, No ONE ELSE WILL.

  • dairRIAA

    In the meantime if you can’t delete your account just yet, you can change all the file details/descriptions to reflect jibberish. ;)

  • Drugs

    Also, how do they know the MPAA or RIAA or one of those group are behind the buy? They’ve been threatened, taken to court, servers raided and other crap and they always remained open which obviously pissed off the MPAA/RIAA. So…if they can’t make them close it like that, why not buy them out and turn the site into a “legal” one. Really, I could see the RIAA or something jumping out in a few months to say they were behind the buyout. To me it makes perfect sense since they couldn’t get it to close down any other way.

    Good job Peter, I used to admire you, respect you, looked up to you as an internet activist, I felt like you would fight for all of us, pirates, and the freedom of the internet but I was wrong. Peter, you just made the RIAA/MPAA and all those other groups NUT all over themselves. They’re probably getting drunk as we speak in celebration. Way to go

  • SNF

    http://www.whatsnext.se/2009/06/30/podcast-with-peter-sunde-on-the-ggfs-accquisition-of-the-pirate-bay/

    It’s in english

    There you have the storie from the horses-mouth himself. Make your own mind up.

    Stupidity Never Fails

  • dairRIAA

    It’s over. Move on people. There’s nothing to see here.

  • never will stop pirating

    what would be the “business model”?
    that is just BS to cover that they want us to pay to download stuff
    NEVER
    fuck TPB
    I will never pay for anything I download.
    Yarrrrr!!!

  • Vince

    y harlo thar hans!

    hxxp://www.linkedin.com/pub/hans-pandeya/10/617/31b

    Hope everything is going fine in India.

    Hans Pandeya
    14 Satya Niketan
    New Delhi, 110021, India
    ring ring: 91-11-410 33 71
    Email: hanspandeyaAThotmailDOTcom

  • derrick

    @53 you have no IDEA what you’re talking about. Go f**k yourself.

  • Voice of History

    Wanna do something? Don’t keep QQing about how TPB soldout, stop crying and start ACTING. TBP Sucks now? Make a tracker and stand up against the bullshit storm from RIAA and it’s friends. Really, a retarded 4 year old could set up a torrent tracker in less than a day. Can’t do that? Won’t be able to “fight copyright” by downloading hundreds of songs each day? Then STFU and GTFO.

    The piracy won’t be taken down by TPB disappearing (as it surely will, no doubt the plan of it’s founders who wish to focus on politics, and not allowing you to share Ben Affleck movies). This, ofcourse, shall mark the end of torrent P2P as we know it. Someone will create a new protocol, or simply make it popular, or adapt BT to become even less centralized. We will keep sharing. But, if you really want to do it, stop CRYING, stop thinking you are safe behind your VPN because you are not.

    Corporations will take down trackers as long as they have the law and the manipulated masses on their side.

  • oops

    let’s all got eXeem !!!!
    lol

  • oops

    i mean goto

  • sjena

    What if Pirates bought all the shares and wanted it to remain the same? They would have to if they want to keep their shareholders happy!

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  • Drugs

    @65

    That’s actually a good idea. But like previously said, TPB didn’t even approach the users first in seeing how much in donations they could get or see how their users could help which is what bothers me. Compared to this, I would have easily donated $20 and been happy.

  • dudemeister

    easy for you cunts to talk behind your monitors on how the guys sold out.

    You fuckers don’t have any pressure on your asses from the RIAA or any government and none of you got fined a million dollars.

    Why don’t you all shut the fuck up and go find another tracker. You do realize TPB is hardly the best out there, and the community is shit.

  • P2P Worshiper

    I agree whit #57 TPB is dead or will be dead soon.
    This is nothing else, than a hostile company take over, my company are doing this almost everyday to keep the market prices up by buying out other company’s that can make the same products cheaper than us.
    Last year we buy out 2 companies and this year we close them, by simple telling the peeps that that there company’s are to week due to the Financial Crisis

    And all behind this is the MPAA or what so ever regime that RATT’S hole, thy just got a weak company that thy can use for this company take over model.

    I just read on a another page that some Swedish medias started a quick close look up on the until won unknown company (Global Gaming Factory X), and it came out that the company only have an income of only 900’000 SKR (swedich krovn) in year.

    So Please tell me how the FUC can they by 2 company’s at once of a total value of 160’000’000 SKR

    And 160mill SKR is nothing to the Mpaa/Riaa WHORES

  • Pirates Anonymous

    Just because Demonoid is now in Ukraine doesn’t mean jack…

    Demonoid really really sucks though your right man, wow all you displaces Pirates might want to find new waters.
    But oh yea, Demonoid sucks, totally bad site, no torrents, bad seeders, just terrible ;-)
    .Lamer.

    I have stopped using TPB since January and will never look back.
    It was phun while it lasted.
    I just hope I can finish d\ling my grateful dead shows :-(

  • Amfortas

    @49 So TPB is finally going to implement the account deletion. That’s cool.

    Not that I ever actually uploaded any torrents there… Better to be safe than sorry.

  • Just Me

    @ B-Swarm

    That ‘seedbox’ comment at me?

    I rent out seedboxes and servers to folk like you and your private-tracker holier-than-thou friends.

    Thank you :)

  • Brilliant Death

    Buy shares in the site? Yeah, sure, why not just turn it into another damn capitalist franchise. I hope everyone jumps ship. Hopefully someone with integrity will start up another similar tracker.

  • B-Swarm

    LOL…silly kunt…f**k off…Is that holy enough for you…cock sucker

  • pirateprideWW

    All aboard the failboat. Well, it was good while it lasted, Pirate Bay. Thanks for the memories!

    Now it’s up to the rest of us to continue their mission. Let’s not take it as a defeat! The future of “piracy” should be bright.

  • eseen

    “i was a fan because of their audacity. TPB was a symbol of pirate ideals and righteousness (whether that’s good or bad). TPB doing something like this seems contrary to what they stood for. So it sucks.”

    signed.

  • The Big JRD

    Please derrick, tell me what I have no idea about, please educate me.

    See if you can do it in intelligent sentances without using the f word as an adjective, adverd, noun and verb.

    Ah, who am I kidding, you couldn’t.

  • Just Me

    Hee hee hee

  • B-Swarm

    sentances* adverd* intelligent? imbecile ;)

  • The Big JRD

    I know you are B-Swarm, but I still have hope for an intelligent comment from you.

    Come on I know you can do it stud muffin

  • truth

    So in the other words …

    They sold their database with all users and data about their ips and logs to private company that can be running by the goverment or something worst?

    Why they simply did not give logs to judge when they asked for it at first?

