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Fresh Pirate Bay Purchase Attempt By Four Potential Buyers

Earlier this year, the shareholders of Global Gaming Factory agreed to acquire the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker. All the company had to do was come up with $7.8m (SEK 60 million), half of which to be paid in shares. As anonymous investors pulled out and promises from the shareholders that they would come up with the funds themselves came to nothing, the deadline for the sale passed and the site stayed in the hands of Reservella, the Seychelles-based holding company that acquired The Pirate Bay two years ago.

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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Gates, Viacom, AT&T tell kids ‘Get Schooled’

Kids & Kartels:- While Barack Obama was giving US school kids a pep talk , Microsoft zillionaire Bill Gates was also telling kids to pay attention to their education. But he wasn’t following Obama’s example. Instead, he went for an ‘education’ conference at the [wait for it] Paramount Pictures lot.

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Barack Obama talks to US kids

Kids & Kartels:- ||  Politics:- US president Barack Obama’s speech to American children is currently the most-searched video on YouTube, says Khabrein . He’s accused of using it to brainwash American kids. But the huge fuss notwithstanding, from many, if not most, accounts, he wasn’t doing that at all — at least, not in the corporate or political sense.

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

GGF Shareholders Push Through Pirate Bay Acquisition

The ownership of the site will be transferred inside a month, and within that period GGF will have to pay 60 million kroner ($7.8m) to the Pirate Bay’s current owners – Reservella. Today, GGF shared its plans with the shareholders, who all decided in favor of the deal. After several investors decided to pull out , GGF’s shareholders – including the CEO who holds more than half of the shares – will finance the acquisition themselves.

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009 P2P News No Comments