New Pirate Bay Boss Spells Out Legitimate Future

The potential new boss of torrent website The Pirate Bay – which is set to become a legal music venture once its sale goes through – has outlined his future plans for the site.

Wayne Rosso, whose Global Gaming Factory X AB company will acquire The Pirate Bay in August, revealed he is working with London music executives to create a viable legal version of the notorious torrent website.

Rosso's firm are buying The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish SEK (£4.7 million), shortly after its four founders and hosts were jailed and fined for copyright infringement offences.

In an interview with CNET, Rosso said The Pirate Bay's new regime will offer fans unlimited legal music downloads for a small monthly fee, though a hierarchy uploading scheme could see users' fees lessened depending on how much they use the site.

Working under a "cloud" network system, users will be encouraged to dedicate their own hard drive space to the site.

"The more of your computer resources you contribute to the network, the less you pay down to zero," Rosso said, adding: "The user is in control."

Rosso says he wants the majority of The Pirate Bay's income to come from selling the computer power gained from the cloud scheme, explaining that it will save Internet Service Providers' (ISPs) resources.

"We hope to introduce a new BitTorrent technology that will optimize ISP traffic," he said. "We can save ISPs up to 80 per cent of their resources. Half of the Internet traffic is file-sharing and half of that traffic is Pirate Bay."

Thanks for the report to Nme.com.

Comments

[LifesSweetDrug]

The title should say, "New Pirate Bay Boss Spells Out Failure".

Everyone who uses the pirate bay uses it because they want something for free. If they have to pay for it they are not going to use it.

Global Gaming Factory has just lost £4.7 million, great going.

[AaronianKenrod]

this is the worst news ever. i do download music, but only to see if i like it. if i do, i buy the goddamned album, which means i'm still contributing to the artist (obviously). but, my main problem is tv. using south park as an example, i've been downloading and watching all the seasons in order recently because i live in the UK and the only channel that shows it (that i know of) is comedy central X or something and they don't even show it regularly. i would be up for buying the boxsets, but the states get the episodes on tv for free, so why should i have to pay? not to mention they're streamed on the official south park website, but only for america (and maybe other countries too, but not the UK or australia).

[brentondig]

LifesSweetDrug wrote:

The title should say, "New Pirate Bay Boss Spells Out Failure".

Everyone who uses the pirate bay uses it because they want something for free. If they have to pay for it they are not going to use it.

Global Gaming Factory has just lost £4.7 million, great going.

I will gladly stop using the site once it changes hands. I've already noticed a decline in quality on the site, and am on the move to find a new torrent site. Not for music, really, but still. No one will use it if they have to pay for it. Notice how popular Napster is nowadays? Exactly.

[Chaperoni]

hahahaha what a waste of 4.7 million

[Spartan101400]

He really thinks that people like myself will still continue to use Pirate Bay after hearing about this shoddy plan?

[UnaLaguna]

So much for their "we'll pay you to use our site" plan from before. Turns out there was a pretty big catch.

There will always be other places to get music for free on the Internet.

[shotgunjoe]

I think if it really got to the point where if you used the site enough you wouldn't have to pay for it, but that's never going to happen. You'll basically have to use your entire computer resources as a server to get to that point.

[Comeback Kiddd]

"The more of your computer resources you contribute to the network, the less you pay down to zero," Rosso said, adding: "The user is in control."

Interesting but I smell failure

[Comeback Kiddd]

brentondig wrote:

LifesSweetDrug wrote:

The title should say, "New Pirate Bay Boss Spells Out Failure".

Everyone who uses the pirate bay uses it because they want something for free. If they have to pay for it they are not going to use it.

Global Gaming Factory has just lost £4.7 million, great going.

I will gladly stop using the site once it changes hands. I've already noticed a decline in quality on the site, and am on the move to find a new torrent site. Not for music, really, but still. No one will use it if they have to pay for it. Notice how popular Napster is nowadays? Exactly.

use mininova.org to me its the easiest site to get music without a slight chance of a viruse depending on what people rate it/comment about it.

[Oli_]

The Pirate Bay is a great tracker for legal downloads too, it's a shame it'll soon be gone.

[riseagainst26]

gay im not doing that

[seek_&_destroy]

really?! who the hell did he think he was marketing to? a bunch of kids like us that DO NOT pay for music.

napster PART 2!

[vIsIbleNoIsE]

i won't justify my illegal downloading. i only buy cds if i find a band whose entire discography impresses me and they release a new one, which is a little rare.

but i won't be using pirate bay anymore.