  • Anon Coward

    In the end, it’s always about the money. For all of the spouting about how TPB isn’t going to go away, we now see what we’ve all suspected… it was just a matter of time.

    Corporate ownership/involvement means a responsibility to follow the law. Make no mistake, TPB is dead.

    Large P2P/downloading/pirating resources are self-defeating. Popularity = target = death. The more visible a site is, the closer it is to being taken down.

  • Boo

    Bye Bye TBP,

    Goodbye freedom.

    Bookmark removed.

    Fascism is back in Europe.

  • lodk

    deleting my torrents

  • neostylez

    Oh well hopefully this will evolve..

    Its better this happens now than later..

    Them cats were bored with TPB and it started to make alot of trouble for them..

    they changed the world and now its no longer changing the world, its time they moved on to something else.. thats just what they do.. sure they have there beliefs and morals.. but sometimes you have to put them aside in order to progress..

    it sux but hopefully things will evolve into something better..

    One thing is for sure.. there is a giant block of traffic that can only be harvested by the same ideas TPB had.. who will take the pirate booty?

  • neostylez

    Also whats more amazing is the fact that alot of these idiots think that ‘DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT’ and ‘DELETING TORRENTS OR CHANGE INFO’ will do absolutely anything..

    seriously are you all brain dead idiots?

    So lets say there ARE logs.. which TPB has always said there is not.. but lets just say there is..

    you think deleting your account will somehow change the logs that you were never there..?

    Seriously tho.. if you believe for 1 millisecond that doing anything other than FORGETTING is going to help you.. you need to seriously shoot yourself in the face.

    I am a network engineer.. its sad to see people smart enough to download torrents yet so dumb they don’t understand the first thing about traffic logging.. you idiots are not pirates.. your parasites.. your exactly what TPB never needed.. just extra trash hogging up bandwidth and giving NONE of it back.

    I guarantee every one of you retards that is screaming there heads off to delete account is a leecher hit and runner.

    Please do delete your crap, would be nice to know how many people arent as f*cking brain dead as you twats.

  • jessica

    For some reason i cant comment on TPB blog, thx god for TF.

    anyway one user posted over there:
    “I would spit in all your faces if I met you on the street.”

    i would do more. Kick them in the balls and throw them in the river with a strong weight on their feet!

    They didn’t just make a mockery of themselves & abandon their principle. They didn’t just make a mockery of ALL OF US by NOT even MENTIONING or CONSULTING with us the “users” that you so proudly claim to see value in, NOR DID you even ASK US to help..so HOW DARE YOU say that the ideal would be for US to own TPB when you GAVE US ZERO OPTION to, ZERO WARNING, & ZERO GODDAMN RESPECT.

    Not only ALL of the above.. YOU (TPB) made a MOCKERY OF FREEDOM.. of STEAL THIS FILM: ONE, TWO, and the Final version not even out yet.. which u were so heavily featured in as PROTAGONISTS to OUR CAUSE..to freeing humanity.

    So, if you wanna die in disrespect that’s your sad, sadistic choice.

    But if you EVER want us to even BEGIN to think of you as trustworthy OR earn a MORSEL of our respect again.. you’d better DAMN WELL SOLVE ONCE AND FOR ALL the encroachments on our liberties online..

    ..THAT’s what it would take for me to respect you guys again. you REALIZE how much HIGHER our expectations of you are now that you’ve done these things. & If you don’t then KINDLY FUCK OFF OR AT LEAST SHARE WITH US HOW TO MAKE OUR OWN BLOODY (but not TURNCOAT) Pirate Bays.. you fu**ing c**ksuckers.

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  • Brokep

    making money of the work of authors and the entertainment industry… millions of euros

    selling t-shirts to ‘support’ our ‘noble’ case… thousands of euros

    selling the pirate bay to a random company… 5.5 million euros

    seeing all the little filesharers cry…priceless

  • Fuzzypig

    Here’s a scenario for you losers to think about.

    So TPB family memeber sets up a company 6 months ago in the name of GGF, then buys TPB site, this pushes the stock of GGF through the roof. Buys TPB back, closes GGF!

    Simple and brilliant!

  • Anonymous

    now were to get porn from?

  • Andre

    Shut the fuck up you fucking faggots, don’t know what you’re talking about. TPB was great and is great. There has been no real change as you can see you assholes.
    Also bother reading what the fuck it says? Just new tracker from some new developer? Big deal, no one needs to hear your fucking idiotic opinion about stuff that you don’t even know about.

    @ Boo & Lodk:
    Screw it! Looks like Peter Sunde decided to make some money. SO FUCK THE WHOLE FUCKING TPB… or not. Fuck off you twats.

    @ neostylez:
    Totally agreed! Mate!

  • GrX

    their new message makes me laugh about them not being happy with our comments dont worry keep sharing and keep seeding.

    then i got thinking they are hoping to god more seed so thus company can see all the lovely users on the site doing what they do best provide bandwidth between them and the tracker.

    so brokep wants us to keep seeding and sharing and leeching… i bet he does because he knows damn well if people stop seeding leeching and leave the site or tracker this new legal business and firm will be thinking twice,

    want to show some kind of anger its easy and it will make this outfit think about not buying into the userbase

    do the opposite what brokep asks stop seeding stop transferring stop leeching,

    All your doing is making damn sure he is going to make this company see there is a profitable userbase business at the piratebay

    it’s like brokeps own little showroom, while us sheep have gone though hell and highwater with our purchased and private bandwidth helped them get millions of pounds.

    we put our necks on the line risked everything we have on sharing because without uploaders his site would be useless fact.

    now this is how they are planning on repaying you all??

    it’s pathetic

  • mahmudul islam

    if i can’t download torrents from TPB then i will be dying, no matter what happens to pirate bay’s policy. please the torrent community shouldn’t stop sharing torrent files by any means. that would be a disaster, don’t u think?

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  • Anonymous

    man if this happens im going to get whole of 4chan behind me and DDOS that damn site every day

  • FatGiant

    “June 2009.

    This month brought us the end of freedom on the Internet. A few attempts were made afterwards, but, after the death of The Pirate Bay, sold by it’s owners to a MAFIAA disguised company, never again freedom was possible on the Internet.

    You, dear reader, that has lived all your life in a monetized world, can’t possibly understand the importance of free sharing of files, culture and FUN. Yes, for FREE, can’t imagine it can’t you?

    All that died on the 30th of June 2009. And will never happen again.

    OpenSourced Free software, was the next target, and although they fighted it for several years, they too have been bought.”

    Excerpt of Wikipedia PRO Premium, posted on June 2039, by ME. The proof of pay-to-post is included at the bottom.

  • Anonymous

    Just you wait until all the TPB shares are bought by the RIAA.

