Unii oameni n-au ce face cu $7.8 milioane

Well, ca o mica stire pentru astazi, celebrul tracker de torente The Pirate Bay a fost achizitionat de o firma privata GGF, Global Gaming Factory pentru modica suma de 7.8 milioane de dolari. Echipa TPB a anuntat ca va dona suma primita unor organizatii care militeaza pentru libertate in software ( yeah sure ). Eh, de la stirea asta pana la un mic rant de al meu e pas mic, de ce naibii au cumparat cei de la GGF acest site pentru a implementa un sistem nou cand ar fi mers la fel de bine un nou nume in lumea asta a internetului !

De ce unii oameni trebuie sa strice ceva, firma asta cumpara TPB in scopul transformarii sitului intr-un mediu legal de filesharing, in care cei ce detin drepturile de autor sunt platiti pentru munca lor. Trezirea la realitate, s-a mai incercat asta si la Napster si am vazut ce a iesit de acolo. Oamenii nu vizitau TPB pentru calitatea trackerului lor, oamenii vizitau TPB pentru a downloada chestii gratuit, nici macar nu este cel mai mare tracker, isoHunt generand trafic mai mult, dar a fost un tracker de torrents care a stiut sa isi faca publicitate.

Nu stiu exact daca eu gandesc gresit sau chiar asa e, dar de ce sa dai 7.8 milioane de dolari pentru a strica ceva bine stabilit. Oricum, le urez bafta celor de la GGF pentru orice ar vrea ei sa faca.

*Update* Tocmai a fost scris un articol pe reddit de catre Kristoffer Smedlund ( neoficial ) in care descrie situatia si neintelerea aparuta:

“

To clarify a bit..

TPB has been owned by a company for the last years since the raid so nothing there will really change except the names of the owners. The talk about TPB are going to be a pay site is wrong, the CEO that said that does not know what he is talking about.

Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents. This setup will be practically impossible to take down or find anyone liable to sue.

The 3d party company services will have APIs, so you can on your blog or whatever have your own small torrent listings just as you now pull in twitter feeds. remember how the twitter design totally havoced the iranian attempts to block it as ppl just used another side that pulled in the feeds and read it there instead? well that goes for torrents and TPB to.

All in all, this is not the end of the world as some are seeing it but a rather interesting technical improvement.

And dont worry, not a dime will go to the media industries spectrial prize money what i know of but a really nice fund for doing cool stuff.

/krs – co.founder of TPB and PB, not involved in TPB anymore and have no stake in any cash.”

Dupa cum am spus, inca nu se stie daca este oficiala, dar daca intr-adevar este asa, miscarea este extraordinara si in spiritul Pirate Bay Kudos

~ prin zecosmin pe iunie 30, 2009.