There’s no surer sign that a previously controversial, underground operation will be dead within the year than news that it has been purchased for a substantial sum of money, and the new owner wants to go legit. It’s best to read the announcement about file-sharing rogues The Pirate Bay’s sale to Global Gaming Factory X while considering how many legal bills $7.8 million can pay off, and how comfortably founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström will be able to live once they complete one year prisoner terms for stepping on the toes of the copyright barons.
The Pirate Bay millions knew and enjoyed may soon be but a memory, but it will live on the pizza-clogged hearts of shut-in nerds who, finding this latest turn of events unacceptable, will rise up and give the world a replacement… just as soon as they finish another 200 rounds of multiplayer combat on XBox Live.