  • mellon

    Time to go more anonymous Here is alot on this page.

    http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=47700&p=523201#p523201

  • dairRIAA

    AND whose to say the “gaming” company isn’t just about ready to be sold to the RIAA/MPAA huh?

    Sounds like a perfect plan. ;)

    Napster II!

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  • mustangx

    I would have happily contributed to the TPB fine fund if there was one and it was an option to keepin the Bay alive. I have my own site and trackers so I’ll not be missing anything from the Bay BUT they have been the heart and soul of the torrent world and it will affect us all in one way, shape or form.

  • Anonymous
  • 7SeVeN7

    WinMX World Download: http://patch.winmxconex.com
    the real and only decentralized file sharing…..

  • Mr Right

    I hate to break this to all of you but torrent have been dying for awhile the future is direct download using totally free services like megashare,rs,megaupload etc.

  • anonymous

    Sounds like the story of Napster all over agian.

  • DaRealanonymous

    HaHa!! bound to happen, You can never really fight the all mighty dollar (or Kronos)

  • DaRealanonymous

    Oh and The Direct DL sites are next well, that can only last for so long.
    hahaha

  • sc3ne

    what an awesome day!!!! p2p is lame!

  • Spogelse

    @#94 and others, the RIAA doesn’t “buy” things as it’s not a company, only an industry representative guising as protector of the artists.

    Neither do I think GGF is backed by RIAA/MPAA/IFPI. IFPI et alii all but won the case, so there’s no reason for this humdrum. I’m more inclined to believe Hans Pandeya saw an opportunity to suck TPB dry and eat the remaining flesh off its bones.

    I have no idea how he wants to get his ROI, ever, given that all pirates will jump ship.

  • Anon

    its called private trackers. google it and stop crying

  • Jodi Ratsford

    Ehh.. if that site goes down, it’s easy to find stuff everywhere. I usually find an easy survey on zoomtorrents.com and get a code. It usually lasts for a day or so, which is plenty of time for me to get what I need from them (usually). Speeds are great and they have a nice selection. Apparently they were getting killed though with their Michael Jackson stuff, as everyone wanted it. http://www.zoomtorrents.com/?file=MJ_Full_Discography-With-Artwork

  • JJ

    mmm…have just been reading some of the responses to the TPB blog posts regarding this story and the reaction from the community has been venomous.

    There is quite a bit of anxiety out there but we have to put things into perspective. The Pirate Bay isnt about technology, the tpb domain or even P2P. It is a civil disobedience movement that goes beyond the website and P2P…the symbols of this movement are the Pirate Bay founders, the Pirate Party, the community and a few logos that can be associated with movement. This is the true value of the TPB. This new company will (without a doubt) kill the TPB website because corporate greed will not mesh with the users of the website, users will drthe site and it will die…thats not a big deal, what is important is that the SYMBOLS continue, the community continues and the founders of TPB focus there energies on new projects that will strengthen the overall movement…thats what is important.

    I think the best think Peter Sunde could do is focus on iPredator and start up another “improved” tracker of sorts…call it Pirate.com.

    Good luck Peter and friends…will follow your exploits closely and support all you do.

    J

  • Anon

    Making deals with the devil…

  • zammy

    sell-outs.

    and now i bet people in sweden are wondering why they voted for the pirate party.

    ~Z

  • JJ

    No deal with the devil, they sold the devil a soon to be empty vessel. The devil is going to be pretty pissed when the community jumps ship…and Peter will have a couple of mil to start up something else…worthwhile!

    I think Peter knew full well that people would react like this and jump ship…the TPB website will be worth jack in 6 months time…

    The TPB founders can then spend their booty on buying a new, faster and stronger…errrr “ship”

  • Le Fake

    Decentralized Kademlia will be my choice from now on..

  • edit

    Why is everyone acting like TPB owes them some personal debt?

    They set up a site. They helped you download tihngs. They got sued to high heaven by transnational MAFIAAs, they sell up.

    Even if (and I really don’t think they will) they use the money to pay their debts, they don’t make a profit.

    And still you’ve lost nothing. Why are you all crying about it? It’s sad, it’s a shame. It’s not a betrayal.

  • Anonymous

    ===================
    !! NO SALE – BOYCOTT TPB !!
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    !! NO SALE – BOYCOTT TPB !!
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    idiot sellouts, all I can say

  • Bryan C

    ===================
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    This one’s to you TPB. I guess you are mere mortals and have a price just like anybody else…

  • JesusHatesLies

    WinMX is a great network if you dont mind sitting for days in queues waiting for your D/L to start. Great community tho…

  • RIP TPB

    And I hope they’ll suffer a huge loss in the next part of the trial so they don’t walk away rich from this sell out.

    IOW I hope the fines will be adjusted up.

  • TPBisowned

    Get on private trackers you knuckle heads..this is why RIAA will be contacting you public tracker users and be sending you an email suing your ass..TPB was doomed years ago,now it’s a data base to track all your dumb asses who DL from that site

  • Pirates Anonymous

    Calm down, Jesus its like Bit torrent was blocked? WTF?
    Who cares – seriously there are way better trackers out there. Piratebay is usually the last place i’d look.
    Use google…

  • justcanceledtoday

    many others, like myself, being usure of TPB have canceled their accounts – how about TF (enigmax?) do an article to see how many users TPB lost since their announcement? Of course, many Bay users are clueless . . . still – it might show the “consumer confidence” of TPB and their future “value.”

  • pZ

    TiAMO, Brokep, Anakata… Traitors? or? Or just abandoning the ship with treasure, to build new ones, and to win the WAR on RIAA,MPAA,BSA?

  • P2P Worshiper

    Yes you all have right that the pirate bay is more than the site it self or the P2P technology.

    But this STUPID MORRONS of SWEDISH TPB crew, they not only sold the Beacon of Hope for FREEDOM, thy also betrayed the whole community that was behind the pirate bay symbol.

    And this stupid monkey face Peter Sunde dare even to say that he is disappointed by the users.

    WTF shall we say, that we are happy about that what this MPAA goat suckers did to the world’s community.

    I don’t even dear to dream about what this sale of TPB would do to the Morale and Hope for every other torrent site, and the P2P community world wide.

    And not only the betrayed the community the also, set an clear signal to the Pirate Party, that thy don’t care about what all this was about, and why the Europe almost in every country made a Pirate Party.
    It was not for the illegal file-sharing, but is was for the freedom, and the signal that the Big Multi Billions Company’s just can’t do what they want, and that they are not above the Law.

    So YES BOYCOT The Pirate Bay for what they just did, because this is very very bad and sad.

