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The new owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files.Global Gaming Factory (GGF) paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, GGF's Hans Pandeya said that the only way to beat illegal file-sharing was to make something more attractive.
"We're talking about next-gen file sharing so you can create revenue from storage and internet traffic optimisation," he said.
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Making Pirate Bay completely disassociated from pirating is a great idea. I would love to discuss it further but I have to go and teach this pig to fly.
"Let's say a popular song comes out. Rather than a million downloads from a site - which would cause a considerable strain on that ISP - we can take that song and put it out on P2P network."
So it kind of relies on the record/movie companies to play along and push out their songs/movies? I'd think a one time payment would not suffice for them, they'd want certified records of the number of downloads and payments for every.single.one. Forever.
And now you have everyone that trades illegal files for free uploading illegal files, claiming copyright, and being paid for it; how will they control this?
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So it kind of relies on the record/movie companies to play along and push out their songs/movies? I'd think a one time payment would not suffice for them, they'd want certified records of the number of downloads and payments for every.single.one. Forever.
maybe they're hoping to use filesharing just for distribution of DRMed files, basically just improving the speed and helping the online shops get rid of their servers and high bandwidth cost. I doubt he meant "paying" only the original uploader, but rather everyone who shares the file, thus giving bandwidth.
