The BBC announced that the Global Gaming Factory was purchasing the Pirate Bay, the infamous file-sharing website which has recently been in legal trouble. For 60 million kronor. Which is 4.7 million pounds. Which is approximately a billion U.S. dollars, or one ABBA. Their idea is to pay file-sharers for file-sharing, thereby making it totally and completely legal. Also, really really boring.
I don’t know what the Global Gaming Factory is, barring the obvious fact that it manufactures obesity, they apparently missed the memo that a place paid for sharing things is called a store. A store. On the internet. The last thing the internet needs is more stores. You can buy anything on the internet, as evidenced by Frankie, my cooking penguin. Also, Dateline reports on child trafficking.
This will make Pirate Bay join an esteemed group of casualties in the category of things that used to be cool and free, such as YouTube, Napster, and parking in the shade. You know, YouTube. Before, when you could click on a music video and it would actually play the music the video went to, instead of doves and Yanni. With half of the internets bandwidth going to pirating materials, do they think this will lower the number of respective e-criminals? Yes. Are they wrong? Absolutely. But the creators of Pirate Bay don’t need to worry anymore. Now they have ABBA. Or can at least hire them.
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