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Re: Um,well TPB has a grip on a certain unique reality principle
Anyone with a shred of intelligence will see this for what it is.....
Global Gaming Factory X doesn't want the Pirate Bay to continue as it was, they will get far more value from these 2 things once the sale is finalized:
1.) The Pirate Bay name and 'mystique' surrounding it...Being one of the top 100 most visited sites on the entire internet doesn't hurt when your agenda is to move the Pirate Bay to a more centralized business model that supposedly will compensate the artists and the labels while allowing the free access to continue....
We ALL know that the *.AA's will NEVER let that happen.
2.) The public tracker that TPB has is the largest in the world....Imagine what happens to the 90% or so of the other public torrent sites that use/depend on the public tracker(s) that TPB provides.....Instantly they would all be pretty useless if they dont have anything to share.... This leaves only about 10% of torrent traffic on private trackers which is a far more 'acceptable loss' for the *.AA's to endure for the foreseeable future until they can focus on wearing them down as well.
The original PB founders after being found guilty saw an opportunity to 'get out from under' all that debt by selling the assets of TPB to the 1st company that came along that said "Oh n0s, we'll keep TPB *exactly* the way it is now" and they were either naive and gullible enough to believe them, or they know what will ultimately happen and they just don't care..Either way they've gone back on their word to 'go down fighting' and sold out....no matter how positive they try to make this out to be
Either way, that site has enough info on it's members so that even if they are being truthful when saying "we have no logs of anything, no personal data will be transferred in the eventual sale (since no personal data is kept)" they can't guarantee it (or that the *.AA's won't one day gain access to it) short of completely destroying all backups and re-formatting their servers.....May not be log files, but there's enough there that could be used to identify people from the many other ways a website the size of TPB has of gathering information that by it's self means little but when combined, can be used by ISP's, the *.AA's or any government that asks for it.... Patriot Act or DMCA/ "National Security" notwithstanding.... |