[r3conmarine90]

demonoid here i come. its really too bad...TPB was a great site. But what I dont think they realize is that we'll just keep migrating to different sites, starting new ones if we must, and they'll never be able to stop the sharing. LLFS!

[ricardosevillav]

Wow! that's a fine idea my chap! Ok! so I will download and pay for it... even if the album I'll download suck. I feel I have to pay for my downloads, I'm in the moral obligation to pay for them! And for now on I will only use the pirate bay tom download music even tho i know there are other torrent portals... (By the way I'm being sarcastic...)

[zalitz]

You lost me at "Monthly Fee".

[punXander]

lol not much of a "pirate" bay anymore eh... lol "yar... let's pay for ye booty laddies, not stealz it, yarrr" ... Blackbeard would be rolling in his grave...

[hmcguire]

everyone will just switch to demonoid, theyl go broke in a month

[Morning Star]

So whats' next in file sharing? From Napster to AudioGalaxy to Bittorrent, the music/film industries get each one 'legitimized' after lengthy court battles, and everyone turns to a new method of file sharing. What's the next big thing going to be in file sharing?

[threebillion6]

Morning Star :
So whats' next in file sharing? From Napster to AudioGalaxy to Bittorrent, the music/film industries get each one 'legitimized' after lengthy court battles, and everyone turns to a new method of file sharing. What's the next big thing going to be in file sharing?

i wish i could create the next big thing. then i wouldnt get sued for what people share, and some big company would buy me out and i'd be rich! hell yea. but seriously. they need to realize people wont stop sharing and deal with it. at least we know the next big thing is going to be better/faster than bittorrent. hahah

[loganpwns]

oh no, you might have to PAY for music, just like people use to.

You guys are morons, making a big deal out of paying 1.99 for a song, just be glad you can buy a single song instead of the whole album.

[thanx_bonham]

this makes zero sense - the founders were jailed for copyright infringement, so Rosso's goons are buying their name, which has always been associated with "illegal" downloads - and somehow offer such material for a fee?

it's like the law seizing an opium den then selling it all

not saying it's shocking, i just don't think i understand the concept

[Hamham272]

Wow the comments on this page are all so... stupid. Research a little about what the old owners of The Pirate Bay have said after being sentenced. Then maybe you will understand what they are trying to accomplish, you still won't have to pay a cent for filesharing. Welldone for showing how little you know about torrenting n00bs.

[Slooj]

Hamham272 - did you not notice the "monthly fee" phrase?
Grow some eyes and learn to read.

[KingGohma]

I'm laughing at all the retarded eleven year old pirates who don't know much about economics here.

This is a decent idea - and fairly original too. Applying cloud computing to music downloads could be a very viable enterprise.

[KingGohma]

Also you people neglect to realize that people do still pay for music - i.e. iTunes.

[Robert Gray]

KingGohma wrote:

Also you people neglect to realize that people do still pay for music - i.e. iTunes.

Not to mention us old fashioned music fans who buy CDs.

[j-e-f-f-e-r-s]

Robert Gray wrote:

KingGohma wrote:

Also you people neglect to realize that people do still pay for music - i.e. iTunes.
Not to mention us old fashioned music fans who buy CDs.

Hey, some of us still like to buy Vinyl if we can.

[Robert Gray]

j-e-f-f-e-r-s wrote:

Robert Gray wrote:

KingGohma wrote:

Also you people neglect to realize that people do still pay for music - i.e. iTunes.
Not to mention us old fashioned music fans who buy CDs.

Hey, some of us still like to buy Vinyl if we can.

That makes you even more old fashioned then

[Dempsey68]

BTjunkie it is then

[j-e-f-f-e-r-s]

Robert Gray wrote:

j-e-f-f-e-r-s wrote:

Robert Gray wrote:

KingGohma wrote:

Also you people neglect to realize that people do still pay for music - i.e. iTunes.
Not to mention us old fashioned music fans who buy CDs.

Hey, some of us still like to buy Vinyl if we can.
That makes you even more old fashioned then

Maybe, but the sound quality shits all over mp3

[kranoscorp]

I am disappointed. TPB was the best torrent site, and I am not going to pay a monthly fee for downloads. I guess I'll have to stick with torrent reactor or other such places.

oh and +1 vinyls. I am starting to make a collection of those myself.

[AEnima18]

Napster all over again...