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kratos2342
05-04-2010, 07:13 AM
Following the announcement that Hans Pandeya is having a second shot atbuying The Pirate Bay after last year’s failed attempt, itappears he has a rival bid. Media reports state that the GGF boss willnow buy the site for $10 million, but TorrentFreak has managed to get$11 million together and will buy the site tomorrow afternoon at 3pm.

According to a press releaseyesterday, Business Marketing Services Inc. has agreed to pay $10million for the name and assets of BitTorrent monster The Pirate Bay.
CEO Hans Pandeya, who most people know from his Global GamingFactory fame, will relaunch the the site on June 30th this year as a“paid legal content site”.

“The technology out there to deliver entertainment is from the stone age,” Pandeya said.

Pandeya says that the new site will be just like the old site exceptthat it will only offer content that has been licensed by BusinessMarketing Services Inc.



read rest topic @ http://torrentfreak.com/torrentfreak-to-buy-pirate-bay-for-11-million-100428/

thanks to torrentfreak for info

mrnobody
05-04-2010, 10:38 AM
nice pun at the end :lol:

Rart
05-04-2010, 01:17 PM
Following the announcement that Hans Pandeya is having a second shot atbuying The Pirate Bay after last year’s failed attempt, itappears he has a rival bid. Media reports state that the GGF boss willnow buy the site for $10 million, but TorrentFreak has managed to get$11 million together and will buy the site tomorrow afternoon at 3pm.

According to a press releaseyesterday, Business Marketing Services Inc. has agreed to pay $10million for the name and assets of BitTorrent monster The Pirate Bay.
CEO Hans Pandeya, who most people know from his Global GamingFactory fame, will relaunch the the site on June 30th this year as a“paid legal content site”.

“The technology out there to deliver entertainment is from the stone age,” Pandeya said.

Pandeya says that the new site will be just like the old site exceptthat it will only offer content that has been licensed by BusinessMarketing Services Inc.



read rest topic @ http://torrentfreak.com/torrentfreak-to-buy-pirate-bay-for-11-million-100428/

thanks to torrentfreak for info

You do realize they're kidding right?

Because, you know, you actually read the entire article before posting it here?

ipa
05-04-2010, 01:58 PM
"Of course, absolutely nothing you’ve read so far in this article has a single grain of truth in it."

Cabalo
05-04-2010, 04:51 PM
Yeah OP, definitely you should read it all before copy pasting this here.

Skiz
05-04-2010, 05:48 PM
Following the announcement that Hans Pandeya is having a second shot atbuying The Pirate Bay after last year’s failed attempt, itappears he has a rival bid. Media reports state that the GGF boss willnow buy the site for $10 million, but TorrentFreak has managed to get$11 million together and will buy the site tomorrow afternoon at 3pm.

According to a press releaseyesterday, Business Marketing Services Inc. has agreed to pay $10million for the name and assets of BitTorrent monster The Pirate Bay.
CEO Hans Pandeya, who most people know from his Global GamingFactory fame, will relaunch the the site on June 30th this year as a“paid legal content site”.

“The technology out there to deliver entertainment is from the stone age,” Pandeya said.

Pandeya says that the new site will be just like the old site exceptthat it will only offer content that has been licensed by BusinessMarketing Services Inc.



read rest topic @ http://torrentfreak.com/torrentfreak-to-buy-pirate-bay-for-11-million-100428/

thanks to torrentfreak for info

You do realize they're kidding right?

Because, you know, you actually read the entire article before posting it here?

This pretty much says it all.

Closed.