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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. Oh well by Squiffy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, that's the end of that.

    1. Re:Oh well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news, The Pirate Bay settled with the RIAA/MPAA today.

      In the agreement, TPB will pay RIAA/MPAA a licensing fee for every song they sell. RIAA/MPAA lawyers hailed the deal as ground breaking.

      TPB managed to keep a straight face long enough to get out of the room before laughing themselves silly at the RIAA/MPAA stupidity!

    2. Re:Oh well by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

      you believe this?

      Why not, in order to be an april fools joke, humor would have to be involved, therefore I can only conclude that this is seriousness.

    3. 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 /.

    4. Re:Oh well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your mom's a big fan of quantity over quality as well.

    5. Re:Oh well by Cap'nPedro · · Score: 5, Funny

      I miss the ponies!

    6. 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?

    7. 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)

    8. Re:Oh well by notsaenej · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ah, nostalgia isn't what is used to be huh?

    9. Re:Oh well by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Funny

      Huh? Are you sayign it's a joke? I just went to http://thepiratebay.org/ and it's confirmed there...I don't think an april fooler could hack into their site and change it.

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  2. Seriously, guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stop it. Please. April Fools is pants.

    1. Re:Seriously, guys... by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Informative
      "Stop it. Please. April Fools is pants."

      Gotta ask...what the hell does that mean? Something is 'pants'?? Never heard that one before.

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    2. Re:Seriously, guys... by VJ42 · · Score: 5, Informative

      "Stop it. Please. April Fools is pants."

      Gotta ask...what the hell does that mean? Something is 'pants'?? Never heard that one before.

      It's a colloquialism in British English that's used as a rough synonym for bollocks\crap\rubbish\arse.

      Pants in British English are underwear instead of trousers, hence the negative connotations.

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    3. Re:Seriously, guys... by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Funny
      "I believe it stems from British English. They call pants trousers, and underwear pants. I also believe that pants is used as a somewhat general derogatory there."

      Ah..that explains it.

      Even if I knew British English....I'd not get it, since I go 'commando'.

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  3. It's about time by notarockstar1979 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honestly this is the whole reason for the lawsuits. It was to devalue TPB so that WB or one of the other big media groups could purchase them on the cheap. I can't believe no one saw this coming.

  4. Re:In an unrelated news, by perryizgr8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In an unrelated news, Stallman has just announced that he's joining Microsoft.

    in related news, windows 7 goes open source.

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