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- Global Gaming's Pirate Bay Deal Approved By Shareholders
- The new Pirate Bay is born: Global Gaming Factory X’s long-running and controversial attempt to buy the infamous and often outlawed Torrent-tracking site has been approved by the company’s shareholders. It’s against all the odds: key investors pulled out of the the SEK60 million (£5.1 million) deal in the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Media Roundup: Facebook Backtracks on Terms of Service Flap, The Pirate Bay Has its Day in Court and More
- In Today's Media Roundup: Facebook backtracks on Terms of Service flap, The Pirate Bay has its day in court, Politico on track to make millions, New York Times is the paper of record on the Web, but stock down by half, Many channels switch to digital today, Sirius and XM...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
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- File sharers hold vigil for Pirate Bay
- The Pirate Bay--the BitTorrent tracker revered by file sharers across the globe and reviled by some of the world's biggest entertainment companies--is under siege like never before.Many Pirate Bay fans believed that the site had met its end.(Credit: Twitter)Black Internet, the largest Internet service provider supplying bandwidth to the site,...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Pirate Bay deal runs into choppy waters
- A deal to turn The Pirate Bay, the world's largest file-sharing website, into a legal operation was in doubt on Wednesday ahead of its proposed SKr60m ($8.3m) takeover by a Swedish software group.Shareholders in Global Gaming Factory GGF were scheduled to vote on Thursday on its plan to buy...
- External links 2009-08-26
- Pirate Bay acquisition appears to be unraveling
- Don't wave goodbye to the old Pirate Bay just yet.The Stockholm-based company that whipped the media into frenzy in June by announcing it would acquire The Pirate Bay, has come under scrutiny after numerous questions were raised about its ability to complete the deal. The personal financial dealings of the...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Pirate Bay back online after fine threat
- The site could be accessed late in the afternoon yesterday after it had been taken offline the previous day. The Pirate Bay's founders issued a statement in which they vowed to continue their fight against the Swedish authorities. "We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Pirate Bay Bidder Dreams Of Floating On Nasdaq
- Sweden's Global Gaming Factory X is already trying to pull off the three unlikely feats of buying The Pirate Bay, legalising it and profiting from users' hard disc space. For its next trick, the little-heard of cybecafe software maker wants to list on the New York Stock Exchange.Its announcement:...
- External links 2009-08-05
- After Running Aground, New Pirate Bay Acquisition Chatter Is Afloat
- Global Gaming Factory X GGF‘s much-hyped and now defunct bid to buy BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay was a ship that never sailed. But more bidders could be on the horizon…Swedish games download site Gamersgate.com and, bizarrely, GGF CEO Hans Pandeya are amongst them, according to DI.se (via Thelocal.se).Pirate...
- External links 2009-10-28
- GGF stockholders approve Pirate Bay acquisition
- IDG News Service - Global Gaming Factory X GGF shareholders voted to acquire file-sharing site The Pirate Bay at a meeting in Stockholm on Thursday. That a majority of the stockholders in GGF gave the acquisition its blessing doesn't come as a surprise since Global Gaming Factory CEO Hans Pandeya...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Pirate Bay Acquisition Deadline Passes; Still No Sale
- There seems to be as much chance of Global Gaming Factory X buying the Mary Celeste as it buying The Pirate Bay. The company’s shaky, non-specific and uncertain SEK60 million (£5.38 million) attempt to buy the Swedish P2P tracker has been well documented, but now the game may finally...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Swedish Exchange Delists Stock Of Pirate Bay Buyer
- As if any more doubt could be cast on the chances of Global Gaming Factory X’s GGF offer to buy the Pirate Bay going through ... Now, Swedish stock market AktieTorget has delisted GGF’s stock for violating its “transparency principle,” according to a statement from the exchange. AktieTorget had...
- External links 2009-09-10
- Norwegian ISP doesn't have to block Pirate Bay, says court
- IDG News Service - Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a ruling from the district court for Asker and Bærum on Friday. The entertainment industry has been trying to get Telenor to block The Pirate Bay since February, when it...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download [The Pirate Bay]
- Copy this whole post to another site With the Pirate Bay set to close in the next few days, one anonymous user has put together a single massive archive of all 873,671 torrent files hosted on its servers. Remember: this is a torrent file index, not the petabytes of data...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Swedish court pulls plug on Pirate Bay
- The Pirate Bay's largest internet service provider has cut service to the filesharing site in compliance with a court orderThe music and movie industries have scored another victory against filesharing site The Pirate Bay. A Swedish court has ordered its largest internet service provider to cut its connection or face...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Swedish Authorities Sink 'Pirate Bay'; Huge Worldwide Supplier of Illegal Movies Told No Safe Harbors for Facilitators of Piracy
- LOS ANGELES, May 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Swedish authorities announced today that they have shut down "The Pirate Bay" -- one of the world's largest and most well known facilitators of online piracy. With more than one million registered users, "The Pirate Bay" touts itself as the "World's Largest...
- Research articles 2006-05-31
- Would-Be Pirate Bay Buyer Faces Bankruptcy Filing
- After being kicked off the Swedish stock market for not providing evidence of the funds needed to buy giant BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory X is facing a bankruptcy filing from a former director claiming to be owed more than SEK1.3 million (£116,000).As TorrentFreak, the...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Pirate Bay founders threatened with fine if file-sharing site stays open
- File-sharing site The Pirate Bay should be closed, and if it isn't, two of the founders will each have to pay a fine of 500,000 Swedish kronor ($71,500), according to a verdict in the Stockholm District Court on Wednesday. Back in May, the entertainment industry -- represented...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Swedish prosecutor indicts Pirate Bay file sharing site
- STOCKHOLM AFP — A Swedish prosecutor filed charges on Thursday against four people suspected of running one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of films, music and computer games. Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem, are suspected of organising and running...
- Research articles 2008-01-31
- Media Roundup: The Pirate Bay Found Guilty, YouTube Adds Premium Content and More
- In Today's Media Roundup: The Pirate Bay found guilty, YouTube adds premium content, Gannett revenue down, News ink company declares bankruptcy, NYT cuts sections and Video game sales down 17 percent. by Sean Blanda
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Tech Law: Apple Loses Suit, EU Intel Finding, Pirate Bay Again, More
- Apple loses patent suit; Judge extends Microsoft antitrust oversight; EU finding on Intel coming soon and probably isn't pretty; engineer sues Sony for allegedly shady dealing; Pirate Bay case judge impartiality questioned; and judge won't delay Polaroid asset sale. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
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