wired.com - 7/2/2009
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The Swedish gaming executive who’s gambling nearly $8 million buying The Pirate Bay is convinced he can turn the 20 million users of the world’s most notorious file sharing site into well-behaved consumers — even amid a deluge of account-deletion requests.
“Some file-sharers ...
arstechnica.com - 6/25/2009
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arstechnica.com —
A Swedish court ruled today that the judge
overseeing The Pirate Bay trial earlier this year was...
not biased by belonging to various pro-copyright organizations. The unanimous decision (Swedish) means that there will be no retrial; the ...
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Pirate Bay retrial denied; judge declared "unbiased"
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The Pirate Bay to pay filesharers for seeding legal content
DV Hardware —
... Bay will be the first BitTorrent site to pay members cold hard cash for seeding the paid content they download a sweetener that Pandeya said will give the site an edge even over established pay-content outlets.
If you use iTunes, for instance, their users cant create any revenue, he said. We can create revenue for the file-sharing community
. At the end of the day, the file sharers will make money, or this is not going to work.
You can read more over here. The Pirate Bay to pay filesharers for seeding legal content ...
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The Tech Report: News —
... reports Nvidia aims for G210 and GT 220 launch TC Magazine reports Sapphire readies 2GB-equipped Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X NordicHardware reports Exceed releases USB-to-USB DirectLink flash disk TG Daily reports Archos takes an Atomic PC tablet Engadget: Sony Ericsson "Rachael" Android Xperia handset unveiled C|Net: iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing Obama using NSA, AT&T for new snooping project Threat Level on Pirate Bay 2.0 : Pay pirates to become consumers Digital Trends on testing Clear's WiMax ...
Weekend tech reading: Windows 7 to RTM July 13?
TechSpot —
... Pirate Bay 2.0 looked at in-depth The recent move by Global Gaming Factory has everyone wondering where the dust will settle. Although paying pirates to becoming consumers sounds great on paper, the model in its entirety seems overly ambitious and doomed to catastrophic failure. Wired
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