Pirate Bay Bought by Swedish Gaming Company

KefkaticFanatic · **Posted:** June 30th, 2009, 7:03 am

The Pirate Bay was bought by a company named Global Gaming Factory X for around $8 million. They're going to do a total change of everything, removing the tracker and using a third party service, no longer hosting files on their servers, and giving compensation to copyright holders. Whoa.

http://gizmodo.com/5304354/pirate-bay-b ... -respects-copyrights

Adbot · **Posted:** June 30th, 2009, 7:03 am

Al3X · **Posted:** June 30th, 2009, 8:07 am

So if they're paying copyright owners, they're going to pay for each download?

Lets see how long until they run out of money. #-o

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

There's a reason why they've now added the option to remove yourself as a user. I expect their following to drop off quite a bit, and other sites that are already out there will pick up the slack. Shame to see them go like this.

KefkaticFanatic · **Posted:** July 2nd, 2009, 7:27 am

Others will rise to replace it, just like how what.cd replaced oink.