  • Bryan C

    @115

    WinMX!!!! I had no idea that POS was still in existence! I remember back in the day waiting a few hours to DL a simple song LOL! Now for songs, I use Cabos – an open source program that is integrated nicely with iTunes and i <3 it!

  • raidz

    I knew this would happen eventually. These guys have always been in it for the money. Glad I don’t rely on shitty p2p sites/engines for my stuff.

    Congrats TPB, you successfully lied to millions of your users.

  • raidz

    Also, I find it hilarious they are only suffering a minor DDos attack. All the big guys could care less. They knew TPB was shit.

  • TerribleTony

    Something doesn’t add up here…

  • Hom3r

    While I do trust peter, I don’t see how this could turn out any good…

  • mnn

    Maybe they just waited when to back out of this war against copyright holders, and they just needed “the right price”.

  • JesusHatesLies

    by Pirates Anonymous

    Calm down, Jesus its like Bit torrent was blocked? WTF

    I was replying to another post that said they would go back to WiNMX.
    If you had read all posts you would have known. (Twatt)

  • PS

    Only fight the battles you know you can win.

    Tracker based P2P is dead…too easy to target. Saving the internets requires better kung-fu.

  • Fuckin ell

    Dear lord some of you people are depressing. Telling us what should happen; yet you do fuck all! Other people should start a tracker huh? I know you lazy fucks, why dont you do it instead of bellyaching?

    If you have the audacity to call a group of guys who set up the largest tracker in the world, went to court, fought and ended up looking at jail time plus millions in fines “sellouts” etc; whilst all you’ve done is download free shit for years… well… you are a cnut! A massive cnut.

    If you think you can do better, do it.

    Why not wait and see what yesterdays internet super heros have planned eh? Instead of casting them as todays scum. Stop acting like histronic tw@ts. Those guys at TPB did you all right for a fair few years didnt they; care to give them a few more months?

  • dairRIAA

    WinMX. *sigh* The good times of waiting in a queue for days just to download one measily mp3 file.

    Them were the days!

  • Riiight

    Do you honestly believe they have given up? Stupid morons..

    The man who said that he would rather burn all he owns than give IFPI money has given up?

    I know this will not be the last we will see to these guys, they are pioneers and they deserve the respect.

    I knew TPB were doomed and so do alot of you guys.. We saw that the ship was sinking but we couldn’t believe it. Now they sold a deathsailor and are moving on so instead of giving them disrespect wait and see what there next are.

    Stupid little children how shows disrespect to the tpb owners.

  • Art

    time to move on people. raise anchor and sail on.

  • Youngdand

    tonight the jolly roger flies at half mast.

  • buddy

    Its a Load of rubbish put out AGAIN by pirate bay to keep us all interested….

    Some kind of stupid PR stunt that these guys seem to get a kick out of…..

    In short….bullshit.

  • PTO

    lol @ butthurt people here

  • mister_playboy

    This is the most disappointing thing I have ever read on TF

    TPB have done a complete 180 and are total sellouts.

  • dairRIAA

    I’m wondering when I can start paying for ringtones off TPB web site.

    xD!

  • Anon

    Who in their right mind would finance such a thing. MPAA and RIAA will jump on GGF’s throat the second it changes hands. There is no guarantee that any business model that GGF put out will be accepted by the copyright holders. Secondly Peter said its all about the people, well they’re leaving in droves and deleting their trackers. So they might not get what they want anyway.

  • todd

    GGF and the RIAA have also hired PR firms to aid in their propaganda campaign. The only question is. Are you guys going to buy the propaganda?

  • chill winston

    @dudemeister.
    Ah think your being a bit harsh there.
    I would join some peeps in saying that TPB guys have been promising to fight till the end and then even further. Remember when they all said no matter what happens TPB will live on. So there is peeps frustration in a nutshell. If they are selling out IIIFFFFFF then its a sad day and if it was all to much for the lads @TPB then fair play. Just dont come out and say nonsense like its going to be better and suchlike. Just say we tried with the bewst intentions to fight all the way but we have given up the ghost and we are really sorry, we fought a brave fight and lost. I personally would congratulate them for what they have done up till now and thank them for an outstanding performance over the last few years.
    But like everything else with TPB we are not seeing the whole picture here and everything is only speculation, smoke and mirrors. As always things will unfold when the time is right. Be cautious? Yes. Be foolish? No.

  • todd

    #138…GGF = RIAA. Do you really think the RIAA would allow a software company to just jump in and buy TPB? hahaha. RIAA has probably 10x more money than most software companies. Come on. YOu really think GGF is a legit company?

  • todd

    To Peter Sunde and TPB owners

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  • RIP

    well, wow, they’ve committed a special form of sepuku. Not uncommon, but very unfortunate.

    I mean not everybody loved The Pirate Bay, but it was almost universally respected for what it represented. What the very people who founded it are about to be the most detested internet characters for managing to ruin it.

    If they don’t do something to firmly reassure the community one of the greatest modern age brands will meet a very sad demise.

    Btw. Guess who will be more than happy to provide the financial “backing” to buy the site

  • Amfortas

    I see they finally implemented the account deletion. Go to https://thepiratebay.org/settings to remove your account. Not sure if it will help you very much though as one of the previous posters already stated.

  • todd

    to #108, PETER SUNDE AND TPB OWNERS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED !!!!

  • todd

    and to #144, why the fuck would any smart person go LOGIN to an RIAA owned website like ThePirateBay and then delete his account. hahaha. You have to first login to delete your account you idiot which basically defeats the points of deleting your account as there will be a log with your IP address connecting you to deleting that account. DUH.

  • Terrance

    Well, as someone who works in the film industry, it is good to see that all hope is not lost. I knew as soon as these four thieves that run TPB were convicted that their game would soon be over.

    It just took a little swipe with the “long arm of the law” to shut them up and make them go running home to their mommies.

    What, no more smart-mouth responses posted on their site? Nothing to say to a year in jail?? Nothing to say to a huge fine?? Yea, not so tough when the real world comes knocking.

    Well, I for one, can be very gracious to all four of you and would like to welcome you to the “very well off” social stratus of the world. You’re going to enjoy being rich much more than you liked being pirates.

  • Anonymous

    They owe 30 million dollars in fines. They had no way to pay that except to sell the site. Simple as that. Any positive talk from people at TPB is just to keep the deal from falling through.

  • Daffy Domo

    Wow, not a bad score, not nad at all. For that kinda money, I’d bail too!

