Pirate Bay retrial denied; judge declared "unbiased"
arstechnica.com 6/25/2009 —
A Swedish court ruled today that the judge overseeing The Pirate Bay trial earlier this year was not biased by belonging to various pro-copyright organizations. The unanimous decision (Swedish) means that there will be no retrial; the ...
Pirate Bay Retrial Denied
wired.com 6/25/2009 — A Swedish appellate court rules there will be no retrial in the Pirate Bay case amid accusations the trial judge was biased against the four founders of the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker.
Pirate Bay Judge Not Biased, No Retrial
torrentfreak.com 6/25/2009 — A few days after the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial was made public, judge Tomas Norström was heavily criticized for his involvement with pro-copyright lobby groups. To everyone’s surprise, Norström never declared these activities before he ...
Court deems The Pirate Bay judge unbiased, no retrial
obsessable.com 6/25/2009 — Reuters: http://bit.ly/eLzpI After The Pirate Bay was found guilty of assisting copyright infringement , its lawyers appealed the verdict, claiming that the judge had personal ties to the petitioners. The news today is that the Swedish appeals court has cleared the judge of that accusation ...
Swedish court declares Pirate Bay judge unbiased
betanews.com 6/25/2009 — By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Stockholm District Court Judge Tomas Norström, whose impartiality was called into question after his guilty judgment in the Pirate Bay trial, has been found bias-free by Swedish courts. Judge Norström is a member of two ...
Swedish court says Pirate Bay judge not biased
techspot.com 6/25/2009 — A few days after being found guilty of assisting copyright infringement, sentenced to heavy fines and a year behind bars, the lawyer for one of The Pirate Bay's co-founders charged that judge Tomas Norstroem belonged to pro-copyright groups and was ...
Pirate Bay’s YouTube Competitor is “Coming Soon”
torrentfreak.com 6/28/2009 — More than two years have passed since The Pirate Bay team first announced that they were working on a video streaming site. However, as with most of their projects it can take a while before the public can catch a glimpse of what they are working on. ...
Pirate Bay's Video Bay takes on YouTube
techradar.com 6/29/2009 — The owners of Pirate Bay may be facing a year in jail for copyright infringement but the website is still trying to find ways to get premium content on the web for free. The Video Bay is a video spin-off of the P2P link site and is now in "beta extreme", according to its makers. The project has ...
The Video Bay would Hulu and YouTube if it had a chance of actually working
obsessable.com 6/29/2009 — The new video-sharing site from the guys behind The Pirate Bay could be much more threatening to the TV and movie industries than BitTorrent, but is it really legally or technically feasible? The Pirate Bay is the largest web venue in the world of sharing files via the BitTorrent protocol, ...
Pirate Bay Fires Its Copyright-busting Cannon At YouTube
uk.techcrunch.com 6/29/2009 — Supposedly, the The Pirate Bay guys were found guilty in their recent trial in Sweden, and, supposedly, they got sentenced to a year in prison and had to pay $4.5 million in damages.
But back in the parallel universe which happens to be the real ...
The Pirate Bay Takes on YouTube with The Video Bay
appscout.com 6/29/2009 — The Pirate Bay, the infamous Scandinavian Web site whose founders were found guilty of contributing to copyright infringement earlier this year, have expanded their horizons. The Pirate Bay hosts trackers, which index the various pieces of a ...
The Pirate Bay sold for £4.7 million?
techradar.com 6/30/2009 — The Pirate Bay is in the midst of a takeover bid, with software company Global Gaming Factory X likely to bid 60,000,000 Swedish Krona (£4.7 million) for the website. The takeover could mean big changed to the website, which is currently one of the biggest purveyors of links to copyrighted ...
The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal
torrentfreak.com 6/30/2009 — Software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) says it is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay and file-sharing technology company Peerialism.
The changeover of ownership is scheduled for August 2009, whereby GGF will take over the operation ...
BREAKING: The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million
mashable.com 6/30/2009 — Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of 7.8 million dollars.
This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. ...
Opinion: Selling the Pirate Bay will kill it off
techradar.com 6/30/2009 — Torrent fiends, it's time to fly your Jolly Roger at half-mast: The Pirate Bay is no more . It hasn't been killed by the copyright cops, though. It's going to be killed with the very best intentions. On the face of it, the news that Global Gaming Factory X is going to pay around £4.7 million ...
Pirate Bay to sell
feeds.boingboing.net 6/30/2009 — Good on the operators of The Pirate Bay , who created a cultural phenomenon, kicked the entertainment industry's hidebound and useless middlemen in the nuts, and now get to cash out by selling it to a more "legitimate" company . I wonder if the new owners understand that changing what the site ...
