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 same 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 band­width, 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 bank­ruptcy to this Cor­po­rate Bay, and hope the users can recover from this blow.

Check out the arti­cle : [ clicky ].