 Logan 5Enjoying the CataclysmPremium,MVM
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1 edit | It was bound to happen....eventually. If anyone thought that TPB would stay the same after it's founders abandoned it to it's fate is at best naive and at worst....dumb.
With the *.AA's now wanting "their cut" from the sale, and the Pirate Bay former founders now backpedaling and saying that they actually have not been involved with the business since 2006, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened...
Can't wait to see the mass exodus from there once word of this spreads through the 'net..
They should rename the site SS Baytanic because now, with it becoming a "pay to play" site it's gonna sink faster then that famous ship did when it hit the iceberg.... |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | I would not call it backpedaling. After the first round (2006) the Pirate Bay guys transferred ownership out of their hands. The recent lawsuit was against the operators and not the owners. So unless they want to go back to court against the owners, they are just SOL. |
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So the real question here is will this kind of legit system work and the logical answer to that is no..
Music and movies were meant to be shared but as time has passed they now want all this system of control and charge outrageous prices and a lot of people will simply not pay it.
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 MrMoodyFree range slavePremium
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Smithfield, NC | reply to Logan 5
said by Logan 5:If anyone thought that TPB would stay the same after it's founders abandoned it to it's fate is at best naive and at worst....dumb. ... Can't wait to see the mass exodus from there once word of this spreads through the 'net.. They should rename the site SS Baytanic because now, with it becoming a "pay to play" site it's gonna sink faster then that famous ship did when it hit the iceberg.... Yep, they might as well just pull the plug because it will be the same effect.
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| If people just did not abuse the oppurtunity of sharing the files and making pirated copies, this would not have happened. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by Logan 5:If anyone thought that TPB would stay the same after it's founders abandoned it to it's fate is at best naive and at worst....dumb. As I've read elsewhere on the internet. TPB needed to die. Its better off dieing gracefully, than one day 30 millions TPB users logging on and seeing "504 Gateway Timeout" or "Network Timeout" because a SWAT team showed up at the datacenter again, or Port 80's CEO was threatened with jail time if he doesn't cut the link. |
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Logan 5Enjoying the CataclysmPremium,MVM
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Interesting reading on TPB's probable future:
»techdirt.com/articles/20090716/1···72.shtml |
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said by Logan 5:If anyone thought that TPB would stay the same after it's founders abandoned it to it's fate is at best naive and at worst....dumb. With the *.AA's now wanting "their cut" from the sale, did when it hit the iceberg.... Whats the dot in "*.AA" for? |
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Logan 5Enjoying the CataclysmPremium,MVM
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3 edits | said by Simple :
Whats the dot in "*.AA" for? Lol... The "." is part of a wildcard search term going back to the earliest days of MS-DOS and UNIX... *.* is also used in database programming languages as an argument in a string.
If you go to your Start Menu -> Search (If XP) or Start -> Search Box (if you use Vista or Win7) and type in the following: *.jpeg
then press Enter, you will get a search result finding every jpeg picture currently on your Hard Drive.
You can use it many different ways, from *.extension mame (to search for all files with a given file extension) to frodo*.* (to search for all files that start with frodo or whatever you've named them)..
In this case it's a generic 'slang' term use to lump all the industries together that are actively going after P2P users...
The Recording Industry Association of America = RIAA
The Motion Picture Association of America = MPAA
So *.AA's refers to both organizations....less to type.
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said by Logan 5:They should rename the site SS Baytanic because now, with it becoming a "pay to play" site it's gonna sink faster then that famous ship did when it hit the iceberg.... Napster 2.0 isn't that bad off.
similar topic: »www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/techn···chnology
Pirate Bay 2.0 will be Napster 2.0 + movies  |
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Let me see if I understand this. The guys that set up pirate bay tracked anything, legal or illegal and ensured (facilitated) access to that content, legal or illegal. Now those guys are hightailing it for the woods because some gang of interantional lawyers are kicking their asses and trying to hold them responsible for "facilitating access to that content, legal or illegal".
Now this is a thing which apparently everyone agrees that they did, by that I mean "facilitating access to copyrighted material in violation of copyright".
I guess the question is, why would anyone actually believe that these twits at Pirate Bay would do anything other than run like hell when the lawyers arrived? They know what they did, and they know that they broke laws. Therefore they run.
I suppose that will be completely lost on everyone but hell, I don't care one way or the other. |
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