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."

Comments

check riaaradar.com

[Dan667]

When you buy music, make sure to check http://riaaradar.com/ to see if the album is from a company that funds the RIAA. If they do, don't buy it and stick it to them a couple dollars of lost earnings at a time.

Try google.com

[Joce640k]

Just add "filetype:torrent" to the end of your search, eg.

watchmen filetype:torrent

Re:Sooo

[Crimson Wing]

So anyone know what the new pirate bay will be? I'm not exactly up to date on what trackers are currently the best.

Mininova, TorrentReactor, Torrents.to (formerly ISOhunt) for general torrent needs. For anime, check datorrents.com.

What about the subscription?

[williamfrantz]

Unfortunately, step 3 of the plan ignores the new subscription fee TBP will expect from all 1000+ of your BitTorrent bots. In the end you are just paying yourself or somehow stealing money from the owners of the bots.

Re:Sooo

[Shadow-isoHunt]

Torrents.to is *not* isoHunt.