Pirate Bay 2.0: Pay Pirates to Become Consumers

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wired.com The Swedish gaming executive who’s gambling nearly $8 million buying The Pirate Bay is convinced he can turn the 20 million users of the world’s most notorious file sharing site into well-behaved consumers — even amid a deluge of account-deletion requests. “Some file-sharers don’t like all this money talk, and they’re leaving,” acknowledged Hans Pandeya, chief executive of the Global Gaming Factory, in a telephone interview with Wired.com on Wednesday.

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