    RT
    http://www.complete-privacy.tk

  • RIP

    @146 Go shove yourself to the elbow Terrance

  • pZ

    @146: even if we assume TPB rose the white flag for money… sank the ship… and left the war for good… … … the warez must flow… 0DAY ANiME APPS AUDiOBOOKS COVERS DOX DREAMCAST DVDR DiVX EBOOKS GAMECUBE GAMES IMAGESET MDVDR MViDS PS1 PS2 PS3 PSP PSX PSXPSP SAMPLES SUBPACK SVCD TRAILERS TV VCD WII XBOX XBOX360 XViD x264 XXX UNKNOWN

  • mnn

    @144: I wouldn’t believe it “really” deletes accounts…

  • Anonymous Coward

    This is a sad day for the bittorrent community. However who can blame them really for that amount of money. We would all hope they would not sell out but we can’t really blame them. It’s one pretty big carrot.

  • Incredible.Pie

    TPB: You suck, traitors. Sellouts. Pieces of shit.

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  • d

    The King is dead (pirate bay). Long live the King! (isohunt, mininova)

  • 2-faced bay

    DELETE YOUR ACCOUNTS they will be property of GGF otherwise….

  • Let The DOS Attacks Begin..

    Let The DOS Attacks Begin..
    Fug u TPB

    It was the people that uploaded torrents and shared them that made you what you were!

    Fuk the TPB

  • Postoasted

    The PB as a tracker was ok. For individual users such as myself trying to search for the right torrent on the PB was often hit and miss. Their other site BayImg is a mess. For sure to get their site up to speed they would have to invest more. With plans for a VideoBay product I could see their need for investment capital. Right now I’m going to give them the benefit of a doubt and wish them good luck.

  • Dave – usenet guy

    Thepiratebay lost the big trial, that was when it died. They had always said in replies to lawyers that they’re legal under Swedish law. Now they can’t say that any more. The only option was to sell-out to avoid a huge loss and debt for the owners.

    I always thought they shouldn’t have stood and fought in the courts. The whole system is biased against p2p sites. They want you there, the courts are their playground. You can never win. Even if you do they wear you down financially with endless appeals. For now the best solution is to run, run to another country, until the law changes. Guerilla tactics. Worked out so far for Demonoid.

  • Anonymous

    “Peter said in the past they’ve had to hide the financial details of the site and who is doing what “for legal reasons” but says that in the future there will have to be more transparency….”

    Wow. TPB is using the same tactics as the US Gov’t.

  • RIP TPB

    QUOTE:
    Tomas Wennström said that he found it crazy that TPB would become a listed company. Peter responded that they think the concept is “super funny” and that’s one of the main reasons they are doing this.
    End Quote

    Oh haha, it is soooo “super funny” to screw over millions of users who have supported you. Yeah, that’s just HILARIOUS.
    RIP TPB – I’m done.

  • DAVE

    SOMEONE BUY SLOPSBOX AND KEEP IT RUNNING

  • todd

    YEAH, everyone go login to your accounts and then delete them…that sounds like a great idea. And then call the CEO of GGF and tell him that you like to pirate movies and ask him if he’s liked to come over and watch a pirated movie with you……..you fucking retards

  • ThePwnedBay

    awww the sellouts are disappointed by the users… well, guess what? the feeling is more then mutual

  • Anonymous

    LOL @ B-Swarm

    Private trackers are some of the most insecure places out there unless you are sitting behind a heavily encrypted VPN connection.

    ALL private trackers are infiltrated by the anti-piracy organizations and if they have your IP you are screwed.

    With a private tracker you do not have as strong a case as you would have with a public tracker. The reason for this is the fact that the username+password+IP can be directly translated into one identity: You. With a public tracker they will only have your IP and that is a much better alternative from a legal standpoint.

  • Anonymous

    @ 8. The news was leaked to media, hence the hysteria..

  • Gav

    lol @ all the angry little leeches.

    Tip: If you’re worried about going to jail for something, don’t place your trust in some random swedish guys.

    I’ve been ‘file sharing’ since IRC, since Napster, WinMX, Shareaza, eDonkey, SuprNova… I’ve had to sign over my details to all of these groups. Don’t you realise that part of the ‘pirate’ attitude that TPB espoused was to, as an idividual, flout the law? It’s every man for himself.

    Entirely understandable that they’ve paid off their fines with private money, and will sail off into the sun whilst 5 or 6 other trackers vie to be the ‘face’ of bitorrent.

  • toast

    LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

    SELLOUTS. You might as well call yourselves NAPSTER 2.0 the downgrade.

    Pathetic.

    Thats ok..we are just gonna go underground. Actually we did that like a few months ago :D SUCK IT!

  • joeybagodonuts

    You guys crack me up.

    They have fines to pay – jail time – lawyers fees

    TPB was dead 6 months ago – this is the tombstone.

  • Jaime2000

    I don’t care for what that sellout has to say. The Pirate Bay we knew is dead. The pirates of the internet have been betrayed. It’s a sad day for all of us.

  • pZ

    … if u give a shit on warez security … GET VPN or P2L … but i say… i been busted 2 times… 2+3 computers lost to the police… itz just hardware… sue me

  • Anonymous

    way to sell yourself out…

    assholes

  • Anonymous

    This could be incredibly revolutionary, or incredibly tragic. Handing the site to this company could introduce the new music system we have all been dreaming of. The consumer gets his music for a reasonable price and the artist gets paid! This is something i support wholeheartedly. If a system like this is established and takes off, we will witness the toppling of RIAA and MPAA.
    It is much easier to call them sellouts from the sidelines. They deal with legal threats on a daily basis and everyone knows there name. We are part of the swarm, with a “better him than me” mentality. All nameless, playing this technological game of chicken to see how long we can go without getting caught. Those who step out of this game before getting into serious trouble are frowned upon. One less seeder, one less member, one less person to hide behind.
    I don’t particularly ENJOY the fact that thepiratebay will possibly sink, but any ship has the risk of capsizing when you throw on a couple new cannons =) I can only support what they might become.

  • noneofyourbusiness

    TPB getting sold is lame. All it means is that the “userbase” will get sold to the RIAA or the highest bidder for prosecution.

    As for the argument about this company using TPB improve the technology and use it for legal purposes… Napster came back and it was the same garbage. Who uses Napster now? No one.

    There is nothing wrong with the torrent technology. Nothing to be improved upon by ONE tracker or company. Its a distributed file sharing technology. There is nothing illegal or wrong iwth the technology. The problem lies with the files that are being shared.

    Banning or making bittorrent illegal is lke making TCP/IP netwroks illegal because the users share files that they are not supposed to. It has nothing to do with the technology, and everything to do with the users and the file content.

    Until you give people what they want how they want it (not how you want to give it to them) this problem will exist. People take the time to encode and share files that are no longer available, or hard to find, or over priced.

    You cannot compete with free. And no one is going to buy a shitty product. So stop blaming pirating for your loss of money on shitty movies and music.

