Archive for October 2nd, 2009

Pirate Bay sale taking on water, headed to Davy Jones Locker (Ars Technica)

With the passing of the latest deadline to buy The Pirate Bay, the deal with prospective buyer Global Gaming Factory (GGF) now looks as dim as a Swedish winter day. Not that this a new position for GGF to find itself in; skepticism has dogged the deal ever since it was announced back in June [...]

Google strips Pirate Bay homepage from search results (The Register)

Mountain View executes DMCA takedown The Pirate Bay’s homepage and seven other pages relating to the BitTorrent tracker website have been removed from Google’s search engine, following a DMCA complaint.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Prospective Pirate Bay buyer loses key technology partner (Network World)

The deal between Global Gaming Factory (GGF) X and Peerialism, whose P-to-P (peer-to-peer) technology was supposed to be a key component of the new Pirate Bay’s infrastructure, has been called off, according to Peerialism’s CEO Johan Ljungberg.

Prospective Pirate Bay Buyer Loses Key Technology Partner (PC World)

GGF, the prospective Pirate Bay buyer, has lost a key technology partner necessary for the revamped Web site.