YARRRR!!! This ship be sinkin'!

In a rather strange (and somewhat unbelievable) move, Global Gaming Factory X has acquired “the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker”, The Pirate Bay. Global Gaming Factory X is the self-admitted “biggest network of internet cafés and gaming centers in the world,” so, yeah… It makes perfect sense that they would want to buy one of the most notorious file sharing sites on the internet [/sarcasm]. And, even stranger still, they want to “introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site.” Pay content providers? Ridiculous!

Over the past couple of years, The Pirate Bay has been a focal point for this whole “illegal” downloading over the internets that everybody’s been doing. The administrators of the site recently went to trial for copyright infringement, were found guilty, and each sentenced to a year in prison. This move could be some act of desperation by the operators of The Pirate Bay. It sure sounded like it when they broke the news on their blog.

Yes, it’s true.

News reached the press today in Sweden – The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB.

A lot of people are worried. We’re not and you shouldn’t be either!

TPB is being sold for a great bit underneath it’s value if the money would be the interesting part. It’s not. The interesting thing is that the right people with the right attitude and possibilities keep running the site.
As all of you know, there’s not been much news on the site for the past two-three years. It’s the same site essentially. On the internets, stuff dies if it doesn’t evolve. We don’t want that to happen.

We’ve been working on this project for many years. It’s time to invite more people into the project, in a way that is secure and safe for everybody. We need that, or the site will die. And letting TPB die is the last thing that is allowed to happen!

If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That’s the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to. And – you can now not only share files but shares with people. Everybody can indeed be the owner of The Pirate Bay now. That’s awesome and will take the heat of us.

The old crew is still around in different ways. We will also not stop being active in the politics of the internets – quite the opposite. Now we’re fueling up for going into the next gear. TPB will have economical muscles to let people evolve it. It will team up with great technicians to evolve the protocols. And we, the people interested in more than just technology, will have the time to focus on that. It’s win-win-win.

The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets. I hope everybody will help out in that and realize that this is the best option for all. Don’t worry – be happy!

This deal with the Devil is set to close in August. What will come of it? I’ve absolutely no idea. In fact, I’m not convinced this is actually true. My bet’s that it’s all just one, big practical joke.

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