    The music industry needs to start offering Lossless Audio files from Masters (not mastered for CD then digitized) So long as MP3′s (the VHS of the digital music era) rule then there is nothing worth paying for.

    And with that I’m off to buy some Vinyl. :D

  • Anonymous

    From brokep on Twitter:

    “I fucking cried earlier that people don’t understand us.”

  • g0bbl3

    NEWS FLASH! IFPI etc set to buy all TPB shares! they spend more cash on company sodas in one month then it would cost to own a majority share in TPB.

  • Anon

    Pirate Bay should be renamed to Pirate Submarine :D

  • Anony

    @170 Its already available http://www.mangatune.com

  • Anony
  • sellout

    ======== They SOLD pb for 8 MILLION bucks. ========
    ^nuff said
    I hope they enjoy their time in jail.

  • Anonymous

    it would be even funnier if after the sale of the pirate bay they are more liable by the courtes for financial penalties and have to pay all that money right back to the copyright buyers who bought the site.

    looks like tpb is walking the plank itself.

  • Anonymous

    They were only ordered to pay $3 million, so even after paying it they still come out making money.

  • 900Gigsofdownloadedstuff

    I will just switch to another site. They act like it is a big deal. They can do what they want. They are not the only game in town.

  • Anonymous

    Torrents are being deleted like crazy!!! The horror!!!

  • Anonymous

    its not the copyright infringement itself thats the biggest deal though, its when you make money off of copyright infringement. just because they were ordered to pay 3 million in fines, does not mean they are clear.

    it would be great to lobby the swedish courts to look further into this and now prove pirate bay was in it for the profit. it just makes them a whole lot more liable.

  • 2-faced bay

    this is a larger issue

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/06/30/tech-pirate-party-canada.html#socialcomments

    This is about media corporations using economic clout to pressure a sovereign nation into bankrupting an obstacle to a source of revenue, I would not be surprised to find out if the MPAA handed the money to GGF to pay TPB to pay the MPAA back!

    The same law changes in Sweden that allowed this to happen are coming to Canada, and so is the Pirate Party!

    This is corporate collusion in sovereign law – what next? Annexing the Czech Republic and invading the Sudetenland?!!!

  • ha ha ha

    lolling my a off

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  • pepper

    this is the death of the pirate bay

  • Trev

    I find it amusing that all the pricks on here shouting sellouts, are the same fuckers who want to delete their accounts and their trackers and don’t want to get caught and are jumping ship…blah..blah..blah.

    At least the guys from TPB had the fucking BOLLOCKS to go to court and give it a go. Most just fold up and roll over and the users that were shouting “yeah go TPB” during the trial run like fuck and hide behind their computers, shivering and hoping they don’t get caught.

    When some of the cowardly motherfuckers on here get the fucking courage to go to court and fight, then you come back and shout sellouts. Until then, shut the fuck up and stop badmouthing people that at least tried to stand up for your rights.

  • Anonymous

    Necessity is the mother of invention.

    Copyright protestors will live on!

  • Frank

    I fail to see what is “super funny” in selling TPB…

  • tpb downn111111123

    ha ha ha,

    your pirate bay Gods are now corporate whores.

    selling you and your information out to the same people you all protested against!!!

  • tpb downn1111111234

    DELETE EVERY TORRENT YOU EVER UPLOADED TO TPB. DONT LET THEM GET RICH OFF OF US!!

  • Anonymous

    Here are some words:

    Decentralized, encrypted, anonymous networks.

    What you can’t see you can’t fight.

  • Skittles

    Sometimes your fancy pirate ship get so damn beat up and full of holes you just gotta grab your plunder and abandoned ship. Hopefully, they’ll buy a new ship! Or better yet just steal one!

    Hopefully….

  • tpb downn1111111234

    i thought the pirate bay was fighting against corporate rule and greed? did they just join in ?

  • ICE

    F*ck you Peter sunde who did big claims in court about keeping the site running with all decentralized servers and all shit if you didn’t have balls at least you should have sold a site to demonoid or other torrent sites this is really big slap in the face of all users who trusted TPB and now 50% of torrents are going to stop working from August i guess i hope some good tracker comes along now.Because TPB is sure gone now.

    RIP TPB those 3 assholez didn’t deserve you.

  • Skittles

    Also to all the people saying that the TPB crew is making money since they only had to pay 3mil, its 3mil EACH, except for that 1 guy who got 2oddmill. They’re only being payed exactly how much they need to all be free from the courts and ready for the next push.

  • rc232

    Fuck this. I had faith in TPB. This is just fucking horrible. If the king of P2P sells out, who’s next? God fucking damn it.

    THE PIRATE BAY IS DEAD

    this is not what it was ever meant to be

  • Kyle

    Don’t believe it.. it wants your email address… it said yesterday that my account had the wrong password, and then asked me to email them, lol. That’s not suspicious or anything!

  • tpb downn11111112345

    basically, the pirate bay wants you to steal and upload for them to make them rich off of advertising,

    plus they want you to now invest your money in a company we never heard of by buying TPB stocks to lose your money!!!

    This is deception. the only reason why tpb was successful was because you could pirate without buying. now that a corporation is taking over, they will change that and all of tpb supporters will bail out.

    tpb and the corporation will keep your stock money invested and claim the stock dropped.

    i saw tpb’s con game from the beginning as i knew they were puppets for that billionaire guy!

    don’t fall for the biggest scam on the internet. BOYCOTT THE PIRATE BAY!!!!

  • PUNNYTOTO

    #193,
    you are misinformed. the total must be paid by all four convicted which is 3.6 million collectively, not 3.6 mil each.

    they still are not free from the case as the opponents have appealed also for more money. plus there’s the jail time if the charges are not dropped.

    they are still fucked ans they are taking all of you down with them to save their own asses.

    the most VALUABLE ASSET IS THE IP ADDRESSES OF THE USERS WHICH MEANS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LAWSUITS FOR THE MPAA, RIAA, AS THEY CAN NOW PURSUE YOU IN COURT.

    ITS TIME FOR A MASS EXODUS FROM THE PIRATE BAY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!

  • Dgtlx.com

    Well, the TPB guys had to do something otherwise they would go to jail over and over again. One solution would be to close the tracker and then let TPB homepage be a meta-search engine.

    This may be a great way to solve the situation but unfortunately I’m not sure it is. In Swedish newspaper some info about the buyer has become public and it isn’t good news. The buyer seem to be a rather suspicious guy. We have to wait to see whatever this will save TPB or not, probably it won’t, I think.

  • PsyCoSys

    I have now removed all my torrents and my account with Pirate Bay.

    You should do the same.

    What do you think will happen when “they” take over and studies all the old torrents and what YOU have uploaded over the years.

