New Pirate Bay Exec Buries the Hatchet, Calls RIAA "Good Guys"
New Pirate Bay Exec Buries the Hatchet, Calls RIAA "Good Guys"
Posted 07/20/2009 at 1:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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Get ready for a whole new kind of Pirate Bay, one that embraces the RIAA rather than try to fight it. That is, if investors okay the $7.8 million deal that would have Global Gaming Factory acquire the popular torrent sharing site. Already getting a head start, the Swedish software company has hired Wayne Rosso, the former president of Grokster and founder of Massboxx, to help hammer out licensing deals with content owners.
"I've gotten friendly with a lot of these guys," Rosso said of Mitch Bainwol, the RIAA's CEO and other music industry execs. "These are good guys. They've been wonderful to me. Other people in the business have been nice to me but they've had to hold thier nose."
Rosso's comments are in stark contrast to an opinion he held during his days with the now defunct Grokster. Back then, Rosso compared RIAA execs to Stalin. But, as Rosso notes, "The Pirate Bay has turned over a legitimate new leaf, so it has to be above board from the first day."
That means a new business model, one which will likely include unlimited music downloads for a monthly fee. Rosso says that eventually users will be able to pay nothing to download music, so long as the tunes stay tied to the user's computer.
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VaMage
July 20, 2009 at 1:14pm
Aren't the words, "Good guys" and RIAA or MPAA an oxymoron? Not that the theives are the good guys, but come on man...
VaMage
American by Birth, But Southern by the Grace of God.
sk8nrck2
July 20, 2009 at 8:22am
I guess every p2p site will eventually be shut down, but they can't stop those people who hand out burnt CD's to there friends, can they?
CAN THEY? MUHAHAHAHAHA
and personally, I like the new theme.
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Nuxes
July 19, 2009 at 11:45pm
So it's Napster all over again?
BTW, I don't like the new site color theme. Red and black looks too harsh; orange was much better.
QuadCoreAbe
July 20, 2009 at 4:31am
Same here... TPB will turn into Napster and something else will turn into The Pirate Bay. Its the infinite cycle of torrent P2P.
I can't stand that new theme either! white background hurts my eyes after a few minutes.
QuadCoreAbe
July 20, 2009 at 4:31am
Same here... TPB will turn into Napster and something else will turn into The Pirate Bay. Its the infinite cycle of torrent P2P.
I can't stand that new theme either! white background hurts my eyes after a few minutes.
nekollx
July 20, 2009 at 8:34am
andthe cycle begins again
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