The Pirate Bay: Sellouts
 

As you may have heard, TPB has sold to "Global Gaming Factory X" for approximately $7.7mil USD.

They claim to have an idea in mind, involving turning pirate bay into a legit file sharing site. Will this work? No. All I'm seeing is another Napster scenario.

This article will explain it in more detail.

Let the decentralization commence! :mischief:

Oh, and what do you guys think about it all?

this is not good :(

anyone knows anything about this "Global Gaming Factory X AB"?

Was Pirate Bay such a special source really? I always thought it had a lack of seeds compared to other torrents search engines.

I'd give them a bit more credit than the Napster guys. Wait and see I guess.

you apparently miss the point

it's not about being the tracker with most nazi seeding rules and the highest speed.

it's about the amount of community. tpb was (is?) a pillar for the file sharing community, it is the most widely known tracker and if tpb wanted us to know something the news distributed along the world with a speed of light. they were the guys who stood up for our rights and always spit into MAFIAA's face. the guys helping to organize and morally support the battle against corporate fat entertaining industry lobbists

they were the daddy of the fight for the file sharing rights

So it was the HOTU of torrent sites? Not the best speeds but a good community and a pioneer?

i guess you could call it "hotu" of file sharing and internet freedom

(although i totally and utterly don't agree that hotu is base of abandonware)

I use to download from TPB, but now i don't the Government has hacked TPB and put some sort of anti-P2P spyware on there, just to fine people! I usually downloaded some really old games not on store shelfs or the nets!

Good riddance.

bull-fucking-shit

read the comments, download from trusted users, use peerguardian, you're safe

First AB then this. The Swedes are taking over the world? :hairpull:

Did your parents tell you that? lol

Nah, i found out on Pirate Newsfeed, i seen something about on the news, about a women, downloading 5 songs, and sharing them with her friends, she got fined like 5Mill!

That has nothing to do with them putting spyware on TPB.

one word: peerguardian

+that wasn't torrents actually but limewire or something

:sucks:
Government monitoring doesn't have anything to do with it.
When computers exchange data over the network, there is always some kind of trace left in the logs somewhere.
It just takes a bit of investigation and effort to connect the dots.

:flame: I GOT IT! BUT WHEN I START IT UP, THE PC RESTARTS!!!! :flame::flame::flame::flame::flame: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
:flame::flame::flame::flame::flame: FUCKING GOVERNMENT HAS HACKED MY FRIGGING MACHINE!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

HELL NO:flame::flame::flame: WHO THE HELL WANTS A LEGIT FRIGGING FILE SHARING SITE, NOW HOW AM I MENT TO OBTAIN GAMES THAT ARNT AVAILIBLE HERE OR WHOSE DEVELOPER HAS SCREWED ME OVER THIS IS FUCKING BS

Cut out the constant swearing both you, you know the forum rules.

I'd say that the problem has to do either with your operating system or your filesharing program itself. Just uninstall the thing and reinstall it from scratch. Helped me a few times with other P2P programs that started repeatedly crashing.

LOL at government hacking your computer. Go put on your Tinfoil hat and just think of a brick wall. That way they can't get into your brain as well.

Flipping moron.

One word... China, i believe there, no internet connected PC is safe there, Government always watching! Lol Green Dam! :ouch:

You make no sense.

^ But everything makes sense in the end, to say one that makes no sense will make sense later, but if you are to continue not thinking that it makes sense then you might not be sane!

Wrong, you just come off like a spamming twat.

^ Then you shouldn't have replied to my replies :mad:

Anyway Pirate Bay, its a good site, it has some torrents that IS0hunt doesn't! But lack of seeders! :ouch:

Wow, I forgot I posted this topic!

After a lot of thinking I realised that maybe it won't be such a bad thing.

Listen to this interview. It answered a few of my questions.

The new owners mess up, the users go to anther site. Simple as that.

And to the comments about the HOTU - That situation is worse than TPB! :(

I blame the Encomy, its just so shitty at the moment, i mean everyone, will have a crap feel on cash at the mo, its running out due to this encomy crisis!!!!

Whutchutalkin'bout Kugerfang?!?! :laugh:

haha wow

that tpb dude looks weird, like, fairy weird

Yohohoho! We the pirate bay are pirating yer favorite pirated Software and ol' bit of Rum! Yarhyarhyarh!

Off to Mininova for me then. I never felt I was part of a community on TBP; I would just read the comments to make sure what I was downloading wasn't packed with viruses.

Obviously no-one's heard of Torrentz, then? :p

Torrentz is not a tracker, it's just a search index. And a bad one at that.

How about Demonoid?

There are loads of sites!

Even one started by someone I only just happened to meet on the Demonoid IRC!

http://www.madhous3.co.uk/

You just have to dig a little deeper sometimes.

There are also sites which advertise trackers and stuff, but you can probably find them on your own.

Why are you pirating pirated software?

you guys who tell "but there are other trackers too" miss the whole point, it makes me sad