I don’t know if it’s the last lawsuit The Pirate Bay has gone through but something has definitely changed their mind about the whole Pirate idea. Maybe it’s the $7.8 million that the Global Gaming Factory will pay for The Pirate Bay that did it. After the purchase you will probably have to pay for the content you are downloading but we don’t have all the details just yet.

Will the community behind The Pirate Bay vanish? Here’s what the Pirates say:

If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That’s the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to. And - you can now not only share files but shares with people. Everybody can indeed be the owner of The Pirate Bay now. That’s awesome and will take the heat of us.

We’ll be looking forward to see what the Global Gaming Factory is up to, especially since it’s working on a future P2P 2.0 file sharing technology!

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Now here is quite the unforunate story — Apparantly, a woman by the name of Jammie Thomas was found guilty back in 2007 for sharing 24 songs over Kazaa and was then ordered to pay $222,000.

Well, the woman was put on trial yet again this year at a Minnesota court and was again found guilty but this time ordered to pay an astounding $1,920,000 in damages. Thats a full $80,000 per song!

To stand unbiased on the situation, Mrs. Thomas was issued a cease-and-desist letter by the RIAA, which she refused to do. So remember boys and girls, crime never pays, even if it involves the non-violent act of downloading a couple songs.

Read (Gizmodo)

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