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 | zed260
join:2007-09-30
Cleveland, TN | Re: Um,well TPB has a grip on a certain unique reality principle the tpb owners must be smoking something the day that happens ill jump off mount everest | |
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Silver and Black and blue in 2009
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-25
The WasteLAN
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1 edit | 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.... | |
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qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA | Unfortunately for the RIAA they've already LOST! The RIAA and MPAA may have won a few court cases, but they have already LOST the loyalty (and wallets) of their (former) customers. They can't win this one! | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: Unfortunately for the RIAA they've already LOST! said by qworster  :The RIAA and MPAA may have won a few court cases, but they have already LOST the loyalty (and wallets) of their (former) customers. They can't win this one! Not sure how someone downloading a movie or song without paying for it is a "customer".
from various sources for CUSTOMER
someone who pays for goods or services
a patron; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or plans to;
a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron. | |
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james
join:2001-02-26
antarctica
| Re: Unfortunately for the RIAA they've already LOST! said by BF69 :Not sure how someone downloading a movie or song without paying for it is a "customer". Protip: people who download movies or songs are far more likely to be hardcore fans. hardcore fans are far more likely to waste their money on stupid, overpriced, extended directors cut dvds of stupid movies etc. Pirates are the movie industries biggest profit makers and they're too stupid to realize it. The only time pirates don't buy is when the product is shit.
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said by Metatron2008 :But people who download thousands of movies and games.... Yes, they are as bad as any murderer | |
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JoeG4
join:2001-12-16
945941 | Re: Unfortunately for the RIAA they've already LOST! Just about the usual eh?! | |
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