nsane.forums Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Earlier today The Pirate Bay announced that it would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) who are listed on the Swedish stock market. So, Pirate Bay users can not only share files but they can buy a share of the site as well. Perhaps even more significant for the BitTorrent community is the thus far unreported decision to close down the BitTorrent tracker. Up until today Pirate Bay’s public tracker connected more than half of all BitTorrent users but this is about to change. Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde has informed TorrentFreak that the site will soon decentralize and stop running a BitTorrent tracker of its own. Instead they will encourage their users to use a yet to be launched third party tracker for their torrents.To decentralize even further, the torrents that will be listed on the site wont be hosted on The Pirate Bay’s servers anymore. In the near future the site will use a new torrent hosting service that will store the torrents for them. This new hosting service will be open to other torrent sites as well and can be accessed through an API.In the end The Pirate Bay is making these changes to ensure that the BitTorrent ecosystem stays intact no matter what happens, Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak. By decentralizing the different aspects they hope that BitTorrent users will be less reliant on the uptime of The Pirate Bay’s servers alone. The burden will now be spread among several independently operated services.For now it remains a mystery what GGF CEO Hans Pandeya meant with “We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site.†That’s worrying to say the least.In addition, GGF also acquired Peerialism who apparently have developed a new P2P distribution technology which will be used on The Pirate Bay. How this related to the new tracker and external torrent hosting remains unknown. We’re trying to get confirmation and more details from GGF as soon as possible.Update: According to Johan Sellström, the CTO of Global Gaming Factory, the plans have changed after Peter Sunde talked to us. “We had discussed closing it down initially so I think thats why he said so. The plan is to use technology from Peerialism that makes bandwidth utilization more efficient and then it would not make sense to shut it dow,” he said, adding. “Peerialism will modify the tracker but it will be backwards compatible. But all this is subject to change if for some reason it would not work. It is our ambition to do so.”Post from: TorrentFreak View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 OH NOES~! :P Meh, itz bad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 bleh...:P is this ****...they can't closeand what's this about content uploaders and copyright holder getting paid with each dl...seriously :wtf:it's like rs all over againthe internet was supposed to be FREE, yet some pricks keep thinking of a way to make $ out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahamot Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Sad day for all Internet user around the world. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I knew this would come about...Alex Jones has been saying this kind of thing would happen to anything that gets too big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumant30 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 TPB is gone for sure because they are selling to same company who will then either sell all the user base to RIAA or put it to some sh*tty use i just can't believe it this really sad day for all pirates the mother ship of all piracy has just been sink by those bastards i hope the RIAA & MPAA are uncorking the champagne .But i am more disappointed in the 3 owners who i know now just said words like TPB can continue operations without us and all garbage.What a slap on millions of users who trusted them nice going u asshole Sunde,brokep and 3rd one i don't know but fuck you any way.(Pardon my language i am really pissed of right now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 sumant30, and everyone else 'pissed at the owners':They have provided a great service for many years, for free, they now have to pay for it by going to jail and paying enormous fines. It would be unfair if at the moment they stop providing this great service we would keep them responsible. After all it is not them who caused this, it's lack of success of a system called democracy and law, the concept itself for both is great, but they have been heavily 'abused'(read 'not used they way it was meant to be').If anything we owe them, not the other way around.I am afraid of the consequences though, I'll be requesting that all my torrents get removed as well as my account.Edit: For anyone interested there's an 'Remove account' button in your Settings page now, wonder why :unsure: Anyway I took advantage of the opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumant30 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 sumant30, and everyone else 'pissed at the owners':They have provided a great service for many years, for free, they now have to pay for it by going to jail and paying enormous fines. It would be unfair if at the moment they stop providing this great service we would keep them responsible. After all it is not them who caused this, it's lack of success of a system called democracy and law, the concept itself for both is great, but they have been heavily 'abused'(read 'not used they way it was meant to be').If anything we owe them, not the other way around.I am afraid of the consequences though, I'll be requesting that all my torrents get removed as well as my account.Edit: For anyone interested there's an 'Remove account' button in your Settings page now, wonder why :P Anyway I took advantage of the opportunity.Actually i agree with you on this point that they no doubt about it were the guiding sheep in torrent world and provided us with a fantastic tracker but also i am disappointed in those guys because i thought they could win but in the end there is no doubt about they will be facing the prison and they have to shell out that money from their pockets so what option they had.But only if they could have tried.But Alas........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Believe me, they have tried, but to no avail :PBesides they're smart guys, if they had fought this battle until they reached the point of no return then they would've ended up getting screwed by the record industry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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