From thoughts to text » GGF http://blog.torh.net The personal blog of Tor Håkon Haugen Sun, 20 May 2012 11:19:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Can we trust The New Piratebay? http://blog.torh.net/2009/06/30/can-we-trust-the-new-piratebay/ http://blog.torh.net/2009/06/30/can-we-trust-the-new-piratebay/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:50:30 +0000 Tor Håkon Haugen http://blog.torh.net/?p=566 Continue reading →]]> Earlier today it was annonced that The Piratebay might get sold to a Swedish company called Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) operated by Hans Pandeya, a man with a shady reputation (In Swedish).

For all we know, this might just be a PR stunt. But if so, it’s a bad one. I predict that if the sales go through, it will drive most of the users away and over to other file sharing sites. Just the idea of a corporation owning the TPB-user database is scary.

It’s been a nice 5-and-so years at The Piratebay, but I think I’ll go for a swim now, and I’m not sure if I ever will return. Also, this blows my “The Piratebay Preferred Partner”-joke I’ve been doing in the company for the last few years.

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