Swedish Software Firm Acquires The Pirate Bay For $7.7 Million
techcrunch.com 6/30/2009 — Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X this morning announced it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to approx. $7.7 million). In addition, GGF has entered into an ...
The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents
torrentfreak.com 6/30/2009 — 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 ...
Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) acquires The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million
obsessable.com 6/30/2009 — The Pirate Bay blog: http://bit.ly/2LRNYT In a move that many are comparing to what happened to Napster, The Pirate Bay has sold to a Swedish gaming company, noting: "If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That's the biggest insurance one can have ...
Could Someone Just Recreate The Pirate Bay? —
Techdirt
As plenty of people have been pointing out, if The Pirate Bay goes away/changes/shuts down/whatever, there are a ton of sites ready and eagerly waiting to take it's place. But JJ King makes an even bigger point: the whole of The Pirate Bay is not a lot of data, such that it would be rather easy ...
The Pirate Bay, well on its way to irrelevance at record speed —
CrunchGear
Man alive is The Pirate Bay finished! Business Week has an interview with Hans Pandeya , the CEO of Global Gaming Factory, the company that’s set to buy The Pirate Bay for nearly $8 million (provided it can come up with the money). What’s mainly discussed it what type of business ...
Insider Trading Allegations Rock Pirate Bay Sale. —
I4U News
Yesterday we learned that The Pirate Bay was being sold to the Global Gaming Factory (GGF). Ever since then I've been wondering just why GGF would want to purchase the Pirate Bay. Sure, they get millions of unique viewers every day, but it's pretty obvious...
Pirate Bay Launches The Video Bay —
WebProNews Feed
Those tiring of the growing restrictions put by rightsholders on video on You Tube and elsewhere may eventually find a home at The Video Bay. Currently in "beta extreme", the site is the latest brainchild of the folks behind the Pirate Bay; and if their mounting problems in ...
Is the Pirate Bay Actually Dead? [The Pirate Bay] —
Gizmodo
Your worst fears about The Pirate Bay acquisition might be coming true: Peter Sunde told Torrent Freak that they are indeed closing down TPB's tracker and decentralizing to the point listed torrents won't be hosted on the site anymore. There's an update at the end of the post from Global ...
Pirate Bay Pulls a Napster: Sells for $8 Million —
Fast Company - Technology
Just like Napster , the music sharing site that was sold in the midst of its legal woes, Pirate Bay has just been bought by Global Gaming Factory for $7.8 million. So while its creators still face jail time , the Bay's about to go semi-legit.
Pirate Bay is one of the 100 most visited ...
The Pirate Bay Purchased [Breaking] —
Kotaku
The Pirate Bay has been purchased and is perhaps looking to go legit. Software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has shelled out approximately US$7.8 million for the site.
The acquisition appears...
The Pirate Bay acquired for $7.8 million —
The Inquisitr » Technology
Software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) has entered an agreement to acquire The Pirate Bay for SEK 60 million ($7.8 million.)
The company said that it intends to launch new business models that allow compensation to the content providers and copyright owners” on the Pirate ...
The Pirate Bay sold for £4.7million —
Tech Digest
It's been a busy few weeks for the Pirate Bay. Firstly it was announced that the founders had been heavily fined and sentenced to prison in their court case in Sweden. Then the Pirate Party wins two seats in the EU elections . And yesterday we told you about their Video Bay project . But ...
Pirate Bay Bought Out, Suddenly Respects Copyrights [File Sharing] —
Gizmodo
The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking down nearly $8 million for the privilege. Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously. Global Gaming Factory X is, in their words, the ...
RIP, Pirate Bay —
The Register
Notes on an exit strategy Comment So The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else's stuff away for free - then find a bigger idiot to buy the company.… What is your recession sales strategy?
Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay —
CNET News - Security
The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site entangled in a court case over pirated music, will be bought by a Swedish software company.
Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) announced the deal Tuesday. The company, which provides digital distribution tools for ...
Pirate Bay scooped up by Swedish software firm —
The Register
Mulls biz model that compensates copyright owners Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) has agreed to buy BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay for $7.7m (60m Swedish Crowns), according to a statement on the company's website.… Case Study: ...
Pirate Bay judge ruled unbiased —
CNET News.com
Swedish court rules the judge in the high-profile Pirate Bay case is not biased. The court will now look at the main appeal of the one-year prison verdict for the men behind the file-sharing site.
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