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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

The Piratebay Sold To Swedish Software Company

We had to check the date on the story that was posted on Techcrunch this morning which basically stated that Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X bought The Piratebay for 60 million Swedish crowns. It is rare that websites like The Piratebay get bought off, they usually cease to exist either by legal pressure [...]

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Categories: P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 3

TechCrunch: Last.fm Data Was Leaked After All To The RIAA

TechCrunch ran a story back in February were they claimed that Last.fm data was handed over to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The data dump in question was being analyzed to find information about unreleased music tracks that have been played by users. They received lots of fire for that article from Last.fm [...]

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