The Pirate Bay will now be a pay site.

[Cry Havoc]

http://torrentfreak.com/new-pirate-bay-will-become-a-pay-site-090716/

I don't even feel like copy+pasting, it's so depressing. :depressed

[resistanze]

Damn, that business plan is an Epic Fail. They're better off just shutting it down, other will take their place eventually.

I never used that site anyways.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

didn't read it, but that's dumb of them. i didn't use them either. there are plenty of other free torrent trackers. oh well.......

[koriwhat]

fuckin' bs! now it's going to be a paysite and they don't think they're gonna get 10x the amount of copyright infringement that they had before? ha. fuck tpb! sell-outs!

[Cry Havoc]

fuckin' bs! now it's going to be a paysite and they don't think they're gonna get 10x the amount of copyright infringement that they had before? ha. fuck tpb! sell-outs!

Actually, TPB was bought by someone else. So they aren't sell-outs, because the founders are no longer involved in it's operation.

[BlackSwordsMan]

demoind >

[Sense]

fuck public torrent trackers.

[ElNono]

What really happened is that the site is being bought out by another company that will turn it into a pay site. They're paying $7.8 million to buy it.
So the only thing happening here is the original guys simply cashing out.

[iggypop123]

damn good thing i got a season of the wire before this happened

[mouse]

every door swings both ways..............

[Trainwreck2100]

lmao @ some idiots thinking that they can get people to pay for shit on a website that exists because people don't want to pay for shit

[sabar]

People don't pirate stuff because they want to pay for it :lol

What a horrible business strategy. Great news for other sites, they are going to see big surges in users. h33t and 1337x even have statements about taking in TPB's exiled users

[sabar]

Oh and I can't wait for people to provide their personal info to pay for a site that offers illegal copyrighted content. I'm sure NO one will be in the courts to get that info. :rolleyes

http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/07/pirate-bay-alternatives-12-bittorrent.html (http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/07/pirate-bay-alternatives-12-bittorrent.html)

Private sites suck

[resistanze]

lmao @ some idiots thinking that they can get people to pay for shit on a website that exists because people don't want to pay for shit

:lol

see Napster.

[Evan]

lmao @ some idiots thinking that they can get people to pay for shit on a website that exists because people don't want to pay for shit

hahahaha.....well said.

[Laker Lanny]

They will have to change their name.

[La Peace]

The Pirate Bay will now be a gay site

See what I did there.

[DynastyBuilder]

http://torrentfreak.com/openbittorrent-tracker-muscles-in-on-the-old-pirate-bay-090705/

^^^

:music

[ElNono]

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