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There is a translation of some of the feed on torrentfreak (emphasis added is mine - there may be more to this than meets the eye.)

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sold-to-software-comp...

Daniel Goldberg: @ brokep Is this correct? http://bit.ly/1YR0m

Peter S Kolmisoppi: @ danielg0ldberg Yes.

Daniel Goldberg: @ brokep What a thing! Who gets the money? Who owns the TPB?

Peter S Kolmisoppi: @ danielg0ldberg Foreign company, with demands from our side to finance a fund for internet projects. We get no money.

Daniel Goldberg: @ brokep Cool. What do you mean internet project? Will you not have to use the money to cover the damages?

Peter S Kolmisoppi: @ danielg0ldberg Internet Project in the form of political activism, etc. TPB changed hands in 2006 already to not be sued.

Daniel Goldberg @ brokep Congratulations, the scoop! Who is the owner of TPB today?

Peter S Kolmisoppi: @ danielg0ldberg It’s partly why we’ve have been so sure that lawsuits against us is pointless in the end … :-)

Peter S Kolmisoppi: @ danielg0ldberg I do not think that I may say for legal reasons. But they are people we trust. And have conditioned things too..

One must be a fool to believe that they don't get any money at all...

The foreign company certainly belongs to them, and they are trying to cash out twice (once by selling their company and by getting donations from their loyal supporters).

And even if the site belongs to a different party, they are running the site and are responsible doing the copyright violations. You can also not hide behind a company when you are commiting murder.

They committed murder? Providing links to copyrighted material may be considered bad by a lower court in Sweden, but you really can't compare it with murder.

Please learn to read before you write (kleiner PB Lemming). I didn't say they commited murder. I did just say that it doesn't matter if what they did was under the umbrella of a company or not. It is illegal, as it is illegal to commit murder, to print money if you have not the autorization, or to haress somebody etc...

2 things (just so you know why your getting downmodded :))

Firstly the flow of the original sentence referring to murder read as if you were suggesting they were quilty of commiting murder.

Secondly, yes you can hide behinda company - to an extent. In actual fact no one seems ot know the real owners of the site. Brokep and co. maintain it but since 2006 the owner, and thus the person most likely liable, is unknown.

(I have bets on it being someones dog or something)

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