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IFPI pressures Global Gaming Factor on Pirate Bay money

article published on 10 August, 2009

Global Gaming Factor's CEO Hans Pandeya recently received a letter from IFPI general council Jo Oliver informing him that the trade group will be lobbying the Swedish authorities to block any money transaction between the company the Pirate Bay, and that they would push for Global Gaming to be forced to turn over information about the acquisition. It had been speculated that the IFPI ... [ read the full article ]

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nonoitall
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_ 		11. August 2009 @ 04:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's kind of funny - ever since TPB lost their court case, the entertainment industry has been all atwitter trying to figure out the best way to deliver the coup de grâce to the site. And as they bumble around trying to do this, a dozen copies of TPB have all cropped up and TPB has aimed all of its new torrent files at these clones.

It just goes to demonstrate the entertainment industry's unparalleled ability to waste colossal amounts of time and money achieving absolutely nothing. And at the same time, they fight tooth-and-nail to avoid doing the simple (not to mention inexpensive) things that could save them, like eliminating DRM and letting their customers keep (and, gasp! share) the music that they buy. Truly an industry blinded by greed.
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emugamer
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_ 		11. August 2009 @ 11:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If the IFPI knows how to do one thing well, it's beating a dead horse.
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