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Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court
After the news broke that The Pirate Bay owners would sell the site to Global Gaming Factory, an independent tracker OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was launched. Due to its public nature, OBT was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker. Even though the sale never went through, OpenBitTorrent has proved its worth recently, since the Pirate Bay tracker had been struggling to stay online.
Continue reading »Pandeya, Sunde, in new The Pirate Bay bid
Endless hype faithfully regurgitated by online media notwithstanding, a deal launched by Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory boss Hans Pandeya to buy The Pirate Bay never came close to succeeding. But apparently, Pandeya is a firm believer in the maximum there’s more than one way to skin a cat, a view shared by ex-TPB spokesman Peter Sunde. “A new attempt to sell the popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay is underway, as the site’s owners are reportedly discussing bids with four potential buyers,” says The Local , going on »»» According to the Swedish business newspaper Dagens Industri (DI), Pirate Bay’s ownership foundation, with site founder Peter Sunde playing a leading role, has invited four parties to present bids to purchase the site.
Continue reading »Anti-Pirates Try to Nail The Pirate Bay with Faked Evidence
In an attempt to take The Pirate Bay offline, BREIN took three of the tracker’s ‘founders’ to court. BREIN won the case and Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were ordered to block Dutch users within 10 days or face thousands of euros each day in penalties. After the verdict was made public, the three defendants immediately announced they would appeal.
Continue reading »Is on-again-off-again Pirate Bay deal off? Again?
It’s taking a while — a looooong while — to get confirmation of The Pirate Bay non-sale. Almost since Day One p2pnet has been reporting the supposed acquisition of TPB by Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory (GGF) wasn’t going to happen. However, it continued to be cited ad nauseam elsewhere as a virtual done deal with GGF boss Hans Pandeya’s proclamations that all was well quoted over and above the many signs that, in fact, it had begun to crumble almost from the moment P2P entrepreneur Wayne Rosso walked away from it.
Continue reading »Start-up problems
Hi all: I’m having a bit of difficulty getting rolling, today. Out-of-the-blue hardware problems. Proper sites have people to take care f these things.
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