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 introduce paid subscriptions. Under the new management, all Pirate Bay users will have to pay a monthly fee to access the site. How much users will have to fork over hasn’t been determined, but Bay executive Wayne Rosso says that “the more files people share, the lower it will be.” [via TorrentFreak]
Pirate Bay To Start Charging Users Monthly Fee
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3 responses to “Pirate Bay To Start Charging Users Monthly Fee”
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Wobble
Will that money go to the artists and people who created the stuff we download? Will the authors of the pdf ebooks get some of that? Will the porn stars of the movies I download get some of that?
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clint
I assume that means it will be legal to download something from the site!!??? And the site definitely liable for the content, not the end user.
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Angus Kidman
That’s the assumption they’ll be relying on — but of course it’s a total furphy, in both respects.
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