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A few months ago when I moved home, I had noticed an extreme drop in the bandwidth of our wireless network. Initially it had been assumed that it was due to the addition of another PC to the network (and I do use quite a bit of bandwidth). Well after a week had gone by I decided to look into the issue to see if I could speed things up a bit.
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On June 30th, the popular torrent tracker, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has recently been acquired by Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF). The acquisition appears to be a step toward making the site legal. GGF plans to launch a new business model that allow compensation to the content providers and copyright owners. Responsibility and ownership of the site and all it’s domains will be taken over by GGF in a scheduled finalization of the transaction in August 2009.

With a new business model in store for TPB, will it be the next Napster? According to a statement from TPB blog:

“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.”

Perhaps this will keep TPB how it’s users they like it, as long as it stays legal of course ^_^”. I guess all we can do is keep watching to see how this acquisition develops.

Sources: MarketWatch, Kotaku, The Pirate Bay

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