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Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-you-can't-beat-'em dept.

mlingojones writes "TorrentFreak breaks the news of The Pirate Bay's acquisition by Warner Bros: 'After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.'"

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  1. Re:Oh well by HardCase · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See, back in the day, /. used to come up with one really good original April Fool's joke. It was like they crafted it over the course of a month or two, then popped it on an unsuspecting crowd. It was elegant, it was funny and it suckered lots and lots of people.

    That evolved into the new philosophy of the past few years which is "if one really good joke was great, how about a bunch of really lame ones?" It's quantity over quality which, I guess, is what we want now.

    I miss the old /.

  2. Re:Oh well by Zerth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The downside is that since Warner bought the Pirate BAy.....there will no longer be any Warner Bros. titles offered there. Only stuff from the other guys..... /blockquote.

    This is a downside?

  3. Re:Oh well by damien_kane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That would actually be a pretty smart thing to do...

    Step 1: Agree to pay the RIAA/MPAA's "protection" fees (retroactively, of course)
    Step 2: Agree to the deal where WB takes control of your company (both assets and liabilities)
    Step 3: Profit?!!

    (As WB now has to pay out all of it's cash-on-hand to the RIAA/MPAA)