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Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
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Soulskill
on Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:44 PM
from the if-you-can't-beat-'em dept.
from the if-you-can't-beat-'em dept.
mlingojones writes "TorrentFreak breaks the news of The Pirate Bay's acquisition by Warner Bros: 'After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.'"
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Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
Well, that's the end of that.
Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
In the agreement, TPB will pay RIAA/MPAA a licensing fee for every song they sell. RIAA/MPAA lawyers hailed the deal as ground breaking.
TPB managed to keep a straight face long enough to get out of the room before laughing themselves silly at the RIAA/MPAA stupidity!
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Insightful)
Step 1: Agree to pay the RIAA/MPAA's "protection" fees (retroactively, of course)
Step 2: Agree to the deal where WB takes control of your company (both assets and liabilities)
Step 3: Profit?!!
(As WB now has to pay out all of it's cash-on-hand to the RIAA/MPAA)
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
Haha, yes, I fell for it. Would you believe the "I haven't had my coffee yet" defense?
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
Huh? Are you sayign it's a joke? I just went to http://thepiratebay.org/ [thepiratebay.org] and it's confirmed there...I don't think an april fooler could hack into their site and change it.
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and they said (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm living on the wrong land mass.
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Insightful)
See, back in the day, /. used to come up with one really good original April Fool's joke. It was like they crafted it over the course of a month or two, then popped it on an unsuspecting crowd. It was elegant, it was funny and it suckered lots and lots of people.
That evolved into the new philosophy of the past few years which is "if one really good joke was great, how about a bunch of really lame ones?" It's quantity over quality which, I guess, is what we want now.
I miss the old /.
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
I miss the ponies!
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Informative)
With this extension [mozilla.org] you can relive OMG!!! Ponies!!! every day. Just go into the options and change the default style to OMG!!! Ponies!!!
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Re:Oh well (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
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The "Evil Bit" isn't a slashdot original, they were reporting on RFC 3514 [rfc-editor.org].
Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
you believe this?
Why not, in order to be an april fools joke, humor would have to be involved, therefore I can only conclude that this is seriousness.
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Re:Oh well (Score:4, Insightful)
Duh! The point of an April fool's is to play along, not to show how "clever" you are by spotting it (playing along is much cleverer than that...)
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Re:Oh well (Score:5, Funny)
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Seriously, guys... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Seriously, guys... (Score:5, Informative)
Gotta ask...what the hell does that mean? Something is 'pants'?? Never heard that one before.
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Re:Seriously, guys... (Score:5, Informative)
Crap. Shit. Stupid. Boring. Onanistic. Take your pick.
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Re:Seriously, guys... (Score:4, Informative)
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I believe it stems from British English. They call pants trousers, and underwear pants. I also believe that pants is used as a somewhat general derogatory there.
Re:Seriously, guys... (Score:5, Funny)
Ah..that explains it.
Even if I knew British English....I'd not get it, since I go 'commando'.
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Re:Seriously, guys... (Score:5, Funny)
I believe pants to be an evil dichotomy.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Re:Seriously, guys... (Score:5, Informative)
"Stop it. Please. April Fools is pants."
Gotta ask...what the hell does that mean? Something is 'pants'?? Never heard that one before.
It's a colloquialism in British English that's used as a rough synonym for bollocks\crap\rubbish\arse.
Pants in British English are underwear instead of trousers, hence the negative connotations.
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Re:Seriously, guys... (Score:4, Insightful)
Stop it. Please. April Fools is pants.
That's what I love about the Brits. Yes, we Yanks/Americans get all the crap for not speaking English properly. Yet somehow our Canadian friends to the north, who except for a few odd British spellings (colour) and a few strange words (ever sat on a Winchester? It's not a gun.) say almost the same thing as we do with an accent that's close to ours, yet they escape condemnation. And don't get me started on the Aussies, who would probably say some crap like this:
Apfo pan
and we'd be expected to know that means "April Fools is pants".
But I digress. Really, you have to love the Brits. According to one source I found, saying that something "is pants" means it's of poor quality. So instead of saying
April Fools is lame
or
April Fools' is tired (note the apostrophe because the day is April Fools' Day with an apostrophe)
they have to tell us that "it's pants", which somehow we non-Brits will all magically know. For shizzle my nizzle.
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That would turn into... (Score:3, Funny)
This is one of the better April Fools jokes I've seen.
It's about time (Score:5, Funny)
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Honestly this is the whole reason for the lawsuits. It was to devalue TPB so that WB or one of the other big media groups could purchase them on the cheap. I can't believe no one saw this coming.
Well, they are a dot com that is borderline legality in its own country, and they don't make any money. I'm surprised they didn't get bought out in 2000.
Next on the block? Sony (Score:5, Funny)
Not a bad idea (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not a bad idea (Score:4, Interesting)
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13.37 Billion... (Score:3, Informative)
Thats one 1337 way to close the shop!
In an unrelated news, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In an unrelated news, (Score:5, Funny)
In an unrelated news, Stallman has just announced that he's joining Microsoft.
in related news, windows 7 goes open source.
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Re:In an unrelated news, (Score:5, Funny)
More breaking news: Darl McBride announced that he's going to throw his weight behind linux; "If you can't beat'em, join'em." he declared in a surprise announcement from amidst the still smoking ruins of SCO's headquarters.
He was hospitalized shortly afterward in critical condition due to what appears to be injuries inflicted by an office chair.
SB
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April Fools banner ads? (Score:2)
bedeebedeebedeeTHAT'S ALL FOLKS! (Score:3, Funny)
Keew da wabbit keew da wabbit...
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I'm starting to miss the omgponies (Score:2)
Bring back the pink omgponies!
posting in the(?) april fools story (Score:2)
Achievement whoring, it has started.
Gawd, that's not even funny (Score:3, Insightful)
today's april fool is tomorrow's fact (Score:3, Insightful)
Remember when Napster sold itself to the music industry. That was originally an April fool's story, before it became real. Then there was the April fool's story about taxpayers paying off all the mortgages in the world.
Great detective work there (Score:3, Insightful)
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There are reasons I don't read Slashdot on 4/1. This is only one of them.
Something about your post is... impossible.