The Pirate Bay sold for $6.7M US, goes legit.
The Pirate Bay, the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker and a top 100 website, is in the process of selling itself to a software company. Maybe the constant legal battles have caused the founders to throw in the towel, or maybe it is the fact that they will end up going to jail shortly due to a major legal loss, but this sale comes as a major surprise.
One thing The Pirate Bay has consistently preached was independence. With the purchase by Global Gaming Factory X, and the implementation of a “new business model”, it seems that all The Pirate Bay once stood for is long since gone. Before you know it, The Pirate Bay will be synonymous with Napster as they fade into Internet history.
Remember that North Korean Ship the U.S. was tracking?
Sometime within the last two weeks the U.S. started tracking a North Korean ship suspected of carry weapons banned by the U.N. anti-proliferation resolution. I feel this was a sign to North Korea that the U.S. wasn’t going to sit around as they continued to flaunt laws in the face of the U.N, as well as a test to see just how committed China was to dealing with North Korea.
Well, the Kang Nam – the ship the U.S. was tracking – has turned around, leaving the world questioning where is the ship going and what is the next step in the game of Maritime chess. The shit has been at sea for nearly two weeks at this point, eventually it will need to refuel. When that time comes where will it find safe harbor and will the U.S. find a way to board it at that time?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says political overthrow has failed
Since the massive and bloody riots at Baharestan Square, very little news has come out of Iran regarding the uprising. From what I can tell – reading the Twitter, Facebook and blog posts of those in in Iran – the revolution has all but come to an end.
Today Mahmood Ahmadinejad stated the overthrow driven by “political enemies of Iran” has failed:
“The enemies were not able to reach their objectives for the soft overthrow of the system,” he said, according to the semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency, or ILNA. “The enemy is pursuing the objective of undermining the nation’s capabilities after the 85% turnout at the polls.”
And so, life goes on… sad from my perspective. Not because of a specific outcome but because the people of Iran have, apparently, been robbed of their ability to determine their future.
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