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The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power [The Pirate Bay]
gizmodo.com - 7/17/2009
The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power [The Pirate Bay]
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The Pirate Bay may not actually be dead , but major changes are on their way. Details on the new management's legit business model have surfaced, and it will involve subsidizing your monthly fees in exchange for computing power. Gaming Factory's Chief Executive Officer Hans Pandeya describes ...
lifehacker.com - 7/17/2009
Pirate Bay to Start Charging Users Monthly Fee [BitTorrent]
— lifehacker.com — Late last month, we told you that the recently acquired Pirate Bay may introduce a "compensation model".... Now comes confirmation that the new owners, Swedish company Global Gaming Factory, will... (more) Pirate Bay to Start Charging Users Monthly Fee [BitTorrent]
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The Pirate Bay's New Business Model.
I4U News — ... that The Pirate Bay had been sold to the Swedish-owned Gaming Factory we wondered just how they intended to make TPB profitable. The whole reason that the Bay routinely sees tens of millions of views every day is because it is the largest torrent site on the Internet. Next to no one visits that website when they aren't looking to steal media. Now the Gaming Factory has disclosed their business plan . They're going to turn the Bay into a paid subscription site and use the revenue from those subscriptions to pay content providers. Users will be able to subsidize their fee by ...

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