Archive for September 11th, 2009
The proposed Pirate Bay sale appeared all but dead Thursday, leaving unanswered questions about the BitTorrent tracker’s future. Will it turn into an online drug store, continue to operate in defiance of a Swedish court order or would the Motion Picture Association of America acquire the site and transform it into an anti-piracy campaign. Vote [...]
The would-be buyer of Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been kicked out of the smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget for misleading the market, the Swedish trading platform said Wednesday. Aktietorget said Global Gaming Factory X breached its transparency principles by saying the financing of The Pirate Bay acquisition was secured.
The company planning to purchase The Pirate Bay is de-listed from its Swedish stock exchange after concluding it allegedly duped investors and regulators in the $8.5 million deal.