    DO NOT SUPPORT THE “NEW” PIRATE BAY

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  • IP101

    R.I.P TPB, thank you for the years and I hope to hear something new in some years!! Enjoy your money and take a nice payed vacation.!! AMEN!!

  • Zits

    While it is always possible the Bay has sold out to the **AA’s, I don’t consider this likely. I think that TPB is up to something else that we probably have not considered.

    TPB: “tpb is the only thing sold, the other systems and sites are kept. And there will be more trackers that we support.”

    It is premature to turn on the Bay. The old ship-website may be sold off to give birth to mini-ships, multiple targets to give the MafiAA grief.

  • Pirate Boy

    This is like when Superman died. In the coming months expect many new torrent sites to pop up and try to fill the void, most of these will fall by the wayside or turn out to be villainous fakes. But Superman always returns.

    As The Pirate Bay was born from the ashes of Napster, I eagerly await to see what beautiful phoenix will rise from the ashes of The Pirate Bay.

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  • Ripper

    @170 Anonymous

    It is much easier to call them sellouts from the sidelines. They deal with legal threats on a daily basis and everyone knows there name. We are part of the swarm, with a “better him than me” mentality. All nameless, playing this technological game of chicken to see how long we can go without getting caught. Those who step out of this game before getting into serious trouble are frowned upon. One less seeder, one less member, one less person to hide behind.

    Well said.. To read the responses on this forum makes me ashamed. These guys have fought for US, for years, and now this is the way that they are being thanked for it.

    Handing the site to this company could introduce the new music system we have all been dreaming of. The consumer gets his music for a reasonable price and the artist gets paid! This is something i support wholeheartedly. If a system like this is established and takes off, we will witness the toppling of RIAA and MPAA.

    Again, well said, but the majority on here (with ages in single figures and an IQ to match) are not interested if it doesn’t come for free. They can’t see any further than that. I doubt whether any of them have even read past the headline of these articles. Hit and run leeches.

  • Beorling

    I mourn the death of TPB, I dont believe in the idea of paid torrents. On the other side i wouldnt dream of blaming TPB owners. They have done their fair share for the community and I believe Peter Sunde when he says that the team is tired and wants a vacation. Thanks for the good work TPB team and hopefully we will see you in the future.

  • Hime

    So basically The Pirate Bay claimed that they would never back down or sell out and that they’d always come back, etc..and then at the first hint of a jail sentence (which Brokep admitted himself he didn’t expect…) they run away like scared little kids. Just after the verdict Brokep said that even if he had the money to pay off his fines, he wouldn’t. If they aren’t planning on paying then why are they selling?

    Man, what a bunch of hypocrites. Don’t get me wrong, *I* would give up my site at the threat of jail time too…but I wouldn’t have claimed that I would never give it up. What TPB should have said from the get go was that they’ll take the site as far as they can without risking any actual threat to their own lives. Because that’s exactly how it played out. There was no reason to act tougher than they were, nobody wants to go to prison for a year of their lives over a torrent site.

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  • We Are Legion

    @ 189 Trev

    Well said

  • Thepiratebay

    All people who care a bit about uploaders who bring the most valuable content on Thepiratebay (pirates) must delete their account or upload only shit (virus, fake, porn). The others, one awaits you at every turn.

  • The People’s Voice

    I am *very* weary about this whole situation. Could play out to be a great change, but at this time it looks like TPB as we know it will soon cease to exist. :-(

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  • Spindlefinger

    So the fines equal the selling price or does the selling price equal the fines?

  • NPI

    Well if Brokep is speaking the truth then there’s no reason to be concerned.

    From what I can gather he’s basically saying that the new owners will use their considerable add experience to turn a profit, allowing them to invest in the site. But that being possible seems largely dependent on TPB winning the “spectrial”, or loose solely because of the tracker.

    The only reason to doubt that it is the press release that suggested that copyright holders would get paid.
    I doubt the site is ever going to reach an add income large enough for the RIAA/MPAA etc. to be content.
    And if you can’t compensate the right holders fully there’s really no reason to try, you risk admitting that you’re assisting in copyright violations –which is suicide.
    Well that and how the deal doesn’t seem to depend on TPB winning or losing.

    I suppose I’ll have to wait for the transfer to go through in August before I make up my mind. That and this new third-party tracker that they claim to be setting up.

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  • Anonymous

    The Pirate Bay is dead, welcome to the new and improved The Sell Out Bay.

  • PassingBy

    Hundreds of bullshitters, no one so courageous to replace TPB by its own? That’s what I call flock of sheeps.

  • Pervis

    Well, I have had 24 hours to think about this and I still feel betrayed. Not by these guys giving up. Lord knows they must be tired of the fight. And not by their attempting to profit from their hard work by selling the site. Rather the fundamental betrayal is their disingenuous and transparently false claim that they are doing it for the benefit of the site and its users, to “take the site to a new level” with “new business models”.

    I suppose this lie was felt necessary to retain the current user base until the new owners can take over lest the deal fall through because GGF realizes they are buying a corpse. It is this abuse of the trust we have all placed in them which leaves me with nothing but contempt.

  • PUNNYTOTO

    this was a set up all along. it was never about the people. it was about proving how they could lead people like sheep so they could get seats for their friends in goverment

    the sad part is now they will sell you out and the media companies can sue you for millions of dollars.

    They do log ip addresses and personal info.

    People failed to see TPB guys were puppets leading more puppets.

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  • Emmanuel Goldstein

    If you really think they are going to put that money back into TPB or the community I have an island for sale in Europe that you can buy pretty cheap.

  • scurry

    Looks like it’s going to become legal

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8128551.stm

  • NPI

    @219
    Yes because creating a website and tracker with the same bandwidth and quality as TPB can be done overnight…
    Furthermore not all of TPB’s users are sure the sites as dead as you claim.

    I suppose I could have a webpage with sufficient bandwidth to replace TPB up in a week or so. But why would I invest in it when it’s hardly needed.

    Isohunt and other public sites does a great job and could easily absorb the userbase.
    Until someone is inspired to create something superior to the existing alternatives, there’s no point in making a new site, a TPB carbon copy isn’t going to take off.

    One of the keys to TPB’s success was the creators’ attitude, that’s not something easily replaced.

    @221
    FAIL; the pirate party is not in government it’s not even in the Swedish parliament.

  • Anonymous

    If there are 20 million users of Pirate Bay then why don’t they all contribute 50 cents to buy it and control it like a publicly held company. They can then register the company in Dubi or somewhere else the US and Sweden don’t have the jurisdiction to control the company?

    Make it legit, like it the God Father II.

