arstechnica.com - 6/25/2009
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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 defendants must hope for a successful appeal ...
Pirate Bay Denied Retrial —
Digital Trends
Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström – the four men behind The Pirate Bay file-sharing site – had hoped they might face a retrial after it was revealed that the judge who oversaw their case was a member of two pro-copyright ...
Swedish court says Pirate Bay judge not biased —
TechSpot
A few days after being found guilty of assisting copyright infringement, sentenced to heavy fines and a year behind bars, the lawyer for one of The Pirate Bay's co-founders charged that judge Tomas Norstroem belonged to pro-copyright groups and was therefore biased against them. Allegations of a ...
Global Gaming Factory Acquires The Pirate Bay Website —
techPowerUp!
Swedish firm called the Global Gaming Factory announced today that it has bought The Pirate Bay webpage for just 60 million Swedish Krona (roughly $7.8 million USD or £4.6 million GBP). That't the breaking news for today. There's no need to describe The Pirate Bay, probably everyone here knows ...
The End of The Pirate Bay: A Victory Against Piracy? —
I4U News
The Pirate Bay is soon to be no more. We all knew this day would come eventually, and to anyone who knows anything about the Internet this shouldn't come as too huge of a surprise. Napster and Kazaa have both gone down this road as well. The fact that TPB ...
The Pirate Bay gets bough by Swedish software firm —
DV Hardware
A Swedish software company named Global Gaming Factory has acquired The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish Krona (roughly $7.8 million). Global Gaming Factory's PR statements hints the company wants to make the torrent site more legit by introducing paid download models:
The listed ...
The Pirate Bay: Sold to The Man? —
I4U News
Tortuga is burning. News has spread like wildfire all around the Internet that The Pirate Bay has been bought out by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF). This is huge news; the Bay is by far the largest file-sharing website on the Internet, with more than 90% o...
Firm buys The Pirate Bay, seeks to make it legal —
The Tech Report: News
In the wake of the Pirate Bay founders' controversial trial, a Swedish software firm has purchased the popular torrent site with the aim of turning it into a legit operation. No, really. There's even a press release and everything.
The buyer, Global Gaming Factory X, wants to "launch new...
The Pirate Bay scooped up by Swedish software company —
TechSpot
Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) announced that it is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay for about $7.8 million about half of which will be paid in cash. GGF owns a band of Internet cafes and gaming centers. The company hopes to see the deal close by August, after ...
Pirate Bay launches Video Bay "beta extreme" —
TechSpot
Making good on a two-year-old promise, the folks behind infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay briefly opened up their streaming video platform for public testing today. Dubbed Video Bay, the forthcoming service is billed as a rival to both YouTube and Hulu, where its users will be able to share ...
The Video Bay announced —
Neoseeker News Feed
Though facing jail and $3.8 million in fines, The Pirate Bay founders have decided to go ahead with their upcoming video service The Video Bay (TVB), which seems to hold the ambition of matching YouTube in content, and with no restrictions on copyright...
The Pirate Bay hatches new streaming video site (sort of) —
Ars Technica
Move over YouTube—the folks behind The Pirate Bay are working on their own video streaming site with no restrictions. The site will be called The Video Bay and it is now on the Web as a "Beta Extreme," though currently there is no functionality as everything is still under ...
RIP, Pirate Bay —
The Register
Notes on an exit strategy 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.… What is your recession sales strategy?
Pirate Bay scooped up by Swedish software firm —
The Register
Mulls biz model that compensates copyright owners Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) has agreed to buy BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay for $7.7m (60m Swedish Crowns), according to a statement on the company's website.… Case Study: ...