The pirate bay turned into absolute crap that’s next to useless long ago..

Few things you can find on it are monitored to all hell, and is also full of countless trojans and keyloggers among many others..

What, just because you can add it as a tracker and all that basic crap?

It’s not only the brand they are paying for. They are paying for the users (Although most will most likely disapear) There are still millions of people visiting TPB.

they better admit it.. TPB is commercial lol!

Exactly how is Reservella a ‘holding company’ for TPB?

According to http://www.seychellesoffshore.com … “An offshore holding company can be used to hold the shares of subsidiaries located in high tax countries.”

Was or is TPB a registered company in Sweden? It does not currently appear in any search of the official companies registry … https://snr4.bolagsverket.se/snrgate/startIn.do

If it is not, how could its shares be ‘held’ by an offshore company? If it is, under what name can it presently be found and how and when was the transfer of shares to Reservella effected?

If in fact in 2006 only ownership of the domain name was transferred to the shell company, will this hold up (under hostile legal scrutiny) as a genuine change of ownership for a (possibly unregistered) Swedish business for the purposes of civil/criminal/tax liability?

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Enigmax, when will you produce serious answers to this type of question, as opposed to just another mendacious sales pitch ghostwritten by Peter Sunde?

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PS: Perhaps Bergquist intends to pay for TPB with a mountain of worthless GGF shares, the same ones P.Sunde recommended TPB users sink their money into because ‘we think it is really funny, actually’?

Wake me up when it’s sold.

TF – I hope you will cover it.

Sure, he says this policy will be moderate etc, etc… But it’s a FIRST step in the WRONG direction.

BRITISH PEOPLE AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FEELS INSPIRED – PLEASE SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION AGAINST THIS ON:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/freefilesharing/

You need a UK address, but if you don’t *currently* have one, just google for one. It is not checked.

Of course, everyone will think the real owner is Reasonella. Hans will take care of all financial and technical matters. He’s good with that. Indeed, I predict big things…

I totally agree!
I will GLADLY give to the artist, but I’d rather do that then help out the industry.
Once I get a debit card- ima start just donating to the bands directly, but till then its all band shirts and concerts for me-
Hahaha

wtf?

Wherever the ship sails I wish the best for its crew. As long as they keep the original values =)

If you knew it, you would be probably trying to buy it.
People how make money are the ones that can see the oportunity where others only see lost of time and/or money. Thats why we have much less rich men than average ones. :)

They would just insutiable and/or impossible. Not ignoring the fact that they wouldn’t be able to do a thing..

And a resource back up.. “Sell” all actions to someone wich isn’t in a country that doesn’t have copyright law… we would just win =)

Good on yer Mandy – Vote Labour
Lord Mandelson praised the UK’s creative industries, which are worth around £16bn and employs 2 million people.

But it has been eroded in recent years, he said, by new ways of accessing content.

“I was shocked to learn that only one in 20 music tracks in the UK is downloaded legally. We cannot sit back and do nothing,” said Lord Mandelson.

The fact that young people now expect to download content for free was “morally as well as economically unsustainable,” he added.
Impersonator @18 – that’s not me.
Fail.

Starring award winning actor Peter Sunde as Jack Swallows and Oscar nominee Hans Pandeya as Captain Barbosa

Coming soon to a Tube near you

(No pirates were harmed in the making of this movie)

tpb forever

share-
it’s faire

Jasper100

(and for the tyrants: indeed illegal stays illegal but doesn’t mean WRONG!)

Jess
http://www.anon-tools.mirroz.com

Fool TPB once, shame on you. Fool TPB twice, shame on them.

Ha Ha

If the contract is just about the sale of “thepiratebay.org” or “piratebay.org”, they can just move the website on another domain they own, and then google will do the rest, lol :)

Or somebody else can, and it’s already happened. The pirate bay clones are a reality already. Look at this:

http://www.btarena.net

I don’t understand how somebody could buy the domain name and expect to have great results, to cover millions of dollars of expenses, if they don’t have a big plan.

I personally don’t see (yet) any big plans possible that could persuade “pirates” to keep visiting the website, except to keep thepiratebay a tracker, and to monetize the traffic a little better than the piratebay’s crew is doing right now. They could earn more than they are right now. Probably right now they are not even making up for their expenses, or barely so.

The domain itself can have a lot of value if the site is kept like this.

If somebody change the website’s content too deeply, what will remain is the residual traffic of the domain name itself.

Owning a mispelling of the pirate bay domain name (mine is parked), and looking at the unique visits that I get and the worth of a click, I can safely say that the domain name itself won’t cover the expenses.

The only way for them to keep the money flow, is to keep the logic of the website: an “illegal” website (pirate bay), which is used by rebel “pirates”, to download music, movies, or whatever they want.

If this setup will be changed, the traffic will drop, and a domain name worth potential millions of dollars with no traffic isn’t a quite good investment.