Forums | MacLife

But they're planning a new video sharing site!!!???

Guess they need money to stay out of jail, and maybe start something else with a different name

Weren't they going to buy an old oil platform and start their own country?

So they're going away, at long last.  These guys have got to be the most arrogant sons of bitches on the planet.  They get raided by the police one day, and they're back up the next (middle fingers fully extended).  They've just been blatantly ignoring legal threats for years.  They have a section on their website where all they do is post some of threats along with their hysterically cocky responses.  Even after loosing in court with millions in fines and jail time, they've still managed to keep the site running.  Truly amazing.

Mr. T wrote:

So they're going away, at long last.  These guys have got to be the most arrogant sons of bitches on the planet.  They get raided by the police one day, and they're back up the next (middle fingers fully extended).  They've just been blatantly ignoring legal threats for years.  They have a section on their website where all they do is post some of threats along with their hysterically cocky responses.  Even after loosing in court with millions in fines and jail time, they've still managed to keep the site running.  Truly amazing.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I'm just grateful that all the fighting over p2p has kept anyone from taking much notice of Usenet.
Usenet: Flying under the radar for going on 20 years now.

ukimalefu wrote:

But they're planning a new video sharing site!!!???

Guess they need money to stay out of jail, and maybe start something else with a different name

Weren't they going to buy an old oil platform and start their own country?

I haven't heard anything about a new site, just a 'new business model' for TPB. That's going legit. The site is sold.

RIP, Pirate Bay
Notes on an exit strategy
By Andrew Orlowski

Comment So The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else's stuff away for free - then find a bigger idiot to buy the company.

It's actually not so different from the potted history of every media company that rises to popularity on the back of a new medium - take radio, for example - then sells out at the top of the market. Only in the case of Web 2.0, companies go from "pre-revenue" to "post-revenue" without any revenue in between. That's where you need a bigger idiot.
..

Pirate Bay offered nothing to potential buyers except the domain name, apart from a beta streaming-server, one of hundreds. It developed no new technology, or any new way of enjoying media. The internet cafe company which acquired it obviously thinks so too, which is why it announced a separate acquisition of some P2P technology developed in academia to provide the secret sauce necessary to attract investors and rights holder.

So instead, Pirate Bay turned to ideology, and tried to conjure up a political movement. At a time when politicians have given up the vision thing, and treat the public with contempt, it was seeking fertile ground.

But Pirate Bay's decision to use ideology as a fig-leaf to cover up its lack of real innovation leaves its new owners with very little to work with. The politics counts against it, as soon as the freebies disappear. As I write, the Torrents are being purged from Pirate Bay. There's no reason to stick around.

As we reported earlier today, the group's spokesperson Peter Sunde is grumpy at what he calls ungrateful freeloaders - the irony! - but that's too bad. The team have nobody to blame but themselves.

What if they used the millions to buy that island or oil platform

barrfid_od wrote:

What if they used the millions to buy that island or oil platform

Then we'd have to organize a military strike operation to take it their "country".

barrfid_od wrote:

sturner wrote:

barrfid_od wrote:

What if they used the millions to buy that island or oil platform

Then we'd have to organize a military strike operation to take it their "country".

They're terrorists

The mainest PB background sugardaddy is reportedly a major skinhead/neo-Nazi. That might be enuff for Merkel to hire sturner. He needs the work.

And think of all the pirated [i]Tunes ending up there... will no one think of Steve's kids?

Which is why we need to mount a first strike option against their "country".

It could be profitable.

::decosmolines hvy wpns::

Pariah wrote:

Usenet: Flying under the radar for going on 20 years now.

Haha, good ol' Usenet.

Usenet:  Too geeky for the common person to use.

Who was it who said "It's better to be a pirate than join the navy."? 

adndgamer wrote:

Pariah wrote:

Usenet: Flying under the radar for going on 20 years now.

Haha, good ol' Usenet.

Usenet:  Too geeky for the common person to use.

The days of Usenet (via Gopher), newsgroups, IRC, Pine, Eudora, and Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold. Mid-90s goodness...