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Pirate Bay Buyer Sued For Bankruptcy
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."
Your local retailer?
Yep, because 12 out of my last 12 torrents all being tracked by The Pirate Bay tracker really indicates that too.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Mininova is a really good choice and is pretty popular. Torrentz.com is a good index of torrents from other sites, though it's not clear why torrents are sometimes missing.
Property is theft.
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.
1.4 million Swedish kronor = 138 545.887 Euros
Dunno, most of the torrents found on various websites still use the TPB trackers, which is sometimes porblematic
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They never completed the deal. TPB continues to be operated by the founders. This only affects the sale, which everyone was against anyway.
T' me,
Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho,
It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day!
That time in September when sea dogs remember
That grown-ups still know how ta play!
When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy
And a soft-wear patch covers your eye,
Ta hell with our jobs, for one day we're all swabs
And buccaneers all till we die!
So hoist up the mainsils and shut down your brain cells,
They only would get in the way,
Avast there, me hearty, we're havin' a party,
It's "Talk... Like... A Pirate" Day!
Better still, there's btjunkie.org.
"Crowns" is literally what kronor means. It's a perfectly OK translation.
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
There are literal translations of the words yen, dollar, renminbi, ringgit, peso, and several other currencies, but you don't translate those, do you?
Yes, and I bought a coffee lattè yesterday at Coffee By George at Gullmarsplan Station here in Stockholm, and the girl said, "That's 37 crowns, please". Just like virtually every other Swedish person I've met in 2+ years here says when speaking English (which virtually all Swedes do). So please come over here and tell them that they've all got it wrong.
Tack för att du spelar!
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Except mininova filters/removes torrents now.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/08/0512246
Don't worry, nobody is really expecting you to be honest.