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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."
So, the business model is to take away the things that people are probably most interested in, and start charging for whatever is left?
I can't wait for the IPO!
-Peter
From the looks of their plan, nobody-going-there-anymore is about right.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Will it keep the name "The Pirate Bay"? That name implies piracy.
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The pirate bay will soon be very legal. . . and very dead.
Facts have a liberal bias.
So anyone know what the new pirate bay will be? I'm not exactly up to date on what trackers are currently the best.
That's like buying a whore house and getting rid of all the whores.
The copyright holders are now getting fines of about $100000 per illegal download, if I remember correctly. So if the Pirate Bay will pay this as compensation every time it slips up, it's going to have to be a rather expensive pay site, isn't it?
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.
The IP cartels' opposition to piracy isn't just about the piracy itself; they are scared to death of the creation of a decentralized alternative to their existing systems for finding and exploiting artistic talent. The only reason they would embrace *any* method of distribution they don't have total control over is absolute desperation.
It's not about monetizing piracy. If they can't sell you a new version every couple years, control release dates, price a product differently in different regions, censor products for certain markets, or control how the product is presented then your distribution channel is a *threat* to them and they are going to try and take it down. If a kid can record a hit album with two grand worth of hardware and software - and, even worse, distribute it with two hundred bucks worth of hardware, how can they make their millions?
It's not about money. It's about them retaining the control they need to foist their ideal business model on the rest of the world.
They are not trying, the guys that owned TPB are goign to take their cash and run giggling all the way while the company that bought it will stand there looking at a fresh turd in a paper bag and ask... Wait, this is not what we though it was....
Kudos to TPB leaders, they got a sucker to buy their golden gate bridge.
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You know what is going to happen? We are going to get sites that do nothing but list DHT hash URI's (or maybe just the hashes) instead of torrent files. I wonder how the powers that be will take that?
Just add "filetype:torrent" to the end of your search, eg.
watchmen filetype:torrent
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The biggest irony of all is that by getting wildly rich the guys from TPB make it more attractive for other people to set up torrent sites. The RIAA is just cutting a single head off a huge hydra.
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The Pirate Bay already *was* legal. What they did now, is openly state that they themselves think it's not legal. Which would probably be the biggest failure they could possibly do.
If it weren't for their plan to try, what a bazillion of other sites tried in this exact form, where they all failed horribly without exception, and where there still are retards trying it again and again. Are they drunk? Did they learn nothing? Did they never read the news? Or is it like flies flying into an bug zapper?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Who is going to pay the people who take the time and effort to encode (pirate, if you must use the term) the stuff? Yeah, it's not their original content, but certainly the *value* in the stuff you get from TPB is the format, and that stuff doesn't just magically happen, you know. I mean, if I wanted a permanent copy for myself, I could rent and rip myself. But I have better things to do with my time. And for stuff I only intend to watch once, well, TPB is a better option than blockbuster or netflix.
1. Create a moderately funny home video. Heck, create crappy home video.
2. Upload to PirateBay
3. Instruct your 1000+ machine BitTorrent botnet to download it 24/7
4. Ask GGF to pay royalties for downloads.
5. Profit!
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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.
" I am also downloading Star Wars in HD. Bought the movies in VHS years ago, so certainly not going to pay full price for it again. "
If you don't want to pay for it in a better format than the format you purchased it in, than jsut enjoy it in its VHS format.
Just because you've purchased a copy of it (what 10+ years ago?), does not make you any less of a "pirate" than someone who has never purchased a copy. It certainly does not make your downloading of the content any more "justified".
You've shown in your post that their is a desire to obtain the content, but you are to cheap to be willing to pay for it.
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If something is out of print, or censored, or otherwise unavailable, but copyrighted, I have no legal recourse to obtain a copy.
Why would you have a legal recourse? No one is obligated to sell you a product, let alone sell you one in the form you desire.
If nobody can sell me a copy because nobody knows who owns the right to sell me a copy, how does this situation "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"?
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A new format does not a new copyrighted work make.
That word would be cowed. As in ordinary people just trying to make a living are cowed by threats and intimidation and overt buying of judges and juries by the corporations who actually controll the governments of the world and always have.
Essentially the new TPB is now paying protection money to IP owners whether the infringement is illegal or completely legal such as "Fair Use."
Anyone who goes up against a large corporation which has a huge well paid legal department and expects justice from the courts is a fool.
Sure there may be small victories here and there but "small" is the operative word. This is why the courts had to create the Class Action suit so that the people who know they're getting sodomized could feel like there was some way they could obtain justice.
It's the same reason that democracies let the people vote. The people still get sodomized but they feel good when they vote out the current sodomizer until they get sodomized by the next.
BOHICA!
Edwin