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Well, as everyone has heard by now, The Pirate Bay was sold and the new owners will be making the site legitimate by paying copyright holders (whether the user has to pay remains to be seen, but they are out to make money =>). But, there's a wrinkle; the new owners want to pay you for sharing files. Sadly, they still want to make it a business, so find out where and how to delete your account before August.
Global Gaming Factory (GGF) paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, GGF's Hans Pandeya said that the only way to beat illegal file-sharing was to make something more attractive.
"We are going to set up a system where the file-sharer actually makes money," he said.
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On top of that, they're claiming to pay the people seeding the torrents? Either they're lying or they're going to pay like a fraction of a penny to each user, which isn't very attractive at all.
Plus, there's already tons of other torrent sites, so I doubt that anyone will stick around for the new owners, they'll just get screwed in the end. There's a good chance that rather than the users migrating to an already existing site, they'll create a new one altogether.
i'll just stick with FTP
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