  • GrX

    i think i’ve worked all this out ready guys put on your tinfoil hats

    ————————————

    All of a sudden this new company springs up from nowhere with a site that looks like it’s been put up within seconds hell even a more simple design than wordpress and thats saying something notice no contact email address only a phone number?

    IF the company is legit here is whats going to happen mark my words on this

    1. the Service they will allow you to download but only their content they’ve been paid to be allowed to share but the downloads will be DRM’d Thats right Digitial Restricted (we all been here before) so now your forced to adire to their licence this makes sense of his speech about letting content owners take back control of the content, yep DRM, the client to do the downloading is a closed source proprietary format which will also require DRM licencing restrictions now if you think you can download a movie and watch it with any media player you people are in for a massive shock it will be DRM locked to a proprietary play of their choosing.

    Now you all keep talking about Videobay this is where you people have your heads firm in the sand

    Peerlism the new p2p tech they are using is for STREAMING Videos’ check it out for yourself

    dont you see the piratebay guys are not doing videobay this global company is,

    doesn’t it all fit think about it licenced content taking back control allowing to transfer files

    A company called wurldmedia did this exact same thing 2 years ago remember them? paid people to share files again that was the same type of business model that tanked due to the DRM.

    The new Piratebay is the videobay using peerlism which is designed for streaming content, their website explains about taking the stress of 90% of isp’s and low and behold so does this Global Gaming company.

    you watch the new Subscription channel open with this new DRM sharing scheme and DRM video streaming scheme

    You heard it here first guys.

  • lonelybrownwolf

    i for one don’t like this at all. I did not use tpb much or any torrent site much but tpb was a symbol. Not to mention that it was hella effective. I do have one question whatever happened to AXXO

  • Mike

    That Ship, the one I have loved above all else that sail, will sink like a Lead Turd in the Proverbial Punchbowl. This is the worst decision every made on behalf of the bay, and financial ruin is the destiny of ‘gameboy’ if he thinks this community will stay on board while he tries to bring “Mafia Religion” to the table. Run Rats Run! I’m deleting my account as soon as the mechanism is in place, and I’m shopping for a new home starting TODAY!

  • btmourner

    Sell of Pirate bay really hurts. These guys were the the leaders of resistance, resistance against the stupid copyright laws. It seemed that they can’t be brought down… but may be we all were wrong in thinking that.

    http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/WebWise/entry/pirate-bay-sold-for-7

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  • PassingBy

    @224:
    Cite: “One of the keys to TPB’s success was the creators’ attitude, that’s not something easily replaced.”

    You hit the nail on the head. That’s why I am surprised how many people are pouring scorn on TPB crew while no one of them is even thinking of finishing what supposedly TPB started. For me it looks like everyone blaming TPB thinks “freedom of … is dead” etc. and no one wants to try to take the baton. It’s like when someone breaks cage with poisonous spiders and everyone tells you “you mtfk bastrd, what have you done, now we are all dead” and no one is trying to kill the spiders.

  • anonymous

    3,721,505 registered users. Last updated 18:48:04.— now if that drops to say half a million over the next week or two. Wonder if this deal will still go thru?
    I deleted my account and torrents so I made what tiny statement I could. Anyone else think this might work? pass the word! JUMP!!!!!

  • Rainydays1981

    Tried downloading a program one from mininova (TPB only tracker) and one straight from TPB. Only one will download at a time and its 5Lbs down speed vs my usual 600+.

    Looks like caca hit the fan already. REMOVE TPB from trackers before starting download if possible!

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    REMOVE TPB trackers!! See Above!

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  • Jeroed

    I noticed on Wednesday, they changed the logo on the home page back to the original. I think they want to reduce their user base getting the message that it’s time to bail.

    My guess is that only about 10% of their users, realize not only what was announced, but the true implications of such. Not to mention what effect a mass exodus from the site might have.

    Anyone have any ideas on how to get the word out to millions of those registered users? (I deleted my account a few moments ago) Time to sail on, but would be nice to send them a message on a scale they would hear it.

  • Luk3

    The owners of TPB sold out. They’re trying to spin it as if they’re doing a good thing but not… They sold out not only us but bit torrent technology as well as the cause.

    I surely hope their appeals fail in court (Which I am sure they will) and that they lose all this sell out money to the MPAA.

  • shad0w

    TPB trackers are poisoned.

    What the fuck, people.

  • Trelew

    To be honest, I’m not surprised to see this pan out like this. The corporate suits with the unlimited resources, lobbyist in every government in the world, paying off judicial systems to see it their way, you can only get hammered by the corporate bastards of the world before you have to give up and go some place to lick your wounds. Just tells me that corporations hold the true power in the world not our elected governments.

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  • tonio09

    their site will be wothless within a year as it will be most likely shut down or just erodes. That foundation is a big bullcrap. So they are giving away the money but they don’t know to whom coz the ownership is decentralised, too. LOL I bet it ends up in their pocket. Also, I find it hard to believe that they haven’t made any money out of pirate bay so far…

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  • bambam

    i’m willing to give them a chance. however my optimism is about 1% on the issue so……………………

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    This goes out too the founders of the pirate bay who value there back pockets and social well being instead of freedom of speech thats why my founding fathers in america spoke out along time ago. But now they did the same thing that most politicians did to america. They fucking sold us out cause of money. Just like every other politician in this world they would sell their country for a few millions if it wasn’t for the people stopping them at some point. Like #3 said “Arrrhhh this pirate be setting sail for a new port matey”. I would advise everybody else to do the same aswell the pirate bay is dead.

  • anon

    Only 2000 have dropped out of Pirate Bay in last couple of days. Looks like nobody cares for right now.. I would have guessed more members expressing their dismay for the foreseeable future. Can anyone point to the Next Best Thing for now, I really want to move away from the Bay, BEFORE we hit the iceburg! Thanks!

  • Acidic

    TPB’s userbase Drop

    07.01.2009 = 3.722.967 registered users.

    07.02.2009 = 3.719.533 registered users.

    3434 accounts removed for one day
    143 accounts removed every hour

    Providers of the most valuable and the most questionable content will leave first. All those who seek their goods will follow them. We don’t know how many accounts are for inactive users.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sailing to international waters, for now
    Shit happens….

  • Anonymous

    do yourself a favor and get into private trackers from the best filesharing community on the net http://www.thepiratesociety.org

  • Me

    They are pulling the wool over your eyes people. If it aint broke dont fix it. These guys said the site would never go down and they lied. They just want a big one-time payout. Who can blame them really. It won’t be better it will go away.

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  • MS

    There is a Wonderful New Site!
    try midnight-scene.com
    it has all the latest torrents..
    and the speeds are really fast….and it has an amazy usebase, its more than a torrent site, its a community…
    its a private tracker….but registration is open for the time being!

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