The Pirate Bay Sells for $7.8 million
The Pirate Bay was sold to a software company for $7.8 million. Global Gaming Factory X is set to acquire it in August 2009.
For those of us who use TPB regularly, this sounds terrible. However, according to TPB's they plan to offer the same content, as always, but with a legal approach. The company promises to offer compensation to copyright owners, as well as provide faster download speeds to users. The one thing they've left out, however, is how.
While this sounds great, and could easily be a good or a bad thing, users have already started looking for alternative torrent sites to use. An article was posted on ZeroPaid that lists 5 alternative services.
What torrent site will you use if things go south at The Pirate Bay?
More BitTorrent Users Go Anonymous
TorrentFreak reports that more BitTorrent users are going anonymous, seeking services that hide their identities from anti-piracy groups. Such services (commonly known as seedboxes) are commonly "off shore" in many places where Copyright laws are non-existant.
In additoon to those such services, The Pirate Bay also has a service of their own, known as IPREDATOR, which uses VPN technology to allow you to proxify all of your internet usage, protecting you from those DMCA letters as well.
[Continue reading @ TorrentFreak]
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