Metalscape: The Metal Podcast » downloading http://www.metalpodcast.net Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:38:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Pirate Bay to Begin Charging Users http://www.metalpodcast.net/2009/07/pirate-bay-to-begin-charging-users/ http://www.metalpodcast.net/2009/07/pirate-bay-to-begin-charging-users/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:28:32 +0000 Zach http://www.metalpodcast.net/2009/07/18/pirate-bay-to-begin-charging-users/ Global Gaming Factory (The company which recently bought the infamous tracker) has announced that they will begin a subscription based model in the near future.

They say that revenue from subscription fees and ad-revenue (wait, I get to pay a fee and still get a bunch of porn ads? SWEET!) will be used to pay off copyright holders. They also say that users who contribute more of their bandwidth to seeding will receive reduced fees (even free).

Now I’m not exactly opposed to file sharing, but I do have a problem when these companies accept money claiming to support copyright holders but in reality, they don’t. I hope that this doesn’t turn out like another AllOfMP3, I used that service big time and I knew it was too good to be true.

Although to be honest, I have a bit more faith in the swedish than I do in those damn ruskis.


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