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Pirate Bay Bought Out, Suddenly Respects Copyrights
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-06-30 15:55:36 269
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Source: Gizmodo
The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking down nearly $8 million for the privilege. Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously.
Global Gaming Factory X is, in their words, the "biggest network of internet cafés and gaming centers in the world," making this story even more bizarre than it appears. This is sort of like GameFrog buying Demonoid, or, I don't know, Laser Quest buying Empornium. Odd, is the point. For the supreme WTF aspect of this whole thing, here's their plan:
"We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site."
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