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Pirate Bay Buyer Sued For Bankruptcy

Posted by Soulskill on from the thanks-for-playing dept.

pharazon writes "Global Gaming Factory (GGF), the prospective buyer of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been sued in the Stockholm District Court for bankruptcy due to an unpaid debt of up to 1.4 million SEK (Swedish Crowns, roughly 200k USD). The issuer is GGF's trading partner, Advatar Systems. GGF was recently de-listed from the Aktietorget.se equity market due to financial and reporting failures, but was able to re-list later. The Swedish Tax Office was also claiming large sums of unpaid taxes from the owners of GGF. The discussion in the Swedish media has been skeptical about the Pirate Bay deal due to financing issues."

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  1. Re:Pirate Bay is dead. by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, because 12 out of my last 12 torrents all being tracked by The Pirate Bay tracker really indicates that too.

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  2. Smell of desperation by matty619 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That whole deal stank of desperation from the getgo. The Napster sale earlier this decade should have been clue enough that you can't take a brand known for being A) Free, and B) illegal, and somehow turn a profit simply by using the name in a legitimate marketplace.

  3. Re:Pirate Bay is dead. by DemonBeaver · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dunno, most of the torrents found on various websites still use the TPB trackers, which is sometimes porblematic

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  4. The Deal Never Closed by xombo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They never completed the deal. TPB continues to be operated by the founders. This only affects the sale, which everyone was against anyway.

  5. Re:Pirate Bay is dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Naw - they sell inferior copies.

  6. Re:There's very few swedish crowns.. by skrolle2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are literal translations of the words yen, dollar, renminbi, ringgit, peso, and several other currencies, but you don't translate those, do you?

  7. Re:Pirate Bay is dead. by mtmra70 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except mininova filters/removes torrents now.

    http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/08/0512246

  8. Re:Pirate Bay is dead. by Goaway · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't worry, nobody is really expecting you to be honest.