Comments on: Pirate Bay exec no longer compares RIAA to Stalin

Wayne Rosso, the former Grokster president, is trying to sign content deals for new Pirate Bay and has had a change of heart about RIAA.

[fmcentire]

hahaha, such a change of heart for the pirate bay. I guess they decided it wasn't worth fighting for.

[monkeyfun14]

No they were bought out.

[umbrae]

Yeah TPB is gone. Only the name exists.

[ÆL]

All I got to say is this is a failure from the start.

I don't know what crack Rosso has been smoking but trying to charge pirate bay users isn't going to work... the way that site worked was people gave willingly to receive willingly. Pirate Bay was (and for a user base anyway still is) a clan, a group; It was build by Internet users for Internet users --- not by corporations. When you force people to pay, not by there choice it will fail...

The users will go elsewhere and share the content via what we like best, ad based internet downloads. As for the RFID there is a reason they are the most hated consumer company... what other organization attacks the very customers that give them money?
http://consumerist.com/consumer/worst-company-in-america/worst-company-in-america-2007-final-deathmatch-244408.php

[jtjj1234]

To be honest, I actually quite like this idea. I'm a college student and so electricity and **** like that isn't much of a big deal to me...but if i'm able to leave my computer on all night and be able to defray say...80% of the original charge- i'd be more than willing to pay to get all my music legally.

Of course, this is coming from a guy who has 214gb of music...and desperately wants his entire collection to be of the highest quality.

[monkeyfun14]

214gb's of music? I mean just music? Damn you have a wide variety of tastes.

[umbrae]

RIP Pirate Bay. We will miss you.

[contentcreator--2008]

I'm sure this will go over well with ISPs... we've taken all your capacity, why don't you buy it back from us?

[techie2479]

What's the deal with the censorship? The guy dropped an f-bomb, and cnet is a legitimate, upstanding news outlet - you shouldn't have to mask the remarks of interviewees in fear of offending or alienating readers. We're grown ups; we can take it.

[monkeyfun14]

How many people that are "grown up" around here is debatable.

[techie2479]

@monkeyfun114 - good point.

[maker99]

What about other types of content ? He is talking only about music but if you check out pirate bay you will see that music is only a small portion of all the content provided ....

So what about that ? Will they delete it all, close the system and distribute only music they "upload" ?

[sandonet]

You're right. They want to pursue deals with movie studios and e-Books, any creator of digital media. I'll add that. Thanks.

[Sam Papelbon]

wayne rosso is being nice to the riaa/mpaa because he's already working out a deal to sell the logs of user downloads to them.

[RelayProductions]

Well.. if times get tough he could always become a William Shatner impersonator.

[Please use care when sele]

<em>Half of the Internet traffic is file sharing and half of that traffic is Pirate Bay.</em>

Yeah sure, and that Pirate Bay traffic is certainly not going down after they charge money for it... People go the the Pirate Bay because they want FREE free. If they were willing to pay for their movies, TV-shows, music and warez they would go elsewhere.

Good luck Mr. Bainwol, I don't think you're going to be rich anytime soon.

[themusicvoidcom]

Read the full, opinionated story from Mr Rosso's blog here: http://bit.ly/3tvT1g

[magicmaster]

Hmmm, Mr.Rosso finally sold his freedom of speech to RIAA.

[C1234567890]

I'm amazed Wayne Rosso can even give an interview with all their ***** in his mouth.

[dyingdemon]

ha man this is funny this is just another way to try and make money on the constant decline of a site :/
personally i see the logic i myself am a registered member of the pirate group and can see teh logic on both sides
there's the user: WE the user get to download and (watch/listen/play/read) whatever we wish for free at HUGE speeds (i can actually download at my fibers full speed with some of these torrents) and the thing is over 80% of these ppl who download (pirate) this data usually go out and buy it or make a contribution to the market if they like it. if they dont they just delete it there ya go problem solved no money lost.
now for the
CONTENT PROVIDER/CORPS : WE the corps and provider need money to keep doing what we doing to make a living and to provide even better material
these ppl (pirates) steal from us taking away our very life flow
and now these providers and such now see that there is a chance to put money back into their pocket by removing a huge threat (TPB)
but then they notice that if they remove it that things will get even worse for them
the users will go from pirating to buy
to full pirate
(if anyone notices this is like the whole internet radio station dispute)
you have a place that provides copyrighted material to a user base who then go and buy the item if they like it (of course there are exceptions no form is perfect)
so a middle man is brought in
you can have your free downloads (hopefully still some illegal ;) ) but to do so you must take some of the strain off of us by giving up some of your resources
so basically its reached a midway consensus (you scratch my back (providers and corps) and we scratch yours (users)
now really i think more info needs to be brought up souch as how much gets taken off for how much system resources
also
the need to rethink the whole selling computing power to other ppl thing
if i am to give up some of my resources for this
I WILL NOT SETTLE FOR ANYTHING OTHER THE TPB i am not signing for that some other company can get the power
but seriously if they make it for TPB only and lets say i give up like 30 gigs of my hdd
and a little extra stuff
imagine if every one did that
basically the TPB would no longer be centralized and could not be sued as you would have to sue some 3million ppl
and imagine if this catches on
and ppl get tired of paying
hehehe just have someone else create a server which does the same thing
and give them the info
now TAADAA you just cut this new TPB's feet out and started a new one that was founded on a free internet dream
ill be honest im gonna stick around just to see what happens
but if they whole we will sell comp power thing does not change and no more info is brought out
i think ill help this new TPB iv been hearing about who actually is doing exactly what the offical tpb is doing but for free
but good luck tpb yoru gonna need it