Bye Bye Pirate Bay

[Hiro]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/30/pirate-bay-acquired-by-global-gaming-factory-going-legit-like-n/

Coolio

[spoiler]Not really  [/spoiler]

[the shortest route to the sea]

At first I wanted to say "It'll be ok, it's only a hand-switch, the product is the same..."

And then the blog post on tpb just killed all of my hope. Fucking corporate bullshit...

[Oh]

 Well half their files had trojans so I don't care since I started using rapidshare. 

[Daddy]

Reddit post:

To clarify a bit..
TPB has been owned by a company for the last years since the raid so nothing there will really change except the names of the owners. The talk about TPB are going to be a pay site is wrong, the CEO that said that does not know what he is talking about.
Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents. This setup will be practically impossible to take down or find anyone liable to sue.
The 3d party company services will have APIs, so you can on your blog or whatever have your own small torrent listings just as you now pull in twitter feeds. remember how the twitter design totally havoced the iranian attempts to block it as ppl just used another side that pulled in the feeds and read it there instead? well that goes for torrents and TPB to.
All in all, this is not the end of the world as some are seeing it but a rather interesting technical improvement.
And dont worry, not a dime will go to the media industries spectrial prize money what i know of but a really nice fund for doing cool stuff.
/krs - co.founder of TPB and PB, not involved in TPB anymore and have no stake in any cash.

Well half their files had trojans so I don't care since I started using rapidshare. 

I don't get how you can be stupid enough to get a trojan. It lets you see what's in each torrent before downloading it.

Your client does too. If you're downloading an album, a .bat file isn't going to be a song.

If you're pirating a program, just scan it.

[Oh]

Reddit post:I don't get how you can be stupid enough to get a trojan. It lets you see what's in each torrent before downloading it.

Your client does too. If you're downloading an album, a .bat file isn't going to be a song.

If you're pirating a program, just scan it.

I do, but some of the keygens themselves are trojans, and besides I'm not paying for my rapidshare account and it's faster. 

[rdl]

There are much better, freer sites than TPB anyway.

[snorkel]

Fine with me. I've kind of always hated TPB -- although I've never encountered a well-designed BitTorrent site for its own tracker, TPB is a marvelous example of design failure, and its search is also fucking annoying and hard to find things with.

[Zach]

FUCK

[C.Mongler]

I do, but some of the keygens themselves are trojans, and besides I'm not paying for my rapidshare account and it's faster. 

Not when you have to wait 2 hours between downloads lol

[Oh]

Not when you have to wait 2 hours between downloads lol

Paid account lol