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How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized
Death Metal sends along this excerpt from Torrentfreak about how Global Gaming Factory, the company who is buying The Pirate Bay, plans to change the site in order to avoid the wrath of the entertainment industry:
"In a letter addressed to [shareholders], the company confirms that the new Pirate Bay will become a pay site, while revealing some additional details on how GGF plans to legalize it. To please the entertainment industry, GGF will install a system that will allow the copyright holders to either authorize the 'illegal' torrent or have it removed from the site. If the copyright holder chooses the first option, they will be compensated every time the file is downloaded. In addition, the board says that it will pay penalties if it has to. 'The holder will be able to leave the file and obtain compensation or ask for removal of the file. GGF will also pay any penalties that may arise,' the GGF board announced."
This is modelled after the "Start paying your $699 licensing Fee you cock-smoking teabaggers" business plan.
Trolling is a art,
They're thinking about renaming it "The Ninja Bay"
Do you D?
That's stupid. There's already a Ninja Bay. (And don't say you haven't ever heard of it, it's the NINJA bay, that's the point.) There server is at the center of the Earth.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
That's a ridiculous analogy.
It's much more like when you've gatecrashed a party full of drunken horny half naked cheerleaders, when suddenly all the hot ones disappear, and the fugly ones turn into whores.
Seriously, if we can't get whore-based analogies right, then we're no better than animals, or Belgians.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
"The Kamikaze Bay" seems more appropriate
DRAT!
Foiled by anonymity again....
But beware, you have violated the code of usenet, several rules of which are "never mention usenet," as well as promoting an indexing website that allows the uninitiated access to some of our secrets....and should the guild find you, well.....I don't think I have to tell YOU what will happen.
I'm sorry, as much as whore analogies are fun, I can't understand what you're saying when there are no cars involved.
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