Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
by Ben Jones
After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.
The deal, worth over $13 billion (10 billion euros) came about after the recent performance at the Pirate Bay trial gave strong indications that the judgment would go against Warner Bros. For the Hollywood movie studio, it seems that acquiring The Pirate Bay was the only option left.
In the press release, both groups gave a positive outlook to the deal. “The Pirate Bay team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Warner Bros’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” said Jim Kjeyzer, Chief Executive Officer of Warner Bros.”
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was similarly forward looking saying “Our community has played a vital role in changing the way that people consume media, creating a new hip culture. By joining forces with Warner Bros, we can benefit from its global reach and technology leadership to deliver a more comprehensive entertainment experience for our users and to create new opportunities for our partners.”
A press conference will be held later today to discuss the finer aspects of the acquisition. The conference will be broadcasted live on the Internet and details for access to the webcast are included in the press release.
How the Pirate Bay’s users will deal with this deal is the only wild-card. Will it be another Exeem, or will it blossom into something powerful and progressive. Only time will tell.
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by Ben Jones
After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.
The deal, worth over $13 billion (10 billion euros) came about after the recent performance at the Pirate Bay trial gave strong indications that the judgment would go against Warner Bros. For the Hollywood movie studio, it seems that acquiring The Pirate Bay was the only option left.
In the press release, both groups gave a positive outlook to the deal. “The Pirate Bay team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Warner Bros’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” said Jim Kjeyzer, Chief Executive Officer of Warner Bros.”
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was similarly forward looking saying “Our community has played a vital role in changing the way that people consume media, creating a new hip culture. By joining forces with Warner Bros, we can benefit from its global reach and technology leadership to deliver a more comprehensive entertainment experience for our users and to create new opportunities for our partners.”
A press conference will be held later today to discuss the finer aspects of the acquisition. The conference will be broadcasted live on the Internet and details for access to the webcast are included in the press release.
How the Pirate Bay’s users will deal with this deal is the only wild-card. Will it be another Exeem, or will it blossom into something powerful and progressive. Only time will tell.
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Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
very interesting
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- Bandit
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Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
Ya,it is.Didn't see that one coming.Better grab what I need.
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Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
What day is it?
Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
I'm left wondering if this might actually be an april fools joke on behalf of TPB. They did a practical joke last year too by stating that their servers had all been moved to Egypt or somewhere if memory serves me right.
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Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
you just maybe right sadalius
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Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
Man!! Of course this is a prank
WB buying TPB on April Fools Day.
C'mon get outta here
Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
Got 2b a prank man!
Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
I'm not so sure....
at first, I would have thought so, but no-ones come out from either end saying 'April Fools', and I would have thought a company like Warner would have quashed a 'rumour' like that almost instantly...
at first, I would have thought so, but no-ones come out from either end saying 'April Fools', and I would have thought a company like Warner would have quashed a 'rumour' like that almost instantly...
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Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
God I hope this is a joke.
Yet the above statement make a lot of sense, and also makes me a little sad.lilrevuk wrote:...and I would have thought a company like Warner would have quashed a 'rumour' like that almost instantly...
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Re: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
i really think its not a prank cause if its a prank they wouldnt lave the wb logo still on