Yeah ... riiiiight. Totally not going to work IMO but they can try.

Basically, a billionaire from Sweden is planning on buying the Pirate Bay for a couple million dollars and try to persuade the users still on TPB to actually pay for the things they were downloading in the first place. In addition to that, the users will actually get paid for sharing their bandwidth. Not sure how much the pay rate will be though.

The thing I don’t understand is that the companies [i.e. everyone] who was against TPB is going to somehow be persuaded to sell their products on the sae site also. I am highly skeptical of this and as bugbrain_04 said on the Wired article :

“If file sharers are not happy,” he said, “they’ll just go to the next site.”

Exactly. Which is, coincidentally, exactly what I will now do.

Oh, and this one from RaZBoZ :

This is not going to work. People flocked to the Pirate Bay because it was a symbol: a symbol of digital freedom. It gained power from these people that invested their time and their bandwith, at great personal risk it turns out, to share information. This is not just movies, or music or games, as technophile points out. these were books, comics, applications, and anything else anyone felt the world should share. This will not be provided for by the new company. The idea behind TPB was always freedom, and was always piracy. Make people pay and they will leave, and the community will live on. I wish nothing but bad luck and bankrupcy to this Corporate Bay, and hope the users can recover from this blow.

Check out the article : [ clicky ]

Oh man, these new commercials are hilarious only because they’re stupid. Check out Fast Company for the full article and some humorous YouTube comments. I’ve added one of the commercials after the jump.

Article : [ clicky ]

This video is pretty nice, especially the “supernova” effects.

Lupe Fiasco is coming out with a new album soon and made this short PSA [well, it seems like one]. I’m anticipating this album’s release now. Found via Hypebeast.