Recently Global Gaming Factory, the company who announced that they'll acquire The Pirate Bay, hired a former Grokster exec Wayne Rosso to assist with the company with its future plans for TPB. In an interview with CNET News Wayne Rosso outlined GGF's plans for the notorious torrent site.
According to Rosso, GGF plans to build a massive "storage cloud" on top of TPB that would use individual ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:As the service would use P2P technology, it could bring massive savings to ISPs, as the delivery of content to an end user would be provided from the closest possible "node", most likely from an user within the same ISP network.
Why in the world would anyone give a crap about bringing "massive savings to the ISP's"?
The ISP's have done nothing but screw with the end user. Prices have done nothing but rise, and with new caps, availability has done nothing but shrink.
Anyone honestly think that these so-called "massive savings" would be passed on to you and me? Or do you think it's more likely that while they are generating their "massive savings" on your back, they'll be simultaneously ripping you off for your heavy bandwidth use.
Gotcha coming and going, I think.
I have no desire for any kind of a paid or subsidized "pirate" site.
As for "the boys"... I'll reserve my judgment until I see what happens with the tracker.
windsong, maybe you ought to cut off your right hand in protest! Them going to jail would not help anyone any more than if you cut off your hand. Why should they give a rats ass about what you think, I sure don't! What did you do to to earn that kind of loyalty? Download files for free? I am sure you are the last of the big spenders.
ChiefBrdy, they only got enough cash to pay their legal fees. The rest was stock in the new site. That isn't worth the paper it is printed on.
The pirate bay is only forcing us to now download movies music and games to sell to others to maintain the cash to have a subscription. so in other words they are making piracy worse.
Come on Zippy you are smarter than that! They (media mafia) are not even close to that smart. Those rabid dogs will go after anyone or anything, breathing or not. They have gone after Jamie Thomas and not lets not forget printers and fax machines.
